Alessio Sakara vs. Rousimar Palhares Added to TUF 10 Finale
A middleweight matchup between Alessio Sakara and Rousimar Palhares has been booked for The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale on December 5 in Las Vegas, Tatame reports.
The fight between Sakara and Palhares was originally scheduled to take place at UFC 99 in June, then was shifted to UFC 101 on August 8. An broken leg forced Palhares out of the fight, while Sakara remained on the card, defeating Thales Leites by split decision.
Sakara (12-7) is 2-1 since dropping down to middleweight last year, losing his 185-pound debut to Chris Leben before picking up back-to-back wins over Joe Vedepo and Leites.
Palhares (9-2) is 2-1 since debuting with the UFC last year, defeating Ivan Salaverry and, most-recently in January, Jeremy Horn, while suffering a loss to Dan Henderson last September.
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Pictured: Alessio Sakara
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Paul Harris via armbar in the first. The guy has got some great submissions but that’s it.
Agreed.
Sakara is going to get hooked and submitted while guys are still scoring their beers from the concession stand…
see I don’t get that, when I got to an event I watch every fight, from the prelims to the Main Event, I just have never understood why you wouldn’t want to see the prelims some of the better fights happen there… owell there is a penny of a thought for ya
Sakara getting submitted will be a lot harder than people think, guy has only been submitted twice and once was to Lister. He usually only has issues with big hitters and has the submission defense to hold guys off and try to grind out a decision if he has to.
@ fr702 – I agree 100%
One of the reasons I bring a boy or two along when I go to live events, other than the company, is to have someone fetch the cold and golds while I watch everything from the tech guys do their pre-event final checks to the maintainance guy scrub the mat clean after the show ends…
@ chrisl – you may be right, but I just don’t think that Sakara has successfully faced a submission grappler at Palhares’ level…
hahaha you have people “fetch” you stuff hahahaha you must be an important man
jchol, you pay for the ticket and I’ll fetch b33rs all night long, I might even through in some popcorn
Leites… even if you argue Leites should have won, he didn’t officially.
Sakara does train with some of the worlds best submission grapplers in the world though at ATT.
on the the fetching issue… so your buddies are your “dogs” in more than one sense of the word
Sorry guys.
Maybe fetch was a poor choice of words, but y’know…I don’t want to miss anything in the cage.
And yeah, there have been times when I’ve spotted one of my crew if he was short and really wanted to go to a live event. There is always a time when you’re flush and your boy isn’t, and vice versa, so we try to look after each other.
Although if some of these guys don’t straighten up and fly right, they’re going to get replaced by some of the frenZied…
I was like “who the hell is ‘Paul Harris’?”.
chrisl-Leites did win,he just got ‘officially’ screwed over.And how come Sakara pulled a ‘Kalib Starnes’ in that fight and nobody says chit about it?
All that matters is who ended up with the W hence why Leites is gone and Sakara has another fight.
Also under the current criteria…
Round 1- Sakara stops two shots by Leites and hurting Leites briefly on the 2nd one 10-9 Sakara
Round 2- Leites wins the round hands down 10-9 Leites
Round 3- Leites fails on 2 shots, Sakara throws combos that are blocked but makes him appear to do something. Leites scores a takedown at the end and while he gets his back but Sakara scores with the escape. The only thing Leites scores with is the take down but he was unable to maintain a dominant position. The round could go either way but obviously it went against Leites.
Leites has no beef though he didn’t finish the fight. You have to be more than one dimensional. Sakara at least fought back up to his feet and avoided takedowns while attempting to put together combos. Leites effectively struck in one round only and the rest was just takedown attempts that Sakara defended for the most part. Leites never attempted a legitimate submission anywhere in the fight and if you are going to try to stick to the “takedown and work from there” offense you better either ground and pound or work submissions. Leites was only able to legitimately work any G and P in one round.
Sakara did enough not to lose and Leites didn’t do enough to win.
Ha Ha Ha,Are you serious?
nope I wrote that out as a joke…
i like the way u judged the fight bro thats exactly the way i saw it
I was hoping you were joking.
Do you really think that the Sakara fight is why Leites is gone?Do you know what his UFC record is?
How many take downs did Sakara have?How much G n P did Sakara do?How many submission attempts did Sakara have?Who was the aggressor in the fight?I’m not really a fan of either fighter but come on dude,at least be objective about it.
Yes I do believe that’s why Leites is gone, he practically signed his own death warrant in the Silva fight. Add into the fact that it was in fact the weakest fight on the card and the loser was going to be on alert. The fact that Leites in many eyes helped set the sport back (mainstream wise) for his part in the Silva debacle already put him on the chopping block. Combine that with a loss in a lack luster fight and yes you’re gone. I’d like to see him again but his game plans have been so one dimensional it’s like he thinks this is Abu Dhabi. It’s like after the fight with Marquardt he’s afraid to exchange.
Also how am I not being objective about any of it? What in my analysis of the fight is bias? My point is you are only viewing one side of the criteria for scoring.
If anything you aren’t being objective, remember takedowns do not mean anything unless you do something with them this isn’t wrestling. Plus Sakara blocked the majority of the takedowns. Also ask yourself the reasons why would a striker try to take down a BJJ black belt? There are very few. For all the great work Leites did in the second he didn’t do enough to WIN in the first and third. Leites may have been aggressive in those rounds but his aggression was for the most part stopped. Sakara fought a defensive fight and was successful in defending, but also still threw enough combos and got enough escapes to keep scoring.
Also everything you bring up Leites did in the second round only. The first round went to Sakara but the third was a coin flip. If Leites maintains or improves his position he wins the fight with that takedown but because Sakara escapes(and it wasn’t the result of Leites letting him up) he has the last thing the judges see as scoring. In a close fight that will win you the fight 75% of the time.
The judges have backgrounds on these fighters they for the most part know the styles, so whose to say they aren’t going to find it odd that a BJJ black belt cannot hold down a boxer. Better yet that it is odd a boxer defended most of the takedowns of a ground ace. Also why did a ground ace not attempt a submission. ALL of this plays into a decision by anyone judging the fight.
Ha Ha,OK man.We’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
p.s.- one judge did have it 30/27