Palhares looks forward to shaking Shields’ foot, offers Metamoris rematch
“If I do end up hurting you, it won’t be because I hate you. It’s just because this is MMA, and people don’t tap, like you probably won’t, until they are hurt!”
WSoF welterweight contender Jake Shields has promised to take out the knees of division champion Rousimar Palhares, and teach him a lesson. Palhares was not impressed, and responded to Shields in an open letter he sent exclusively to MMAJunkie.
Hey Jake? How are you? My manager, Alex Davis told me about and translated what you said to MMAjunkie about me, how I am a monster, how you are going to hurt me and so forth. I don’t know how you come to think in this way about me considering we have never even actually met. But I get it – you want to make yourself the hero who submits the bad guy! No hard feelings. You need to justify yourself, and you should certainly talk it up now, because after the fight, I guess there won’t be much that you will want to talk about!
And listen, if I do end up hurting you, it won’t be because I hate you. It’s just because this is MMA, and people don’t tap – like you probably won’t – until they are hurt! So guess what? I’ll give you a rematch in Metamoris if they will have us, and you can try again to defend my ankle and leg locks.
Different then you, I have nothing bad to say about you. I will come into this fight, as I come into all of them, with respect for my opponent and wanting to win as fast and as definitively as I can. I look forward to seeing you Jake, and shaking your hand – or rather your foot!
Rousimar Palhares fights Jake Shields in the main event of WSOF 22, on Aug. 1, at Las Vegas’ Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, live on NBCSN.