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That is BS. No other fighter in the UFC has an issue with releasing a submission as soon as the ref steps in, but Palhares has had an issue on more than one occasion now.
If this was his first offense, he would have received a warning. Palhares is a repeat offender and needs to stop with this garbage. It's bad for the sport and ultimately bad for his career. You think the UFC is going to put a guy with a history of stupid, injury-risking actions in a fight with GSP?
The funny thing is that everyone is chanting this mantra of, "not until the ref steps in". Well, he didn't stop when the ref intervened. Still, you don't have to hold on until then, you can just let go when he taps (or at least when he yells in this case).
How many false taps have we had since Bustamante / Lidland? I really can't think of any. We've had the ref call a few 'technical submissions' like Danzig / Wiman, but that was the refs bad call, not the fighters. Hell, a title just changed hands for the first time in almost a decade due to arm-bar and the ref didn't even see the tap - but Pettis still let go; he got a nice championship belt out of it too.