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Dean Lister vs Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares Super Fight Hype Video

 

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This is the Grappling match everyone has wanted to see! The 2 best Leg Lock Artists in the game today finally meet at this years World BJJ Expo in Long Beach California, convention center on the 9th and 10th November 2013. Don’t miss this 20 minute submission only super fight!!!

Dean Lister

(February 13, 1976) is an American mixed martial artist and a former King of the Cage Middleweight Champion. He currently fights at the Middleweight division after moving down from the Light Heavyweight class. Lister’s sparring partner and the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Tito Ortiz invited Lister to be his assistant grappling coach on the third season of the Spike TV reality show, The Ultimate Fighter. Lister won the 2003 ADCC Absolute World championship and was the 2005 Superfight champion, defeating Jean Jacques Machado. He claimed the World Champion gold medal again in 2011 in the under 99 kg division by submitting João Assis in the final by a heel hook. He also submitted jiu-jitsu world champion Rodolfo Vieira, in his weight division, also with a heel hook.

Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares

(born February 20, 1980) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. His nickname Toquinho, Portuguese for “little tree stump”, comes from his short, stocky, heavily muscled build. 11 of his 15 wins have come by way of submission, with a notable concentration on leg submissions.
Palhares grew up in abject poverty in the Brazilian countryside. He recalls working in the fields to help support his family as young as age seven and said that there were times where there was not enough food for everyone. He eventually had to leave his shanty and move underneath a local bridge in a tent city slum.
He claimed the Fury Fighting Championship middleweight title in December 2007 after defeating Flavio Mura, Pan-Am Jiu-Jitsu champion Fabio Negao, and Chute Boxe’s Daniel Acacio in a tournament.
Palhares earned his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under former UFC Middleweight Champion Murilo Bustamante and Bebeo Duarte. Experts in martial arts touted Palhares as one of the most naturally gifted grapplers today.
Having spent his entire early career competing in Brazil, Palhares’ first bout outside his home country was in the United States at UFC 84. He is considered to be one of the best in the world at leg locks, such as the heel hook and kneebar. Palhares took 2nd place in the under 88 kg 2011 ADCC, finishing his first three opponents quickly with leg locks, before losing to established World Champion Andre Galvao in the final, by points.