Posted: Fri October 11, 2013 10:13PM; Updated: Fri October 11,
2013 10:12PM Jeff Wagenheim Jeff Wagenheim>INSIDE MMA  UFC right
to release Rousimar Palhares for inexcusable thuggery  Decrease
font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font Rousimar Palhares
was released from his UFC contract after ignoring a tapout
Wednesday. Rousimar Palhares (bottom) was released from his UFC
contract after repeatedly ignoring a tapout Wednesday. Jeff
Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images  Someone could get hurt.  That
might seem an odd, almost comically ironic bit of reasoning to
support levying punishment upon an athlete for his brutal
actions in a sport that is all about punching and kicking and
choking, about scrambled gray matter and hard-boiled
altercation. But amid all of the chest thumping, we cannot lose
sight of the unassailable truth that what happens at a UFC event
is sport, not some disorderly brawl in a grim, grubby alleyway.
And what Rousimar Palhares did inside the octagon Wednesday
night in Barueri, Brazil, was not s