UFC 134 Fallout: Palhares Camp Says Miller Verbally Submitted, Miller Camp Denies

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One of the stranger fights on this weekend’s UFC 134 card was Rousimar Palhares vs. Dan Miller. The Spike TV prelim fight was seemingly stopped, with Miller finished but the fight eventually continued. It made for an awkward moment on the card; now some brewing controversy is coming out of both camps.

First off, Murilo Bustamante shed some light on this via his Twitter account:

@dudutatame @AnaHissa @portaldovt @graciemag_br He told me that he stoped bc his opponent said “stop stop” when he was punching him hard…less than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet Reply

Sherdog then got a statement from Miller’s camp:

“Dan assures me he did not say a word during that exchange,” Constantino wrote in an email to Sherdog.com. “Needless to say that with the loud crowd, the language barrier, the adrenaline rush and every other factor involved — including ‘do not stop until the ref pulls you off’ — I do not believe that Toquinho pulled up because of Dan murmuring ‘stop, stop.’ The fact remains that Dan Miller did not say ‘stop, stop’ — there is no need to argue the toughness and mettle of Dan Miller, however I just have to put the facts on the table after hearing this.”

While Miller did not appear to protest the “stoppage” as he stood back up and walked to his corner, Constantino said that was only because the 30-year-old believed the fight had actually been stopped.

“He could not see and by Toquinho’s reaction, Dan assumed Herb stopped the fight,” wrote Constantino. “Once he heard us screaming to turn around and the fight wasn’t stopped, he ran across the Octagon to continue fighting.”

This isn’t the first Palhares has had an odd result mid-match, protesting that Nate Marquardt had been greasing at Ultimate Fight Night 22. Marquardt would seize on this to stop the Brazilian via strikes then.