The former WSOF featherweight champion punched his ticket to the playoffs with a third-round submission finish of UFC veteran Jumabieke Tuerxun on Thursday night in the main event of PFL 4 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. A four-time NCAA All-American, Palmer (14-3) used his bread-and-butter wrestling to dominate Tuerxun (20-8) from the opening bell. The 30-year-old American scored takedowns in all three rounds, then closed out the show with a nasty stoppage via neck crank at 3:43 of the final frame.
“It was a neck crank similar to what I did a few years ago against (Chris) Horodecki, but I was underneath this time and not on top flattening him out,” Palmer said.