Lance Palmer sticks by Team Alpha Male, looks to regain WSOF title

When Team Alpha Male was beset by turmoil late last year, Lance Palmer considered jumping ship.

The well-documented departure of former UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw from Urijah Faber’s Sacramento gym turned into one of mixed martial arts’ loudest and longest-running soap operas. One which ultimately had a spillover effect onto the rest of the gym’s roster.

In Palmer’s case, he was pressed into cornering Paige VanZant, Chad Mendes, and Faber in Las Vegas during the three-shows-in-three-nights run leading up to UFC 194 — just one week before Palmer himself was scheduled to defend his World Series of Fighting featherweight title in Sin City against Alexandre Almeida.

Palmer lost his title to Almeida in an upset, and found himself pondering his future after the bizarre turn of events.

“It was a pretty messed up time,” Palmer told MMAFighting.com. “I should have been winding down my training camp for my title defense, getting ready to cut weight, and all that, and instead I’m flying out to Vegas and back home and then back out to Vegas again. I was just completely mentally drained, I had no mental energy, and it showed that night in the cage. I know things just couldn’t keep going on like that.”

Palmer, a four-time All-American wrestler at …

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