Comments on: Parisyan suspended nine months; UFC 94 win overturned

By: PlagueAngel

PlagueAngel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:27:30 +0000

To what I said before, I believe Karo thinks he is the “king of the UFC”. He believes he can say and do whatever he pleases. Look at MMA Live and Ultimate Fighter and the way he made a fool of himself on TV. His arrogance bleeds all over everyone on a professional level of the sport. It makes me crazy angry that people put him in their top 10 welterweights when he clearly is not in shape and barely wins against newer fighters. His arrogance comes into the ring and he believes because he is “Karo the veteran” that he will win. The pills is just the beginning, we will see a meltdown on camera in no time. He almost had a meltdown on ESPNs MMA Live for christ sakes…and he won the fight!

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By: mu_shin

mu_shin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:50:50 +0000

There was discussion at the time of the fight that Parisyan had been recovering from a hamstring tear. I thought I remembered reading that the commentators thought he still showed hematomas on one of his legs where he’d been injured.

I believe in this case Parisyan was using pain killers just to allow him to enter the octagon and fight. If you’ve ever torn a hamstring, it is a whole new experience of pain. Agree with the comments above, opiate derivatives offer no performance enhancing qualities, but for a fighter hobbled with a torn biceps femoris, it could allow him to at least perform at some minimal level, as Karo did that evening. I thought at the time that Kim had done enough to win, but it was not a clear cut decisive victory.

As a pro fighter, I just have to assume Parisyan needed the payday, and did what he thought he had to do to make it into the ring. Now he forfeits a good part of his purse, has the victory stripped from his record, and cannot fight for a further nine months. Good logic there, Karo…

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By: BigDave

BigDave — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:11:36 +0000

Good for the NSAC they overturned the decision due to pain killers which are banned substance bottom line it the right call.

Besides in my opinion Kim easily won that fight anyway and got screwed on the decision so all is right now.

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By: redgreen3b1

redgreen3b1 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:23:44 +0000

I like Karo, but that DONG dude is an exciting fighter. His first fight in the UFC was fucking Awsome.

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By: redgreen3b1

redgreen3b1 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:20:11 +0000

I have a bone disease and I take MS Contin. It’s like Oxycontin. I certainly would not gain any advantage in a fight. I really don’t think a professional could gain any advantage either.

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By: Cathedron

Cathedron — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:41:27 +0000

Wow. I guess they are looking to make an example of him or something. I can’t help but agree with their ruling. After all, I wanted to see him suspended and fined just for being that boring. He basically just stalled his way to victory. It was the judo version of lay-n-pray. Hug-n-pray?

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By: PlagueAngel

PlagueAngel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:51:43 +0000

Karo is an arrogant person and maybe he needs to be humble. Did anyone check out his after fight interview on MMA Live recently? He is still a jerk to everyone and continues to believe he is one of the top fighters in the world. He used these pills because he believes he can do anything he wants because “Karo is the king of the planet”. My day has just gotton much better!

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By: Goomba

Goomba — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:45:55 +0000

They seem to randomly pick which fights to overturn. They need a consistent base saying if a fighter wins with an illegal substance, the fight will (or will not) be overturned.

Although, in this case I can’t complain because I felt Kim won the fight anyway. Seems justice is (almost) served for Kim.

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By: Sergio Hernandez

Sergio Hernandez — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:41:46 +0000

“and this substance was approved before the fight.”

Did you even read the article? Karo didn’t divulge anything until after the fight in a “Oh, by the way, IF my piss comes back blah blah blah” manner.

And what does it matter if it’s changed to No Contest?

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By: cocoonofhorror

cocoonofhorror — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:29:03 +0000

shits weak. NSAC has shit-for-brains to overturn the victory. even their doctors will tell you it does more harm than good for a fighter, and this substance was approved before the fight.

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By: GetItOn

GetItOn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:27:32 +0000

This is total BS. I’m not a very big Parysan fan but NSAC will overturn a win based on pain killers and not steroids? I know they were looking to change the rules on this and hopefully all fights from here on out will be overturned if any drugs are used. Seriously though, pain killers? Whatever I guess.

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By: KTru

KTru — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:54:15 +0000

Makes him feel less pain…..

Good to see they overturned the fight, Kim did win it.

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By: Angry Mike

Angry Mike — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:59:08 +0000

I’ll defer to any fighters out there, but I don’t see how pain killers would help Parisyan fight. They depress the central nervous system and it seems they’d make him lethargic or woozy. I wonder if they helped calm his nerves.

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