Wow, what an exciting fight between Sanchez and Parisyan!
I did think it would go that way though. I've always gotten the impression that while Diego is awesome, he "shouldn't be as good as he is," so to speak. I mean nothing but good things by that - that he has tremendous faith in himself and worked his ass off to get there.
By contrast, although Karo is clearly outstanding and has also worked hard, I've felt that based on his competition history that he has been a bit disfocused and relied an awful lot on sheer talent - of which he has a great amount.
It brought to mind to me one of Rhadi's favorite adages: "Hard work beats talent when talent won't work hard."
Anyway, that's just always been my gut impression about Parisyan. I'm sure he worked his ass off to train for this, but working your ass off, and working your ass off in a completely focused, intelligent manner are two different things.
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