I was a bit surprised by Thiago's lackluster performance. He has fought with much more intensity before. He looked flat and hesitant from the beginning. He did catch and finish Parisyan with a knee, but I expected a better showing from him. I personally cannot stand Parisyan's attitude. He has a very arrogant and annoying attitude, which reminds me a bit of another guy, but he's from boxing - Vic Darchinyan.
Agree completely. Karo's shown the ability to recover from crazy shots though if you watch his fight with Serra he gets dropped the same way and recovers and goes on to win the fight. Of course I had all my vcash on Karo so I was pissed at the stoppage haha. Can't blame the ref though for acting on behalf of the fighters safety and stepping in.
Karo seemed to be dominating the exchanges and positioning in the fight until he was caught by that knee. At that point, he was no longer intelligently defending himself. The ref was right to stop it. Some refs might have let it go on for another few seconds, and Karo mght have recovered - but that's not how it played out. The referee made the right call. The last thing MMA needs is a Duk Koo Kim incident.
