Sanchez vs. Paryson

[Merryprankster]

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.

[BM2]

Diego won by an advantage point against Pablo Popovitch and later lost on points to him in another submission wrestling tourney. Pablo beat Renzo Gracie last year without having a point scored on him. Diego is world class elite as a grappler.

[Dragon Warrior]

Shonie Carter won . . . but it was because Matt Serra was in his corner and guided him evrey step of the way. This is not necessarily a hit against Carter, because he is a good fighter, but a plus for Serra; he is a great corner man and a fantasitic corner man. He is a HUGE factor for the grey team...

I think Shonnie would have won anyway. Matt was a great corner man in that fight but I think Shonnie was just a better fighter than clementi. The biggest influence matt had was evertime clementi went for a submission, matt would scream "he's got nothing," or he would say tell shonnie the escape. Clementi lost his confidence in his submissions and gave up on them. Anyway I thought it was a great fight.

[Ford Prefect]

I thought it highlighted a main selling point for self defense throws. If that was concrete, Diego would have been brain scrambled many times.

Great fight. I hate Diego, but he impressed me. He dug way down for that last round and finished the fight how a fight should always be finished. It was exciting to watch.

[truewrestler]

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edit: nevermind, looks like the content was removed from YouTube