Karo Parisyan got out of a cab at the Las Vegas airport, and his father’s voice on the other end of his cell phone was finally too much to bear.
It hadn’t been long since Parisyan told his manager to inform the UFC brass that he was pulling out of his scheduled UFC 106 bout with Dustin Hazelett last month. A series of suffocating personal issues, Parisyan said, led to the decision, the most difficult he said he has ever made. And he soon had hundreds of texts and phone messages pleading with him to answer the question: Why?
In our newest Sunday feature, MMAjunkie.com’s Kyle Nagel goes in depth with “The Lightning Rod” of controversy to the get the answers.