Video: UFC’s Karo Parisyan blames problems on mental issues, not addiction

Karo Parisyan was not addicted to painkillers.

That’s according to the veteran fighter, who recently re-signed with the UFC after he failed a drug test and pulled out of a subsequent fight, which prompted his release from the organization in 2009.

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Karo Parisyan was not addicted to painkillers.

That’s according to the veteran fighter, who recently re-signed with the UFC after he failed a drug test and pulled out of a subsequent fight, which prompted his release from the organization in 2009.

On this past Friday’s new episode of “Inside MMA” on HDNet, Parisyan said mis-communication is to blame for the failed test and that there’s no truth to rumors of an addiction.