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When Karo Parisyan’s former student and training partner Neil Melanson came forward in the wake of "The Heat" pulling out of his UFC 106 fight with Dustin Hazelett and his subsequent public firing by UFC president Dana White to "reveal" that the Armenian fighter was addicted to pain killers, I couldn’t help but think, "How could a guy who called himself a friend do that to one of his pals?"
Looking at the situation objectively, nobody had ever really heard of Melanson and the interview he did outing Karo got his name in everyone’s mouths, but really didn’t help Parisyan’s so-called problem. If anything, it just gave the already in-motion rumor mill more steam.
Well, according to Parisyan, Melanson’s version of events is a bout as legit as the no-gi grappling black belt he awarded Randy Couture after he tapped out James Toney.