Oddly enough Karo's best fight might have been a decision loss to GSP. Karo was working serious subs while GSP was laying and praying.
For straight up performance, his debut against Strasser was flawless, and to out grapple Nick DIaz was quite a feat.
I remember just after the GSP fight everyone was writing off Karo to losing to some nobody, amazing what hindsight can do.
I still wish Karo fought Hughes (Injury), I think he was a great stylistic matchup against hughes
Post Script, Random Karo story.
I went to some judo tournament forever ago, in Norwalk, CA in the finals I did a sumi gaeshi (think the reversal KZ did against poirier) and they gave the ippon to the other guy.
I went and pouted and some random Aremenian dude came up to me and was saying that was a bad call, complimented my matches before, even asked how i set up a specific thing, really made me feel a ton better, we probably chit chatted for well over an hour.
Fast forward a few months or so, Saw UFC 44 I think it was, the following monday went into judo saying to my sensei some guy just mopped the floor with some other guy using really nice judo. "His name was kiro or kero or something..."
Instructor said "Karo" i was like that's it,
He called me a retard and explained that's the guy I was hanging out with at the tournament.
Not partircularly related, I know Karo gets this rap as being a bit of a dick, but he was really kind to me, Good guy.