On the January 31st edition of RecapRadio, hosts Brent Todd and John Petit discussed a variety of topics. The discussion started off with a UFC on Fox 2 breakdown followed by UFC 143 previews.

The undercard for UFC on Fox 2 was first discussed as the Chris Camozzi versus Dustin Jacoby fight was not aired at all contrary to reports. This was rather unfortunate as not only was it an exciting back and forth battle, but Camozzi finished the fight with a 10-finger guillotine choke.

The conversation moved onto the rest of the undercard with a good debate on the knockout of the night. While both of us agreed that Lavar Johnson’s knockout over Joey Beltran deserved the bonus, Cub Swanson’s mouthguard knockout over George Roop was just cool.

Additionally the topic of the calf crusher submission by Charles Olivieria was discussed as we both found it weird that Joe Rogan didn’t even know what the submission was at the time of the call.

The main card of UFC on Fox 2 was broken down and we agreed on several things, but disagreed on the scoring of the Bisping-Sonnen fight. We both felt that if the original fights were in place and the fighters that showed up were the same in those fights, that Munoz would have beaten Sonnen, and Bisping would have destroyed Maia.

Instead we were presented with a rather lackluster performance by Maia who had no excuse for why he gassed. His opponent, Chris Weidman, at least could fall back on the fact that he cut 30 pounds in 10 days and he still beat Maia.

The main event was as predicted, and it just confirmed what we already knew about Davis. While he is talented and a good fighter, Evans is just on a different level.

When it came time to breakdown UFC 143 we first discussed a facebook stream fight of Dan Stittgen versus Stephen Thompson. Stittgen is a local fan favorite, but Thompson is undefeated in not only his mixed martial arts career, but also his Muay Thai career. We both said it should be an interesting fight, as styles make fights.

Breaking down the main portion of the card, we both agreed on nearly every fight. We predicted Ed Herman and Roy Nelson would earn unanimous decisions over Clifford Starks and Fabricio Werdum respectively. We expect a great fight in the bantamweight bout between Renan Barao and Scott Jorgensen, predicting Barao finishing Jorgensen. We expect Koscheck and Pierce to be a lackluster fight and could see it going either way.

As for the main event, we both felt that Carlos Condit is one of the best welterweights in the division. We even said that against anyone else, he probably wins. However we both think that Diaz is more than capable of avoiding a big shot, or if he is hit, can recover fast enough. Diaz has shown he is on a different level when it comes to fighting and we both predicted he would finish Condit off in the 2nd round.

You can listen to the podcast below.

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