In my UFC 79 quick picks post I picked Tony DeSouza over Roan Carneiro because of his training with BJ Penn camp and him having more (longer even) experience than Carneiro.  It was a good technical mostly ground fight.  Carneiro took the fight to the ground quickly after clinching and ended up on top in DeSouza's guard. DeSouza played good rubber guard (best defensive guard game there is) right into a deep armbar, which Carneiro got out of with some work. DeSouza scrambled into Carneiro's half-guard where Carneiro applied a pretty good kimura. Desouza straightened/twisted out his arm out of the kimura and in the process got into a loose mount and landed a few punches while Carneiro threw him off. DeSouza scrambled back into Carneiro's guard where Carneiro landed a few downward elbows from the bottom to finish off the round. After that round I felt good about my picking him to win.

Round two with started off with DeSouza pushing the action in stand up until Carneiro clinched him on the fence where the action stalled for a bit. The ref restarted them, DeSouza again pushed the stand up until Carneiro took him down when DeSouza over commited with a straight right.  Desouza tried a few things from the guard and then tried to scramble up near the fence. That's where Carneiro worked his way onto DeSouza's back and straightened him out with tight hook and rained down punches. DeSouza couldn't get out of the hooks and the ref had to stop the fight for a TKO from punches. DeSouza complained a bit to the ref but he couldn't improve his condition and Carneiro's punches weren't slowing down.

Dammit, I just looked at Sherdog.com, and guess I forgot that Carneiro is the same guy that gave Jon Fitch, the next best top contender at 170, real hard time and fits during the first round of their fight. I mean he really threatened Jon Fitch with a loss, I was worried till Fitch showed why he's the top contender. Carneiro also beat Rich Clementi.

I can't believe I picked DeSouza for the win. Carneiro is a top notch fighter. But I made the "quick picks" in a hurry. With that said DeSouza did good for a while againts a very tough Carneiro.

Watch out for Roan "Jucao" Carneiro at 170, he's going to make some waves very soon.