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Jordan Breen and myself stayed up last Saturday night following the conclusion of the UFC 127 pay-per-view broadcast for another edition of "Beatdown After The Bell."

There pleanty of talking points coming out of the card that took place in Sydney, Australia. With the main event of B.J. Penn and Jon Fitch ending a majority draw we tackled the subject of judging in mixed martial arts. We also shared our view on Nick Rings controversial decision win over Riki Fukuda. Along with judging Jordan and I touched on the actions if Michael Bisping following his stoppage of Jorge Rivera.

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With Georges St. Pierre possibly leaving the division after one more fight, it could soon be open season atop the UFC welterweight division. And with Jon Fitch and B.J. Penn squaring off tomorrow night in the main event of UFC 127, what a win could mean is also open-ended. The dynamic was analyzed thoroughly on today's Roundtable discussion of UFC 127, as I moderated a panel made up of Sherdog.com's Jordan Breen, Yahoo! Sports' Dave Meltzer and SBNation.com's Luke Thomas.

The panel broke down tomorrow night's card in Australia in full and pondered a range of questions. What does the panel like for the winners? How is the main event likely to end? What are the UFC's prospects in China and Sweden?

All that and more on the Sherdog Radio Network Roundtable for UFC 127, which you can download by clicking here.

B.J. Penn, Jon Fitch, Michael Bisping and Jorge Rivera held an open workout to promote their bouts at UFC 127.

All of this should make Fitch a perennial contender, and he is, but it’s not without some hesitation on the promotion’s part. After a dull decision win over Thiago Alves in August, the UFC withdrew the “guaranteed” title shot the winner of the fight was supposed to receive. Instead, Fitch is fighting Jake Ellenberger on Feb. 5 at UFC 126; St. Pierre will fight Josh Koscheck in December, Jake Shields next year, and possibly Silva later on. Even if Fitch beats Ellenberger, he won’t get a sniff of that belt until 2012.

The part of me largely uninterested in Fitch’s Sarlaac Pit of a style -- he slowly envelops opponents, pinning them down in endurance fights -- has no problem with it; the part of me that believes results should be valued over everything else does.

Two distinctly different schools of thought on fighting teammates: promoters want it. Fighters don’t. And who really holds the power is open to debate.

Jon Jones recently insisted he would never, ever fight Rashad Evans, a peer at 205 pounds that he trains with regularly at Greg Jackson’s camp. This is especially contrary when you consider that Jones stands an excellent chance of being either a No. 1 contender or champion within the next 18 months -- and Evans is on the same podium, with a title shot against Mauricio Rua due sometime in 2011. What happens if Evans is champion when Jones earns his shot?

Doesn’t matter. Fishing is more important. "Fighting Rashad is the last thing I'd ever want to do," Jones told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "To me, being able to call Rashad when we're 40 years old and say, 'Let's go fishing,' or something like that, that's more important than the paycheck we would get today.”

Jones may not get to do a lot of recreational bass catching if he turns down big fights and antagonizes UFC management. The fight isn’t a pressing issue now, but it will be, guaranteed. Evans and Jones are too good not to end up as competition for one another.

It doesn’t end there: Jon Fitch, the perennial number-two guy at welterweight, says he’d sooner move up to middleweight rather than fight teammate Josh Koscheck.