Tonight on Alchemist Radio Josh Carey from MMA Weekly will be our guest co-host as we talk to a great group of guests and preview Wednesday night’s UFC card in Brazil featuring Jake Shields vs. Demian Maia.

For those of our listeners who are also Sons of Anarchy fans we have the beautiful and talented Natalie Skyy leading things off. Skyy is a huge MMA fan and has had stints as a ring card girl for various promotions including Strikeforce.

Next we will speak with the Invicta strawweight champion Carla Esparza. She was scheduled to defend her title at Invicta 6 against Ayaka Hamasaki, but was forced out due to a knee injury that required surgery. Now that she is all healed up Esparza will defend the title she won at Invicta 4 against Claudia Gadelha in December at Invicta 7.

Continuing with our RFA “Prospect of the Week” we will talk to Johnny Case who will face E.J. Brooks at RFA 10 on October 25. Case comes into the bout with an overall record of 12-4 with 7 KO/TKO’s and 4 submissions. The card will be televised on AXS TV.

Anthony “Rumble” Johnson will return to the light heavyweight division on December 7^th as he faces Mike Kyle in Vancouver on the World Series of Fighting 7 card. Johnson was last seen defeating former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski via unanimous decision at WSOF 2 in March. The win pushed Johnson’s record to 15-4 and 2-0 in the organization. The 29-year-old Blackzilian has won five in a row with his last loss came against Vitor Belfort at UFC 142 in January of 2012.

This Friday night in Florida our next guest Luis “Baboon” Palomino will face UFC veteran Efrain Escudero at CFA 12 which will also be televised on AXS TV. Palomino is a training partner of top UFC featherweight contender Ricardo Lamas and has victories over Gesias Cavalcante, Jorge Masvidal and Charles Bennett. He holds an overall record of 21-8 with 11 KO/TKO’s and 2 submissions.

Reed Kuhn aka “The Fight Scientist” will join us to preview Wednesday nights UFC card. Kuhn returns after a one week sabbatical and is preparing to release his book at the end of the month.

The show begins promptly at 7pm and you can listen live by clicking here: