Ultimate Fighter Season 7 Middleweights Griffin vs Jackson

UPDATE 4/09/08

Fight 9 Dan Simmler Vs. Matther Riddle

Simmler is a jj guy…Riddle gets a nice take down…Simmler gets up…Simmler has no standup….goes for some crazy flying arm bar.. falls down.. gets hit a little.. gets back up… This fight is not very good.. kinda just standing around against the fence…Riddle gets a sloppy take down at 1:10 ish… Round sucks.. Riddle gets the round IMO.

Round 2:

Riddle comes out.. touches gloves.. and knocks Simmler the fuck out. He is like literally crying on the ground. He might have brain damage the way he is moaning. I think his jaw is broken. This was like the knockout of the year. He is getting on the ambulance and he keeps asking where he is and what happened.. I think he got knocked about a week into the future or something.

Fight 10 Luke Zachrich Vs. Patrick Shultz

Patrick has an accent like Matt Serra. Weird kick.. couple punches… Luke falls down.. gets back to the feet.. Luke gets a take down.. he is on top in half guard… a little ground and pound action going on… Patrick scrambles gets on top.. back to feet.. luke gets a reversal and gets another take down.. ground and pound in full guard..Full guard now.. rolls to back.. has both hooks in… working on the rear naked.. and Patrick taps.

Fight 11 Tim Credeun Vs. Erik Charles

I think tim will win.. Erik sounds bad. Tim gets a take down early.. works into side control.. rolls into an arm bar… gets the tap. Dominated. Tim Wins.

Fight 12 Brandon Sene Vs. Aaron Meisner

Mesner gets early.. then Brandon gets take down… Brandon wins by RNC. Shows good heart.

Fight 13 Mike Marrello Vs. Gerald Harris

Gerald gets big take down.. ground and pound.. nice punches.. seems to dominate the fight.. wins by decision.

Fight 14 Daniel Cramer Vs. Jermiah Riggs

These guys are doing some weird techniques.. dude upkicks other guy in the face about 4 times.. illegal.. and Dana and forest are talking about it.. and Rampage is like.. “thats illegal”.. and Dana says..”What the fuck have you been doing .. fighting in pride?”.. i’m LMAO…This is just a weird ass fight… Cramer wins.. but.. they really both lost.

Fight 15 Nick Rossborough Vs. Jesse Taylor

Jesse gets take down.. full mount.. rolls.. stands up.. take back down… Jesse on top… pure domination.. Nick looks like he wants to quit… Wins by RNC… Nick didn’t do anything. Rampage isn’t impressed.

Fight 16 Josh Hall Vs. Matt Brown

Clench early.. punches back and forth in clench.. almost gets a triangle but he rolls out of it…Matt brown wins.. it looks like he just gets pissed and starts pounding that guys face.  I like this guy a lot.

UPDATE 4/02/08

Dana is going to make them all fight right off the bat. They thought they were already in the top 16, but they find out that they are in the top 32 and have to fight to make the top 16. So your on the show, but if you lose this fight tomorrow, your going home. I like this idea in the since that it allows Quinton and Forest a good chance to evaluate the fighters.

Fight 1 McLean Vs. Dolce

Dolce lands a nice punch early.. some scrambling, he gets on top.. they struggle, it goes back to their feet, and Dolce lands a huge knockout. Nice display of punching power.

Fight 2 Cale Yarbrough Vs. John Clarke

Cale is a friend of Forrest. They kind of fall down.. Cale is on bottom… John keeps punching to the back of the head.. there is another take down… Cale ends up on top. Armbar attemp by John.. Cale pops out. Cale gets on top, and winds by ground and pound. I would like to note that John had to cut 17 pounds, and was like 10 years older. He lost.

Fight 3 Steve Brynes Vs. Amir Sadollah

First round.. a lot of back and forth on the ground, there is a weak triangle attempt at the end of the round.. nothing really exciting for me.

Second round. Both these guys are so tired that they are barely doing anything. One if these guys is a Marine as well, so I would expect him to have a little more endurance. Amir wins by arm bar.

Fight 4 David Baggett Vs. CB Dollaway

DB Dollaway completely dominates, gets stopped early from ground and pound.

Fight 5 Dante Rivera Vs. John Wood

Dante wins early by an against the cage Kamora (sp?). This is a new one for me.

Fight 6 Nick Klein Vs. David Mewborn

Mewborn gets beat like he stole something by a side arm choke.

FIght 7 Paul Bradley Vs. Reggie Orr

Wins by a drawn out wrestling bs. He wins.. but he just lays on the guy.. and draws it out for the entire 10 minutes.

Fight 8 Jeremy May Vs. Dave Roberts

Roberts is a friend of Rampage, they were in high school together. Dave gets dominated early, Falls down into an arm bar. Jeremy May wins.

More to come next week.

UPDATE! 3/18/08

The show will premier on Wednesday April 2, at 10PM following UFC fight night live on Spike baby! I can’t Wait!

*****************************

Last night at Spike’s video game awards show Dana announced the coaches for season 7 of The Ultimate Fighter. Forest Griffin and Quinton Rampage Jackson. This season will be all about the middleweights, and Griffin and Jackson will fight in the finale for the title. This should be a great fight. Here is a little background on each fighter, in case you have been living in a box, or like Shane you don’t get Spike.

Forrest Griffin - He was the winner of the first season of The Ultimate Fighter, and has had great success (borat) since the culmination of his win. He has established himself as the #1 contender for the title. How did he do this you might ask? Well, After winning the show, he went on to fight Tito Ortiz, and he lost the fight, but he lost in style by a split decision. This fight was close, and he did well. His next fight was a rematch against Stepphan Bonnar, which he dominated, winning all three rounds. He then lost to Keith Jardine by way of knockout at the end of the first. He then defeated Hector Ramirez in UFC 72 by unanimous decision. His latest fight was at UFC 76 against PRIDE’s 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua^[2]. Griffin won by rear naked choke at 4:45 of round three. It has since been reported that Griffin required surgery after the fight due to a serious shoulder injury that was sustained in the bout. It seems this has been a reoccurring problem for him.

Quinton Jackson - He started his UFC career with a fight against Marvin Eastman in UFC 67, which he won by knockout. At UFC 71 as anyone who follows the UFC should know, he beat Chuck Liddell 1:53 into the first round. Jackson then defeated PRIDE middleweight champion Dan Henderson at UFC 75, which effectively combined the pride and UFC titles.

Both fighters have come a long way, and Griffin’s win against Shogun shows he his no pushover, if you ever thought he was, but Jackson is one mean looking guy. This should be a good stand up fight.