The preliminary fights all took place in a single day about three months ago, but off the top of my head, three of the guys that stood out to me were: 1) CB Dollaway - something about the way he fought and controlled his guy impressed me. 2) Mike Dolce had an impressive knockout, and his intensity and the way he fought stood out in my mind. 3) Chipper (Matt Riddle) stood out, of course. I thought he showed explosive knockout power in his fight with Dan Simmler, that was very, very impressive.
The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. You may have heard this phrase used many times in your life, often describing the highs and lows of organized sports competition. I had the distinct privilege of experiencing both in the span of five days. Hopefully, I can retell my personal account without sounding like a pu**y who is crying about a loss. In this blog I’m trying to tell you exactly what I knew and how I felt about it with no secrets.

Amir Sadollah is one of 16 middleweight fighters that fought their way into the house on Spike TV’s reality series “The Ultimate Fighter 7.” Sadollah will take ocregister.com readers along for the ride as he battles for a six-figure contract with the UFC with his weekly blog.
Dan Cramer, Team Rampage - Having just graduated from the University Connecticut with a degree in Economics, one of the questions I get asked the most is ‘why do I fight?’ Well, first off, fighting is what I love to do. I love training, learning, competing, pretty much everything about it. There were times when I was younger when I’d be out of the gym for a couple months partying, hanging out or whatever, and I'd always start feeling like something was missing in my life.
CAUTION: SPOILERS INCLUDED – And then there were 16. 32 competitors were cut down in half over the last two weeks to determine the cast for The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest, and now the remaining fighters will be split into teams by coaches Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson and Forrest Griffin.
CAUTION: SPOILERS INCLUDED – Eight up and coming middleweights have fought their way onto the seventh season of The Ultimate Fighter reality series. Eight more will join them this week in rounding out the cast, but they’ll have to do it the hard way.
“The Ultimate Fighter®: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest” kicked off Wednesday night with an explosive new format designed to shake the foundations of the hit Spike TV reality series. Now, by popular demand, you can follow and download the biggest season of The Ultimate Fighter® yet, exclusively on iTunes.
Each week, fight fans can download each hard-hitting episode from the iTunes store for $1.99 or purchase a season pass for just $24.99 and watch as UFC® light heavyweight champion Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson and number one contender Forrest Griffin coach the top up and coming middleweights in mixed martial arts as they compete for a UFC® contract and recognition as ‘The Ultimate Fighter®.’
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CAUTION: SPOILERS INCLUDED – Not content with the status quo, UFC® President Dana White decided to shake things up a bit for the seventh season of The Ultimate Fighter® reality series, which premiered Wednesday night on Spike TV.

New York, NY - The landmark reality series The Ultimate Fighter®, has launched the UFC® careers of some of mixed martial arts' brightest young stars, including Kenny Florian, Rashad Evans, Josh Koscheck, Michael Bisping and Joe Stevenson. Season 7 of The Ultimate Fighter will feature perhaps its most famous alum, Season 1's champion and top light heavyweight contender Forrest Griffin, as he will come full circle to serve as one of the coaches opposite the undisputed light heavyweight champion of the world, the charismatic Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – The Ultimate Fighter teammates Troy Mandaloniz and Richie Hightower became friends in their time together on the Spike TV reality series, but they didn’t fight like buddies in preliminary action tonight at The Palms Resort and Casino, going toe to toe for much of the opening round until the heavy-handed Mandaloniz finished Hightower late in the first frame of their welterweight bout.
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