The Ultimate Fighter 7: Episode Six

At the end of last week's show, Forrest retained control to pick the fights had announced the fight for this week's installment. This wouldn't be the only scrap TUF fans would be treated to on this particular Wednesday evening.

"Crazy" Tim Credeur, once again sang Matt Brown's praises and conveyed his utter distaste for the company of Jeremy May. Back at the house, May was taking shots of what looked to be straight vodka, but as we would soon find out, was nothing more than a ruse to get Matt Brown to believe that he would not be in top form for their fight the next day. May went on camera boldly stating that he does not believe that Matt Brown would be ready for him. As we would soon find out, the man might as well have been sousing it up. But Jeremy May would continue to spew his predictions at the camera, saying that he would beat Brown's ass "in a good Christian way". This would soon be put up for debate in the minds of many as we would learn that May had been nursing a knee injury from early on. We would also soon learn that his injury was not even as bad as he led his teammates to believe; using it as an excuse to "pace himself" or slack on his conditioning drills. Later on in the hour we would hear Matt Riddle, also expressing his stark disgust with May, stating that, "I never knew I could dislike someone so fast" and suggesting to Brown that he should aim for the knee. It would certainly seem that many of the members in the house were offended by the antics of this so-called, "Jeremy jitsu" practicioner.

Next we would get a shot of Matt Brown appearing extremely focused in his training. Amir Sadollah went on camera predicting Matt Brown's victory "by murder". Brown went on camera himself telling the world of how MMA saved him from a life of drugs, crime and near death experiences. Leading to commercial we would get some shots of Coach Forrest and Brown putting in an intense sparring drill that looked like it had the potential for injury writ all over it, had they not been wearing protective equipment.

During the weigh-ins we would hear Forrest on camera expressing his worries about Matt coming into the cage too pumped up and emotional because of the dip incident, and the possibility of burning himself out quickly, but also saying that he would do fine as long as he remained calm and composed. May's immature behavior would continue with the stare down, smiling and sticking his chin out at Brown, who was respectfully in a proper stance. We would then hear the childish May blabbing about how Brown would have to pull something out of his ass to beat him. Matt Brown would then give his thoughts stating that performing at his best would be his only focus.

Round one of the fight began with some wild flurries from May, who came out with guns blazing. Brown remained reserved and seemed to let the prankster wear himself down. May attempted to land a left high kick, but would not succeed. He immediately followed up with a right high kick that would leave him off balanced and open to a connection from Brown that would put May on his back. Brown slipped into side-control, obtaining mount soon after. Brown was swept by May, who would almost be locked in an arm-bar from the bottom position, slightly slamming his way out of the dire predicament. Brown still working submissions from the bottom, would then execute a sweep of his own, ending up on top in side control. He would then briefly move to "north-south" position, before rising to the toes. Squaring off, it would seem that May, most likely due to lack of conditioning, was exhausted. Attempting to pull guard, May fell to his back while Brown remained standing, landing a shot from there. May would then rise to his feet once again but would receive a knee to the face for his troubles. Rocked and wobbling, May was the recipient of a beautiful left high kick to the chin from Brown that would end any and all chances of TUF glory for the arguably most disliked member of the cast (Matt Riddle would surely have first choice to come back, should someone be injured). The triumphant Brown winning by KO went on to state how he had hurt his foot on May's face, the camera showed an icepack on the left foot of the first winner of this week.

Now with Team Forrest at 4-0, they would retain the "hammer" and would choose the next fight by flipping a coin. It would be Daniel Cramer vs. Luke Zachrich for the tail end of this week?s double feature. Zachrich, feeling that being picked last was a slap in the face, would state his need to prove something to the world. Dan Cramer would then speak himself, saying that he?s not much of a talker but would have every intention of imposing his will on Zachrich. Rampage appeared to be irritated with losing all of the first four fights. Also, seemingly annoyed with the luck and success of Forrest's coin flipping tactics, Coach Quinton would then conference with his fellow coaches, stating such annoyances. Dana White went on to say that he could see the tension building between the two head coaches, but when and if this would come to head on collision was still yet to be seen.

Round one of this fight began with some wild swinging from Cramer, immediately clinching thereafter. Pushing against the cage, they would both land some knees in close quarters. Pulling away from the cage the two men would square off, soon going to the ground but rising abruptly before anything could happen there. Zachrich constantly going for the Thai clinch would leave himself open to a lot of "dirty boxing" from Cramer. Zachrich, still going for his non-solidified Thai clinch, would also join in with his own "dirty boxing". Zachrich was tossed to the ground by Cramer who remained postured on his feet. Allowing him to rise, the fight would then turn into an all out slugfest with both men testing each other chins. Zachrich executed a take down to side-control with Cramer soon giving away his back. Luke made a good attempt at a choke, loosening his opponent up with strikes but could not succeed with either a submission or T.K.O. before the sound of the horn. Round two began with a flurry from Cramer, who immediately pushed Zachrich to the cage and pulled him off to execute an excellent take down. Cramer, in a fairly high mount worked on elbows and landed quite a few to the face of Zachrich. Zachrich give up his back allowing Cramer to sink in the hooks, but would soon lose his total position of dominance. Raining down with vicious blows from the mounted position, Cramer was stopped by Ref. Steve Mazzagatti for the T.K.O..

Zachrich appeared on camera and showed great class and sportsmanship. He also stated disappointment at becoming gassed. Overjoyed at finally winning and gaining control over the fights Coach Quinton would leave us with a "YEEA BOYEEE" and a chant of sheer happiness, also declaring that it was the best fight he had ever seen. So, for the first time in the season we would have a fight announcement from Rampage next week on the Ultimate Fighter.

by Joshua E. Ottley of mma-underground.com