TUF 7: Making 16-Year Old Girls Cry

The results were inevitable…so inevitable the SpikeTV producers couldn’t even muster up enough drama to scoot me to the middle of my seat, much less the edge.

Tim Credeur (9-2) versus Daniel Cramer (0-0) and “Doberman” CB Dollaway (6-0) versus Cale Yarbrough (0-0).

Just peep their records.

Fighters.com’s top-ranked light heavyweight “Rampage” Quinton Jackson (28-6) laid out Dollaway’s strategy for Yarbrough: “Whip his ass.”

Jackson reminded Dollaway before the fight that “[Yarbrough] aksed for everyone but you!”

At the first bell, Dollaway commenced Jackson’s strategy.  After a few half-hearted stand-up exchanges, Dollaway shot for a double-leg slam, passed to mount, and pounded Yarbrough.

Yarbrough rolled to his stomach, then turtled up as referee Herb Dean repeatedly warned him to fight back.

After the fight, Dollaway accused Yarbrough of doing what he had to do to end the fight.

“I hate that guy,” fifth-ranked Forrest Griffin (15-4) admitted about Dollaway.  Griffin explained, “He’s just so cocky.  And, he backs it up.  God bless him; but, I hate him.”

Before the fight, Jackson and Griffin took their teams to Pole Position for bumper car racing and Coach Jackson burned rubber around the track, beating Griffin and the other racers.

Cooped up for five weeks in the house, the few hours out was like someone forgot to lock the cages at the zoo.  When the fighters returned home, Dollaway lead a thorough thrashing of the house.

The episode had begun with a “Return of the Douche Bag” sequence starring Jeremy May (5-5).

May had walked in while Jesse Taylor (6-0) was spouting off choice synonyms for “Jeremy May”.

May plotted his revenge by pushing Taylor’s buttons to the point Taylor would hit him and be sent home early.

Remember, Fighters.com reported Taylor’s claim that he’s still undefeated after the show; so, there was a bit of drama when May began calling Taylor a bitch.

Taylor stood, but the house’s cooler heads held him back from taking a swipe at May.

The final quarter final match-up actually proved tougher for Credeur than one would’ve expected.

“Babyface” Cramer came out swinging and actually scored the first takedown on the submission fighter, Credeur.

Cramer quickly stood out of Credeur’s guard and pounced on Credeur with a barrage of strikes as Credeur stood up.

Credeur clammed up and absorbed a lot of punches before tripping Cramer to the mat and wrapping up Cramer’s leg in a hell hook as Cramer attempted to stand.

Credeur fulfilled his promise of “16-year old girls cry” by beating Cramer.

All that was left to do was choose the semi-final match-ups; and, Griffin had already decided he wanted Taylor to fight Dollaway, leaving Credeur versus Amir Sadollah (0-0).

It looked like Griffin would get his way when “Rampage” overslept and missed the matchmaking; but, UFC President Dana White had a different idea.

White matched Taylor versus Credeur and Dollaway versus Sadollah for the semi-finals.