Season 7 of The Ultimate Fighter ended last night at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas. There were 12 fights scheduled on the card and Spike TV aired six of the fights.
Most of the fights shown were boring and dull. There were many things better to do on a Saturday night than watch these unspectacular fights.
Only MMA fans who enjoy watching fights go to a decision would have enjoyed the televised fights.
The first fight shown was Matt Riddle against Dante Rivera. This match was supposed to be a grudge match as these two did not get along on the show. I don't think too many fans cared about this rivalry, and I don't think many people would have been mad if this fight was a prelim instead of being on the main card.
Riddle, as expected, won by decision over his older opponent.
The next fight was between Jeremy Stephens and Spencer Fisher in a battle of lightweights. This fight was more entertaining than the first fight but it ended in a decision too. The veteran Fisher dominated most of the action and it was another one-sided affair.
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The best fight on the show was next as Diego Sanchez fought lightly-regarded Luigi Fioravanti. It was a closer battle than many anticipated as Fioravanti was able to avoid most of Sanchez's takedown attempts. Fioravanti never inflicted much damage to Sanchez, and Sanchez was able to win via TKO in the third round.
Amir Sadollah once again defeated C.B. Dolloway by arm-bar to win The Ultimate Fighter championship for Season 7.
In the night's main event, Kendall Grove easily defeated veteran Evan Tanner by decision. Grove, who surprisingly was a underdog for this fight, used his reach advantage to control Tanner for much of the bout.
Tanner was bloodied early but never gave up and showed a lot of heart and tenacity in not allowing Grove to finish him off with a knockout. Tanner knew he was not going to win if the fight came down to a decision, so he started to go for broke in the last round and tried to land haymakers.
Most of the fights on the card were one-sided and not too entertaining.
One fight between Cale Yarbrough and Tim Credeur got cancelled due to Credeur testing positive for an illegal substance. I don't think fans felt slighted at all with that fight having to be called off as both of these fighters are far from superstars.
Since a lot of the fights went three rounds, Spike TV only showed one prelim match featuring Drew McFedries against Marvin Eastman.
McFedries looked really good and won by TKO due to strikes in the first round.
The fights that were televised left a lot to be desired. Some of the prelim fights that were not shown were probably more entertaining as they ended by knockout or submission.
The UFC's next big show is July 5 when Rampage Jackson takes on challenger Forrest Griffin for the UFC Light Heavyweight title.
Hopefully that pay-per-view show will be much better than the last few UFC shows which were lacking in excitement.
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5 months ago
Just a question, what kind of fights are you looking for?
4 months ago
I have to say, I don't think I've ever agreed with you in any of your articles. Sometimes I even wonder if we watched the same fights. While I will concede that the fights were not "Griffen vs Bonner" level action, they were still very entertaining to watch. All of the fights had tons of stand up banging, all of the fights left one or both fighters bloodied, all of the fighters were conditioned and ready to battle for 3 rounds and there was only one single instance all night, when the ref stood both fighters up due to lack of action. Granted, I would have preferred the Burkman/Hazelett fight over the Riddle/Rivera fight....but otherwise I have no complaints.
I guess we define "boring and dull" differently. My definition of "boring and dull" is both fighters dancing around the ring feinting jabs at each other, holding one another against the cage in order to catch their breaths, or lying on top of each other, completely gassed after 1 round, and neither doing damage or trying for submissions. Now THAT is boring and dull. But to bang the crap out of one another for 15 minutes and letting the judges decide who got banged worse, is not boring to me.
I have to echo what the previous poster said...What kind of Fights do you get excited over? Do you prefer 30 second knockouts in every fight? I can picture the perfect DWizzle UFC card....All 12 fights would end w/ 30 second knockouts, total fight time lasting all of 6 minutes. That would leave 2 hours and 54 minutes of thrilling and exciting commentary and talking, interrupted only by 4000 commercials advertising upcoming UFC events. Sorry man...just busting your chops. But seriously, I don't see anything wrong with the fights that were shown FOR FREE.
4 months ago
Since I was not a big fan of Season 7, I was not truly invested in any of the fights involving the contestants on that show. I thought the Diego fight was good and the main event was not too bad although one-sided for the most part.
The fights I like include decisions, knockouts, and submissions. I enjoy entertaining fights with interesting personalities and I guess I just didn't care enough about the TUF contestants to enjoy their fights.
One of the best fights I seen lately was the one in WEC where MigueL Torres defeated the japanese fighter a few weeks ago. I hope you guys saw that one too.
4 months ago
Hey Paul by the way, I think a lot of the WEC fights besides the one with Torres and the Japanese fighter have been very good. Those fights are exciting and fast-paced due to the smaller weight classes and also the cage is smaller too.
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