The Ultimate Fighter
THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER REPORT 5/14: Hyden's rundown of all the fights, all the drama on Spike TV
By By Frank Hyden, MMATorch contributer
May 14, 2008 - 10:47:35 PM

The Ultimate Fighter review
May 14, 2008
By Frank Hyden

We start off immediately with the fight announcement. It's going to be Gerald Harris vs. Amir Sadollah. Gerald is a great wrestler and loves dropping people on their heads which worries Amir greatly. Both guys are shown training with their respective teams. Gerald is ripped. Amir is rocking the old Eddie Guerrero, Miguel Torres mullet. Forrest Griffin makes a side bet with Amir that if Amir loses Forrest will shave his own head. If Amir wins he can shave half of Forrest's head and Forrest has to keep his hair like that for the rest of this season.

FIGHT- Gerald Harris vs. Amir Sadollah

Gerald has a 2 inch reach advantage. Both men are the same height. Josh Rosenthal is the official and he makes his usual low-key call to arms for the fighters. Sounds similar to a dad talking to a 3 year old. It's not a bad thing, but it's certainly a change-up from the usual yelling the official does pre-match.

ROUND 1- Gerald gets on top but there's not a lot of action. 2 minutes in and still not much has happened. They finally scramble up and Gerald gets a huge slam. Somehow Amir stays awake and fights back to his fight. Gerald with another slam. Amir grabbed the cage and might have had a point deducted. Amir gets back to his feet and barely misses a knee that would have ended it. Amir takes Gerald's back for a moment before they rise again. The round ends with Amir fighting off a slam attempt by Gerald.

ROUND 2- Amir opens with some leg kicks while Gerald looks for another slam. They exchange shots and Amir lands a knee that drops Gerald. He covers up and the ref stops the fight. Gerald is screaming that he wasn't out and is extremely upset. He storms to the dressing room and is comforted by his teammates and coaches. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson tells him all he can is learn from this experience.

WINNER- Amir Sadollah by TKO

The next fight is announced as Cale Yarbrough vs. Patrick Schultz. Both guys just want to punch each other until one is knocked out. Neither one seems too interested intakedowns or groundfighting. It should be a stand-up war. No side bets prior to this fight, unfortunately. I would vote in favor of Patrick shaving his head. Those frosted spikes, or whatever they are, aren't exactly my favorite hairstyle. But I'm not exactly the picture of style myself so I'll just be quiet.

FIGHT - Cale Yarbrough vs. Patrick Schultz

Patrick has a 2 inch reach advantage. Both men are the same height. Deja vu. Steve Mazzagatti is the official.

ROUND 1- They both start with early jabs. Nice punches are thrown by both fighters. Patrick lands a big right but Cale takes it. Patrick is just throwinghaymaker after haymaker . Cale slips and falls. They're both throwing tons of punches. Patrick keeps throwing the same right over and over and over. Cale takes Patrick down. They get up. Cale takes him down again. The round ends.

ROUND 2- Both fighters throw some early kicks and punches. Cale takes Patrick down. Cale with the ground and pound. Cale has Patrick in Team Forrest's corner and the coaches are helping him tear Patrick apart. Cale is just pounding Patrick. This is pretty boring to watch. It's as if Patrick isn't even trying to get up. He's just lying there taking a beating. The round ends with Cale having been on top of Patrick for practically the entire round. Most everyone there is expecting a 3rd round but the judges see it differently.

WINNER- Cale Yarbrough by decision

Rampage is irate at the decision. Forrest is in the octagon and Patrick tells him to get back to his side of the cage and that he can't wait until Rampage fights Forrest. Rampage stomps off and bets his fight purse that his match with Forrest won't go to a decision. Forrest heads to the back and we get a shot of Dana White saying that his 2jokester coaches want to Ken and Tito each other. That's a great line.

Neither fight this week was really all that exciting. Cale vs. Patrick was reminiscent of a few bar brawls I've seen, lots of punches thrown but not a lot of violence. Patrick is just too one-dimensional. But it was fairly entertaining to see Amir basically doing the splits trying to avoid more slams from Gerald. I am disappointed that we didn't get to see Amir shave half of Forrest's head but maybe we'll see that next week. I also want to see what happened in the dressing room area after Forrest went back there. Something was getting broken.

NEXT WEEK- CB Dollaway vs. Nick Klein and the quarterfinal match-ups are announced.

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