A couple of days ago, UFC announced its coaches for Season 8 of “The Ultimate Fighter”--- Heavyweights, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Frank Mir. They also decided that they’ll go back to the original format of having two tournaments for two different weight classes.

But, hold on a second! While Season 8 might have fans panting for what will be, the Season 7 tournament continues steamrolling towards the quarterfinals.

For the second week in a row TUF presented fans with a two-for-one--- two fights in one episode. With only three preliminary fights to go, Dana White and his crew decided to speed things up a bit.

“I’m in control, I’m in control”. Episode 7 begins with Rampage Jackson giddily singing these words while doing his best impression of Jimi Hendrix on the air guitar. For the first time on the show Rampage controls which fighters will fight. Savoring the moment, Rampage does his best to milk the moment.

FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT

With only three team members left to choose from, Rampage decides it’s time to unleash his most physically powerful fighter, a fighter who Rampage shares a lot of similarities with. He chooses wrestler Gerald Harris.

“I can use a Mini-Me, a smaller version of me”

Interestingly, instead of choosing the lowest ranked fighter left on Team Forrest as Harris’ opponent (Nick Klein), Rampage chooses Forrest’s # 2 ranked fighter, kickboxer Amir Sadollah to face off against Harris. Rampage thinks the style match-up will strongly favor his team.

“Classic rastler versus kickboxer”. Rampage adds a mad-scientist laugh to emphasize his glee over the match-up.

“Mooo ha ha ha ha”

Sadollah doesn’t seem too happy with the prospects of facing Harris, especially because of Harris’ reputation. As Harris likes to say,

“I slam the *hit out of people”

For anyone who saw highlights of Harris’ first fight, they know that this is no overstatement.

Forrest Griffin sees his young fighter’s confidence wavering,

“Amir is not stoked that Gerald is a guy who picks guys up and throws them on their heads”.

But, he tries his best to boost Sadollah’s spirits. Unfortunately, Forrest sometimes gets a little confused. In one of the funnier exchanges of the episode Forrest makes a bet with Sadollah,

Forrest, “If you lose the fight I’ll shave my head”

Sadollah, “But I’m not supposed to want to lose the fight”

Forrest looks dumbfounded before he realizes his mistake and recovers,