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Who takes the Leben - Bisping Fight at UFC 89?
   Leben via KO / TKO
   Leben via Sub
   Leben via Decision
   Bisping via KO / TKO
   Bisping via Sub
   Bisping via Decision
   Undecided



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TUF 7 "Episode 3"---Recap
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TUF 7 "Episode 3"---Recap
It took two episodes and 16 "win to get in" fights to decide the 16 men for "The Ultimate Fighter" Season 7 cast.

Tonight, in episode 3, the fighters finally move into the TUF house. The first fighter we hear from is outspoken Matt Brown, who's telling another fighter, "I'm already confident, I feel I can beat anybody in this house". Of course, since all 16 fighters are coming off wins, they all seem to be feeling a bit on the overconfident side, as we hear again and again from most of the fighters.

The first order of business as always is picking teams. Dana, and his two coaches, Forrest and Rampage enter the gym with all the fighters lined up. A flip of a dual colored coin decides who picks first. Rampage is blue and Forrest is brown. Blue wins!

Before Rampage chooses a fighter, Dana instructs him that as the winner of the toss he can either choose the first fighter or choose what the first match-up will be. As is tradition in the TUF series, the coach whose team wins a fight always gets to choose the next match-up, and Dana stresses the importance of this to Rampage even after Rampage decides he wants to choose the first fighter.

No surprise here, Rampage takes a fighter made from his mold, former collegiate all-american wrestler C.B. Dollaway. Forrest quickly chooses Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Tim Credeur, who had possibly the most impressive victory from the week before. The rest of the picks alternate back and forth.

In the order they were picked here are the final selections and the fighter's MMA record:

TEAM RAMPAGE

1. C.B. Dollaway (6-0)
2. Matt Riddle (1-0)
3. Paul Bradley (5-0)
4. Daniel Cramer (0-0)
5. Gerald Harris (6-2)
6. Mike Dolce (3-4)
7. Jeremy May (5-5)
8. Brandon Sene (2-0)

TEAM FORREST

1. Tim Credeur (10-2)
2. Amir Sadollah (0-0)
3. Jesse Taylor (6-2)
4. Matt Brown (9-6)
5. Cale Yarbrough (0-0)
6. Dante Rivera (10-2)
7. Nick Klein (3-0)
8. Luke Zachrich (7-1)

With the teams picked, Forrest chooses the first fight, Mike Dolce vs Jesse Taylor. The 6 vs 3 seed seems to make Taylor the favorite. Though not in the episode, as Forrest Griffin explains in his blog at INSIDE FIGHTING.com, Forrest was actually limited in what matches he could choose. This was because of a rule that stated that any of the fighters who fought more than one round had to have at least three days off. And since episodes 1 & 2 were filmed just a couple of days before, he could only choose certain guys.

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