Just as the audience might be feeling an ounce of sympathy for May, May reveals to the camera that his knee isn’t nearly as bad as he’s been making it out to be. He says he’s been using the bum knee as an excuse to pace himself in training,

“I’m a sandbagging son of a *itch”

PRE-FIGHT

May and Brown take turns talking to the camera about their strategies. May is expecting Brown to fight off of emotion. He thinks Brown will come out with a flurry of fists. He seems to think this will tire Brown out, so his plan is to fight a nice technical, patient fight with lots of Jeremy-Jitsu.

Brown says he wants to beat Jeremy at his own game, which is a surprise, because he’s not known for his ground game. But, to counter May’s belief that he’ll get tired he warns,

“If I’m tired, I guarantee you he’ll be more tired”

Brown’s last words for May are foreboding,

“Good Night”

FIGHT

With Herb Dean officiating, Jeremy May enters the ring dancing like Apollo Creed. Brown’s face is fierce and the much anticipated grudge match is moments away…

Jeremy May (Team Rampage)- (6-5) vs Matt Brown (Team Forrest)- (9-6)

Round 1

Unlike his prediction, May decides to eschew patience and comes out throwing wild haymakers. Brown stays composed and eats a few punches, but stays composed.

Up against the cage, Brown throws a quick right that grazes May. May goes down, but doesn’t seem hurt. In fact, he stays on the ground trying to bait Brown to join him for some Jeremy-Jitsu. Brown plays it careful, but eventually jumps down into May’s half-guard.

Brown works into top position and then just as he predicted tries to beat Jeremy at his own game when he goes for an arm bar. May escapes, and stands over Brown. Exactly the opposite of what we expected is happening- Brown on the ground and May standing.

May tries to punch down on Brown, but Brown grabs hold of his arm, again going for an arm bar. May picks Brown up and slams him. In his best work of the fight, May gets on top of Brown and uses some effective ground and pound.

After weathering some of May’s punches, brown gets back to standing. The fight goes back to the ground, this time with Brown on top. Brown gets into May’s half guard and throws a few punches. Forrest and his teammates are yelling for Brown to get back to his feet where he can use his stand-up game. Forrest is so frustrated with Brown, he starts shrieking at the top of his lungs,