Dana asks him whom he would like to face. CB thinks Tim Credeur would be a good fight.

Tim Credeur comes in next. He wants to fight Amir.

Amir Sadollah is asked who he thinks is the toughest fighter left. Without hesitation he says, “ME”.

Jesse Taylor comes in last. He thinks he’s already set to fight Dollaway, so when asked who he wants to fight he says CB. Dana isn’t satisfied with this match-up. He presses Taylor,

“Who is your easiest way to the finals, stylistically?”

Taylor, “Amir, but I’m here to fight the toughest guy.”

Having consulted the final four, Dana asks Forrest who the toughest remaining fighter is? They both agree it is CB. When Dana asks who’s the next toughest they both seem stumped.

Rampage finally arrives. Sometimes you have to wonder how seriously he takes this tournament. He sounds a little like my 9-year-old nephew when explaining his reason for being late,

“What happened was there was a lot of good TV on and I was flipping channels, and I overslept because I was watching TV.”

The fighters gather in a semi-circle as Dana gets ready to announce the match-ups:

Jesse Taylor vs Tim Credeur

CB Dollaway vs Amir Sadollah

Forrest doesn’t get his way and he can’t believe that all his brown nosing didn’t pay off. Maybe he should have stayed up late and watched TV too.

ANALYSIS

We started with 32 fighters, and now we are down to the final four. Team Forrest has his top three fighters left, but is any of them good enough to beat Rampage’s only remaining fighter, CB Dollaway.

If we were to play odds makers the fighters would most likely be seeded like this:

# 1 CB Dollaway (8-0) (All American NCAA wrestler)

# 2 Tim Credeur (12-2) (Jiu-Jitsu black belt and fighter with the most experience)

# 3 Amir Sadollah (2-0) (Undefeated amateur kick boxer with the least experience)

# 4 Jesse Taylor (8-2) (Two-time JUCO All American wrestler)

** All records include each fighter’s two victories on the TUF 7 show.

While CB Dollaway is the heavy favorite, if one were to predict a dark horse based on strength of competition so far, it’d have to be Amir Sadollah.

While CB has defeated two of Team Forrest’s weaker fighters (Nick Klein and Cale Yarbrough), Amir has pulled off two impressive victories over guys many thought he’d lose to. First he beat one of Team Rampage’s best, Gerald “Slam Happy” Harris, and then he submitted Team Forrest’s most ferocious fighter, “Madman” Matt Brown.