Episode 4 – After Jesse Taylor defeated Mike Dolce in the opening round of the single elimination middleweight tournament, Team Forrest has control.



Jesse Taylor decides to knock a few drinks back after his victory , and consequently, the first installment of TUF house destruction begins. On a side note, the producers of TUF 7  do a great job of making Jesse Taylor look like a complete dope.



In episode 4,the groundwork is laid out for a feud between Matthew Riddle and Dante Rivera begins.

“Dante’s a character. I just bust his balls and he busts my balls.  It’s fun” says Riddle.

“Riddle is always running his mouth, and who knows what he is even talking about half of the time. He’s pretty sarcastic so I like to
break his chops here and there. “ Claims Rivera.

At this point in the show, it seems like they are ribbing each other in a joking fashion, but maybe this will lead to something more serious down the road. Rivera publicly states that if he ever lost to Matthew Riddle, he would retire.



Let the drama ensue.



Over at the TUF training facility, Rampage pushes his team pretty hard during practice. This allows Rampage to see what his team is made of. The team speculates about the upcoming fight. Since Team Forrest has control, they have to get inside the mind of Griffin and try to figure out who he will select from Team Rampage to fight next.

“Forrest looks stupid, but he isn’t as stupid as he looks…so I am pretty sure he is going to put his best guy against one of my worst
guys.” says Rampage.

*** SPOILER ALERT – If you don’t want to know who is chosen to fight before tonight’s episode, then don’t read any further. ***



















Seriously don’t….

















OK – back to the action.



Forrest Griffin selects Tim Credeur from his team and says Credeur’s opponent will be Matthew Riddle. Earlier in the episode, Riddle was going on and on about how he couldn’t wait to fight; his wish has been granted.



You may recall that Matt Riddle was the guy that broke Dan Simmler’s jaw in episode two; this was one of the worst knockouts in the history of mixed martial arts.





“Tim approached me and thought that him and Matt Riddle would be a good fight and I had no problem with it. Obviously Riddle is a tough kid with heavy hands. He poses some threats to us but Tim is one of our better guys and I think he can take him. He does too and that is the important thing.



“This is going to be an interesting fight.  You know Matt Riddle is a big kid. He is a young strong kid, but he doesn’t have a lot of experience. Credeur is very experienced. This kid has like 15 fights. He has trained with all of these great guys; he has only lost to two really great guys. It’s going to be interesting to see this young aggressive strong kid with only two fights, against a guy with a ton of experience with 15 fights “ says Dana White”





And an interesting fight it was. If this fight is indicative of the fights we are going to see this season, then this will no doubt be the best season of “The Ultimate Fighter”. This fight was a war on the ground and on the feet.



Who won?



Watch and see. “The Ultimate Fighter 7” airs on Spike TV tonight at 10PM EST.