Amir Sadollah Comes of Age
The seventh season of Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter, which concludes in tonight’s UFC Ultimate Fighter Season 7 Finale has had more than its share of twists. Not only did the show originally force thirty-two contestants to fight for a spot on the popular MMA show, in a late surprise, Southern California’s Jesse Taylor was kicked of the show for reckless behavior unbecoming of the UFC.
Another unexpected outcome on the show was the ascension of Richmond, Virginia’s Amir Sadollah, who survived the rigors of the show and now finds himself competing for the title of The Ultimate Fighter and a long-term contract with the UFC tonight.
Sadollah entered The Ultimate Fighter with a record of no professional MMA fights. He was familiar to me however, as prior to moving out to San Diego I lived in Northern Virginia and would travel down to a very small MMA promotion called Combat Sports Challenge, where I saw Sadollah fight several times. I do not recall ever seeing him lose back then, which must have been back in 2005, including in his fight against a very tough amateur fighter from my own gym at the time (FightWorks).
In any case I thought I would share some old photos from those days of Amir Sadollah in a victory against an unknown amateur fighter. All photos are courtesy of Chris Curtis.
Don’t put your head down and one arm up like that! It could get you triangl-…
…never mind.
Amir Sadollah’s hand is raised by Lloyd Irvin black belt and referee Mike Moses.
Good luck to all the fighters on tonight’s UFC card in Las Vegas, and good luck with your predictions here on MMAPredictions.com.
- Caleb 
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