Nick Klein

("The foulest stench is in the air / the funk of 40,000 years / And grisly ghouls from every tomb / are closing in to seal your doom.")

Every Thursday morning, Team Rampage member Gerald Harris blogs his reactions to each new episode of The Ultimate Fighter 7 on CagePotato.com. Here's what he had to say about last night's ep, in which CB Dollaway got his first inevitable win and the quarterfinal matchups were announced.

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Let me start by apologizing for not speaking on the Yarbrough-Schultz fight in last week's blog. I was really going through some things — it's hard to walk around knowing the outcome of the show and holding it from your friends and family. You're drowned with questions and angry people wanting to know what happened, and also claiming to know the outcome. Last week was a shock to a lot of people close to me but not to many outside of that circle. I learned a lot from the experience and took the loss as motivation. I was also mistaken on my words threatening to hurt Amir after the bout. I was being very sarcastic and I’m very humble about the incident.

Now, it was no surprise that CB was fighting Nick Klein this week. The only surprise was "who the hell is Nick Klein?" Well, let me fill you in. Klein is a tough dude — we were actually respecting him a lot, because he was very quiet in the house. Quiet people are unpredictable and are usually hiding something...like talent. Klein had a lot of it and even earned the name "Killa Klein" for his random funny outbursts. I hate to use the word "underdog" on this show because we're all at the bottom of the mountain trying to become UFC fighters. In this case even Klein felt like an underdog because of CB’s high profile and #1 pick status from Rampage.

Most of you already know about CB. I didn’t know much about him other than his great wrestling before the show, but I would soon find out about his grappling and Muay Thai skills. I thought that he was just another wrestler, but after training with him I noticed that he was well rounded. He hits hard as hell, has great subs, and he's meaner than a muthaf*$#a when it's time to fight. He has this alter ego called the "DOBERMAN" and I saw that as he entered the cage.