Sadollah, who is on Forrest Griffin’s team,  is through to the quarterfinals of the 16-man middleweight tournament after his second-round KO over Team Rampage’s Gerald Harris.

To check out video of the devastating knee by Sadollah that did in Harris, click here.

To listen to audio of the UFC 84 conference call featuring UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn, Sean Sherk and UFC president Dana White, click here.

It’s hard for me to believe former UFC lightweight champion Sean Sherk when he claims he never took any banned or illegal substances.

Sherk tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone following his bout with Hermes Franca last July. The California State Athletic Commission fined him $2,500 and suspended him for a year. After two delayed appeals, the commission eventually upheld its decision, but voted 4-2 to cut the suspension to six months.

Sherk maintained his innocence throughout the entire ordeal, but that’s what all athletes that test positive for banned substances do.

It wasn’t me, it was the people handling the sample.

It wasn’t me, it was the lab conducting the tests.

It wasn’t me, it was a contaminated supplement and I didn’t even know what I was taking.

IT WASN’T ME! I DIDN’T DO IT! ROID RAGE!!! I mean, FLAXSEED OIL MISUNDERSTANDING!!!

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To check out “Amir Sadollah’s Ultimate Fighter Blog (Episode 7)” from Carlos Arias’ Keep Punching blog, click here.

To check out “IFL ‘New Blood New Battles’ pre-fight analysis” from Larry Vollmer Jr.’s Inside the Octagon blog, click here.

To check out “Pre-fight audio with IFL heavyweight champion Roy ‘Big Country’ Nelson” from Vollmer’s Inside the Octagon blog, click here.

To check out “Pre-fight audio from ‘The Hillbilly Heart Throb’ Brad Imes” from Vollmer’s Inside the Octagon blog, click here.

To check out “McGivern, Schultz among IFL’s best” from David Avila’s MMA notebook for MSNBC.com, click here.

To check out “Salaverry’s last stand?” from Tom Kim’s Ultimate Fan: The Mixed Martial Arts blog, click here.

Sadollah is writing a weekly blog to give ocregister.com readers a behind-the-scenes look at everything that goes down in the house, during training and in the fights.

TUF 7 airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on Spike TV, and Sadollah’s blog posts immediately following each episode.

EPISODE 7

After we lost control of the fight picks, as a team, we were unaware for the first time who would fight when. As I’ve said before, it is a huge advantage, to have that knowledge and control, and for the first time we were in the dark.

The fights were every three days, so since there were only three preliminary fights left, we all knew we would be fighting inside a week or so anyway.

I remember sitting in the living room with the guys the night before, wondering if I would get a feeling of who was going to be fighting. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be picked or not, but I was planning to be picked, so I could skip the surprise and go straight to preparing for the fight.

When Rampage called my name to fight, I was still a little surprised, but not un-prepared mentally. The pick for Gerald to fight me was a good one for their team stylistically. Gerald is an excellent wrestler, very explosive, and has had a lot of high level fights. I was definitely the underdog in this one.

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Affliction vice president Tom Atencio made the announcement on Friday’s edition of “Inside MMA” on HDNet.

“It’s done,” Atencio said. “We have the contracts. We’re ready to go.”

Former PRIDE heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko (27-1) takes on former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia (24-4) in the main event of the 10-bout card. Emelianenko is widely considered one of the great mixed martial artists of all-time, but he is a relatively unknown quantity in the U.S.

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To check out audio of Manny Pacquiao and David Diaz from Tuesday’s news conference in L.A. to hype their June 28 showdown, click here.

My first impression of the Manny Pacquiao-David Diaz fight was not a good one.

Top Rank’s Bob Arum announced the Pacquiao-Diaz fight had been made at the Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez post-fight news conference on March 15 in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao had just won a split decision over Marquez in another highly-competitive fight. People were clamoring for a third fight between Pacquiao and Marquez at the time.

Diaz was fortunate to pull out a majority decision over unheralded Ramon Montano on the Pacquaio-Marquez undercard.

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1. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (WBC/The Ring welterweight champion) 177 (16 of 18 first-place votes)

2. Manny Pacquiao (WBC/The Ring super-featherweight champion) 151.5

3. Joe Calzaghe (WBA/WBC/WBO/The Ring middleweight and The Ring light-heavyweight champion) 142 (2 first-place votes)

4. Miguel Cotto (WBA welterweight champion) 127

5. Juan Manuel Marquez (super-featherweight) 107.5

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To check out “Miller brings the Mayhem, fun to MMA” from David Avila’s MMA notebook for MSNBC.com, click here.

To check out “Amir Sadollah’s Ultimate Fighter Blog (Episode 6)” from ocregister.com click here.

To check out “‘The Ultimate Fighter 7′ audio: Post-fight comments from Jeremy May” from Larry Vollmer Jr.’s Inside the Octagon blog, click here.

Sadollah is writing a weekly blog to give ocregister.com readers a behind-the-scenes look at everything that goes down in the house, during training and in the fights.

TUF 7 airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on Spike TV, and Sadollah’s blog posts immediately following each episode.

EPISODE 6

Riding in the van was the only time of day we got to see the outside world. Our days usually consisted of waking up, going to the gym, coming back and eating, going back to the gym, coming back and eating again.

Other than that, we had nothing to do but sit in the house and look at each other. So twice a day, like excited dogs going to the park, we got in the van and got a little view of the outside world and cracked jokes.

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HDNet, which aired taped coverage of DREAM 1 and DREAM 2 last weekend, has blocked off midnight-5 a.m. to air the event live and in its entirety. HDNet will air a replay of DREAM 3 on Sunday at 1 p.m.

The quarterfinal matchups look very interesting. Norway’s Joachim “Hellboy” Hansen (17-6-1) takes on Philadelphia’s Eddie Alvarez (13-1).

Japanese icon Caol Uno (24-10-4) battles wrestling specialist Mitsuhiro Ishida (16-3-1), who is coming off a unanimous decision over Gilbert Melendez.

Luiz “Buscape” Firmino (12-3) gets a chance to avenge a hotly disputed split decision loss when he takes on Tatsuya Kawajiri (21-4-2).

The final tournament matchup pits Katsuhiko Nagata (4-2) against tournament favorite Shinya Aoki (15-2), who is coming off a unanimous decision over Gesias “JZ” Calvancante on April 29 at DREAM 2.

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