Referee Herb Dean expertly observed the hold from only inches away and as soon as Dollaway tapped Sadollah's leg once signifying his submission, he rightly jumped in, stopped the fight and saved Dollaway's extended arm from further damage. The charismatic Sadollah improved his professional record to 2-0 with the win but was initially too overcome with emotion to find something characteristically funny to say.
"Evan Tanner is not among the biggest favorites on the UFC TUF 7 Finale card," points out Gambling911.com's Dan Shapiro. "You have guys like Diego Sanchez set at -500 odds."
Both Tanner and his opponent, Kendall Grove, are fighting for their jobs.
Tanner is a former UFC Middleweight and USWF Heavyweight champion with a professional record of 32 wins and 7 losses. He is also the first American to win the Pancrase Neo-Blood tournament in Tokyo, Japan.
Grove used impressively effective scrappiness in the first two rounds to keep Tanner at bay and hurt with a plethora of both conventional Muay Thai clinch striking and unconventional strikes like one-legged knees and up kicks. In the second round, it appeared that a right hook to the temple and follow-up strikes from Grove would end Tanner's night.
But though the bearded yeoman was down, he proved not yet out as he survived the round. In the third and final round, Tanner managed his best efforts of the fight, landing an effective straight cross to the head of Grove on multiple occasions.
In other action, welterweight Diego Sanchez scored a third-round stoppage win over Luigi Fioravanti, lightweight Spencer Fisher beat Jeremy Stephens by unanimous decision, Matt Riddle beat his TUF 7 cast mate Dante Rivera by decision and Dustin Hazelett submitted Josh Burkman with an arm bar. TUF 7's Matt Brown also stopped Matt Arroyo, Andrew McFedries TKO'd Marvin Eastman, Dean Lister submitted Jeremy Horn and Rob Kimmons stopped Rob Yundt with a guillotine choke.
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