"The Ultimate Fighter 7" runner-up CB Dollaway (0-1 UFC) will meet ousted finalist Jesse Taylor at a recently announced UFC: Ultimate Fight Night 14 event.
MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the July 19 fight with sources close to both fighters.
UFC: Ultimate Fight Night 14, which features a main event between UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and James Irvin (in a non-title light-heavyweight bout), takes place at The Palms Las Vegas and was organized to counter the Golden Boy Affliction: Banned card.
The Taylor-Dollaway fight had been rumored for much of the past week.
Taylor, who defeated Tim Credeur for a ticket into the finals of "The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest," was kicked out of the finals when Dana White received a tape of the drunken fighter kicking out a window of a limousine and harassing guests at Palace Station, a casino owned by Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, the UFC's primary owners. The rampage took place after the show finished airing.
White, though, said he planned to give Taylor a second chance.
It'll come with Dollaway, the guy who defeated Credeur to take Taylor's spot in the live finale. There, Dollaway suffered a defeat to show winner Amir Sadollah - the same fighter who knocked him out of the show's semifinal round. It was the Arizona State University All-American wrestler's first career loss.
Source: mmajunkie.com