Hello once again young and old people, males and females of the world. I hope you are enjoying the TUF 7 experience. I am very busy being a father and a fighter so always writing these blogs are tough for me and things these days are very hectic. However, I wanted to let you people's know the inner works of JT money and I am sure you people are curious as well. Well I am still in the process of figuring myself out as well, because life is a journey and everything I have chosen and done is definitely a battle, figuratively and literally.

Let me get to the last two fights first and than I will get to all the drama second. We left off with me, and Amir getting berths to the semi-final fights. Now we were on to the last episode before semi-final action took place. This episode was the one with Jeremy May and I getting into it and the final quarterfinal fight of CB Dollaway vs. Cale Yarborough. The fight itself was good and really showcased CB's skills. CB was very dominant in the fight and seemed to have decent stand up and a great ground game. I was on Cale's Team and being the wrestler of the group we tried to devise a game plan to beat CB. However, C.B. enforced his will on Cale right from the get go and did not stop. To Cale's defense he has much more than what he showed vs. CB. I worked with Cale a lot to help him better his ground and wrestling game, and Cale's Stand up is very diverse. Cale is young and very talented and I believe with time and experience he will only get better and will be a force to reckon with in the near future. I also feel Cale's head just wasn't on straight for a variety of reasons. But let me remind you about all the hype surrounding CB, now and definitely during the show and fights. Cale, being young and fairly new to the fight game was just not ready for this fight. Give Cale some time, some experience, and some good training and I guarantee he will have a successful mma future. Right from the get go of the show there was a lot of hype surrounding CB. Being a formidable fighter and loving competition right away I wanted to test myself, what better way than scrapping him. I befriended CB quite well and actually like the guy, but right when he was picked first I wanted to prove that notion wrong. Every time I woke up to every time I went to sleep I would hear CB's name mentioned. I heard his name mentioned quite a bit and a lot by Riddle. I know he's a good fighter but it's very frustrating when your fighting well, and doing your training and all you hear is how good this guy is. All the credit to CB and his supporting team, but being a competitive athlete and wanting to be the best I definitely would relish the opportunity to fight the best, prevail and prove people wrong. We also saw Tim Creduer fight Dan Cramer. Dan is another tough, young kid who proved me wrong. I knew he was tough, but he's definitely a gamer and fun fighter to watch. The ?pretty boy? let everything out there every time he fought and did it once again with tough Tim. His only downfall was that he brawled so hard he seemed to gas himself before the first round. Dan came out swinging for the fences and Tim ate quite a few and landed some good shots on Dan. After the plethora of punches thrown by Dan they started to grapple and at first Dan seemed to be doing better than Tim in grappling as well. However, Tim is sneaky, and very versed in jiu jitsu. Dan left an ankle open and I knew Tim was going to take it home with him. He got the tap. Tim is tough and showed that he will not stop fighting; the only way to stop Tim is to knock him out or beat upon him the whole entire time. Tim is a very tough man and I had to fight him next in the semis, I knew it was going to be a war.

SEMI-FINAL FIGHT, DRAMA, AND ME GETTING SMASHED

After the quarter fights we got to pick the fights. I wanted to take out CB and fight the hype and toughest guy in the house. When Dana has us in the room he asked us whom we wanted to fight and I informed him. He asked me who was the easiest road for me to the semis and the question threw me off. The plan for us was for me the fight CB, because I felt I could beat him and match up wise it was the best fight, plus I wanted the challenge. I told Dana the truth for I am not a good liar and the truth was the easiest rode for me to the finals would have been my good friend and teammate Amir Sadollah. That was not the case and I ended up being paired with my best friend in the house, bunkmate and training partner Tim Credeur. Honestly, Tim tapped me a bunch during training. I felt that was a good thing to be tapped during practice cause once you get tapped you get to figure out what your doing wrong and how to prevent that. The edge I had was the mind game on my last two foes. I believe that since Tim, and Dante for that matter, figured they could tap me, however during the fight I come possessed and a new, and smarter JTMONEY unfolds. I knew for the fight Tim would not tap me, nor Dante. Fighting Tim was strange. I never really had to fight my friends, but when you think about it I fight my friends everyday in the practice room so I figured this was no different other than we would be getting paid money and we would be punching, kicking, kneeing, etc. to finish the fight. I would consider Tim a lifelong friend now and I feel fighting a friend only brings them closer; for we felt together the great euphoria of battle. And in the cage it's all business. Money out of my kids pocket or his pocket, and I will be damned to let anyone steal from me. It was strange sleeping below my opponent the night before the fight and for my opponent cooking me dinner on nights leading up to the battle, yet this is what we do for a living. Tim even showed me a triangle counter, which I believe I used at one point in the fight. Tim truly is a great guy and I miss the fella. Jiu jitsu changes when you're getting hit in the face. In the fight, I did not let up. I ended up using my wrestling again, and until I fight a very worthy wrestler or someone who could stop my takedowns I will stand-up. My stand-up is actually game and cannot wait to use it, but for these fights I stuck to the old motto, ?if it ain't broke don't fix it?. I took Tim down immediately and beat on him a while. He actually caught me in a armbar it was deep (from the fight on TV, you cant tell) and I was worried, however I vowed to not get arm bared in a fight again and fought my way out of it. I beat on him the whole first round and he is one tough SOB. A lot of people would have been finished by that beating but he kept coming round after round and even reversed me, got my back a couple times, and full mounted me. I was not going to quit and was relentless on my attack and mostly offensive, landing punch after elbow, than punch, but Tim would not quit. Working with Tim all this time definitely helped me be able to beat him in our fight. Much props to Tim and watch out for this dangerous foe. Now I got my ticket to the FINALS!

Now onto the drama and me getting loaded. Well, I promised y'all in an earlier blog not to discuss Jeremy May again because that is all he was there for: attention. He is not a fighter at all and if he wants attention or to be in the movies he should try out for an acting part but I bet he's bad at that as well. I gave Jeremy May chance after chance to see if he was an okay guy. Every time he baffled me by being a complete moron. I don't care if the guy has mental problems, social problems, or is just retarded, he should have not been on the show. He is an ignorant bastard and will go nowhere in fighting or life. If this was the street that kick would of landed. Okay enuff said about that situation and that class act. So I got drunk. Obviously alcohol and me is a bad combo. I really become a caveman when I drink the stuff, and lately have really been reflecting about drinking in general. I get crazy! While yes it is fun, and fun for people to watch, and I might even be able to get away with drinking and eating shitty, I feel I could be even better if I cut that out. There is nothing to really say about that, other than what you see is what you get. If you hang out with me and drink beers with me your in for one long, crazy, and fun night. A night to remember for the better or the worse. Oh yes, and you all caught a glimpse of my Poetry at the end of this blog I will leave you with a poem to love. I will also be writing poetry regularly and you could keep on checking your new favorite website (yojtmoney.com) to check out the always fascinating poems. And my blog on the TUF 7 experience will be posted in the next week or so, plus poems, and believe me you all do not want to miss this last blog I write.

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As I walk with feet
I sorrow for the nature
That trembles and soars and smothers and loves
For sweet breath of the mountains that crumble and cry
Must keep fighting cause we all will die
Lie after lie it just don't make sense
But this earth we live in has no hence

For violence, love, death or misery we will keep on coming
Hither thee to that far place for the trees that turn upside down
And yield to stop signs with a frown
 
For we have no measure or meaning or sense
But will keep writing for pleasure and am tense
So this is a poem for thee not to understand cause what is this world

Goodbye to the land