LAS VEGAS - Middleweight Drew (The Massacre) McFedries made short work of Marvin (The Beastman) Eastman on Saturday, stopping the former CFL running back via TKO at one minute eight seconds of the first round on the undercard of "The Ultimate Fighter" Season 7 finale at The Palms.

McFedries ran straight at Eastman when the mixed martial arts fight started, but missed with his punch. Eastman, a muscular Las Vegas prison guard who once played for the Calgary Stampeders, scooped him up and slammed him.

McFedries (7-3) got up and regained his composure. Then he hurt Eastman (15-8-1), connecting with punches until the 38-year-old former UNLV Rebel went down.

"I couldn't waste time with him," said McFedries, bouncing back from a January loss to Canadian Patrick Cote. "He's so strong, it's ridiculous."

The card's main event pitted former middleweight champion Evan Tanner against Kendall Grove.

In the co-main event, the reality TV show finale, middleweight Amir Sadollah was matched with C.B. Dollaway.

Sadollah, a former surgical technician who made the show through the open casting call, was to have met Jesse Taylor in the final. But Taylor was given the boot after a drunken night out two days after the show's taping had ended, when he was caught on video kicking out the window of a limo. The UFC also said he harassed patrons at a Las Vegas hotel.

With Taylor ousted, losing semifinalists Tim Credeur and C.B. Dollaway met to determine who replaced Taylor, with Dollaway advancing via a unanimous decision.

Earlier, welterweight Dustin Hazelett stopped Josh Burkman with a slick armbar at 4:46 of the second round after an entertaining fight that saw Hazelett (13-4) win the first round - almost choking out his opponent - and Burkman (20-6) rallying in the second until he left an arm dangling and paid for it.

Matt Brown, a Season 7 grad dropping down to welterweight, pounded out a win over Season 6 alumnus Matt Arroyo in an all-action contest that had the early sparse crowd standing. Arroyo had the best of the early going but seemed to fade when a slightly battered Brown (10-6) found his range.

Referee Herb Dean stopped it at 3:40 of the second round, with Arroyo (3-2) absorbing punishment on his back at the fence. Dean could have ended it a half-dozen punches earlier.

It was Brown's second career victory over Arroyo.

Jiu-jitsu ace Dean (The Boogeyman) Lister stopped veteran middleweight Jeremy Horn via guillotine choke at 3:52 of the first round. The loss was the third straight - and fourth in five fights - for the 32-year-old Horn, whose record fell to 88-18-5.

"I saw the neck and I took it," said Lister (11-5).

Middleweight Rob Kimmons (21-3), in his UFC debut, submitted Rob Yundt (7-2) via guillotine choke at 3:58 of the first round.

NOTES: The Cale Yarbrough-Tim Credeur bout was cancelled at the last minute. Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, said Credeur was taking a prescription drug banned by the commission ... The crowd at The Pearl included light-heavyweight champion Quinton (Rampage) Jackson, former light-heavyweight title-holder Tito (The Huntington Beach Bad Boy) Ortiz and girlfriend Jenna Jameson, and former heavyweight champion Frank Mir.

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