Akira Corassani has been waiting for this moment since the day he left
the house as a cast member of “The Ultimate Fighter 14.” The Twitter
messages, the traffic to his website, the message board postings – all
of it.
As he predicted, his fight with Dustin Neace in the quarterfinals of the
reality show competition has caused a stir. Fans say he tapped to
Neace’s heel hook in the first round. The tape tells the tale.
“Did I think of tapping? Hell yeah, I thought of tapping,” Corassani
today told MMAjunkie.com. “If you look at it –
hundreds and hundreds of times I looked at it – when he’s going to crank
it (and) take it, my heel pops out, and he misses.”