Earlier today, it was reported that “The Ultimate Fighter: Season 6” fighter Jon “War Machine” Koppenhaver was cut from the UFC by the Vice President of Talent Relations, Joe Silva.

The reasoning behind the cut appears to be two-fold.

Earlier this week, in wake of the tragic passing of Evan Tanner, Koppenhaver posted a MySpace bulletin expressing his opinion on the matter, implying that he believed Tanner’s death to be a result of suicide.

“What else is an underpaid fighter supposed to do at the end of his career?” War Machine wrote in the posting. “Cash in his 401K? Collect social security? Start to work some [expletive] job for 10 bucks an hour? (This) [expletive] ain’t boxing, and if you’re not Chuck [Liddell] or Tito Ortiz, you don’t get paid dick.”

Within a matter of hours, he had removed the bulletin.

Not surprisingly, this was just another in a long line of posts where War Machine “spoke his mind”. In this case, it was claimed that he removed it once he learned more of the truth.

“I took it down because … when I first wrote it, I didn’t know the whole story,” War Machine said. “I had just heard that they had found his bike and that they had found him in the middle of nowhere. I thought, ‘[Expletive] man. He must’ve killed himself. He must’ve been depressed. That’s what I figured, so that’s why I wrote that bulletin. The once I got the [expletive] comments and they got the story out where he said he was going on a quest and all that stuff and it was debatable on whether it was an accident or not, I took it down.” (As posted on mmajunkie.com)

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