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Jon Koppenhaver was cut from the UFC |
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
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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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