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UFC Drops Jesse Taylor Again
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 Jesse Taylor a talented wrestler that was on "The Ultimate Fighter 7" with a mma record of (6-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) whose season-ending drunken rampage cost his spot in the show's finale has been released again. The news was first reported in the July 29 print edition of Wrestling Observer, though after a recent loss in his official UFC debut, it had been expected.
During the the Season of The Ulimated Fighter Quinton Jackson had said that Dana White couldn't have a fighter such as Taylor representing the company.
Weeks later, Taylor was given a second chance in the organization and scheduled to fight show runner-up C.B. Dollaway at UFC Fight Night 14. At about the time, Jackson was arrested after a bizarre police chase in California, and Taylor hinted that Jackson had it coming.
Taylor also took a shot at the UFC.
"Oh yeah, it's a big double standard," Taylor said when asked about the Jackson situation and the UFC's support of the fighter. "I'm sure if I were the ex-middleweight champion, I could get away with stuff. I'm sure if I would have done (what Jackson did), I'd be banned."
Those comments -- and doubts that he was following through with his Alcoholics Anonymous meetings -- didn't go over well with UFC management.
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Posted on Friday, August 01, 2008
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