In a move that is nowhere near as shocking as Ken Griffey Jr. being a White Sock or the packers offering Favre money to stay away from football, the UFC has released TUF 7 problem child Jesse Taylor. Dana White and the UFC have always talked about changing the thug-like image of fighters and creating a respectable atmosphere from the media and fans to the fighters. That is hard to accomplish when you have someone on your very popular reality show kicking out car windows. The guy that got drunk and said he was a UFC fighter is no more.

According to MMAJunkie, sources close to Taylor stated that he has pretty much “been let go”. His most recent release came from what seems to be an episode of diarrhea of the mouth when he made negative comments about the UFC and former Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton Jackson. Taylor said “Oh yeah, it’s a big double standard”, “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 rampage did) I would be banned.” Turns out these comments were made at the wrong time and made the UFC look at the 0-1 (in the UFC) fighter and decide to part ways.

Taylor could be the next post-UFC fighter to search for work outside of the octagon. He does have a solid wrestling background and could be an asset to an MMA organization if he can improve his fight game while using his name to market himself. He does not have the skills to fight against the big name fighters around the world outside of the UFC, but used correctly, he could generate popularity through his ex-TUF namesake and work his way up in another organization.

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Coming from “The Prodigy“, a member of The MMA Boards in response to episode 11 of the Ultimate Fighter. In this episode, we witnessed a very drunk Jesse Taylor act like “Coco the monkey” as he urinated on himself and attempted to drown himself in the hot tub.

Thank god we have guys who can piss their pants, kick the windows out of limo’s, and completely trash a perfectly good house are here………if it wasn’t for guys like them holding the sport together, a guy like Kimbo would tear it all down.

Well said. Here’s the entire thread … beware of episode 12 rumors/spoilers!