Not Your Sandbox Mr. White

For anyone reading this blog you most likely know of Jesse Taylor and the events that accrued on The Ultimate Fighter Season 7. For those of you that don’t here is some info to get you up to speed. Jesse Taylor was well on his way to the finals of the TUF 7, winning all four fights while on the show and setting himself up to face Amir Sadollah for a UFC contract. The final bout was all set to go but there was still one more episode left to go in the season. Teasers on Spike showed what looked like a car window being broken with the voice over “the shocking ending that you can’t miss”. Fans would come to find out that the night after the show ended filming a group of cast member’s went out for a night in Vegas before leaving. During this night, Taylor got into a drunken rage. He kicked out a window of a rented limousine and then cause a mess inside a bar screaming that he was a UFC fighter. For his actions Dana White removed Jesse from the finals and told him that he was not mentally ready to be part of the UFC.

You might be wondering if there is a point to all this. Well yes there is. Junie Browning, a 155 pound fighter, in the short amount of time he had been on TUF8 has cause enough mayhem to have him booted from the show. In the five episodes that have aired we have seen him trash the house, pick fights with almost every person in the house (including trying to drown Ryan Bader) and jump into the cage after a fight because he was upset with the out come. Why has Junie not been removed? Because he is a exciting fighter.

The true reason Dana cut Jesse Taylor is because Jesse is a boring fighter. During his time on the show Jesse Won his fights by a boring ground and pound style. He took his opponents down and laid on them until he could find a submission or until the fight was over. Mr. White knew that with Taylor being in the finals it would be more of the same and he would be awarding a contract to a fighter he didn’t want around. The video of his drunken rampage must have been the golden ticket to Dana White. Dana could save the season and have an excuse for doing so. The events of TUF8 and action of Junie Browning only prove this point even more.

More proof can be found in the events around Quinton Jackson. Jackson was one of the coaches on TUF7 and had also made a remark about Taylor saying that Dana wouldn’t want someone like that representing the company. Ironically, after the show was done taping Quinton was arrested for reckless driving and hit and run. He even led officers on a chase while driving on the wrong side of the street and on sidewalks in his Ford F-350. A pregnant women who was involved in on of the hit and run had a has miscarriage. How did the UFC management punish Quinton Jackson for his actions? By giving him the possibility of having a third fight with Wanderlei Silva and there by putting a quarter million in his pocket.

Dana White needs to stop playing around with fighters and the UFC like its his own personal sandbox. He could get away with such things when the promotion wasn’t as popular but now the fans are a little more wise to the way White has been treating some of the fighters now a days.

I would like to end this post on a lighter note and post a video of one of the greatest fights that has ever happen on The Ultimate Fighter reality show: Jesse Talyor vs. A Dishwasher.