Why was Todd Duffee released so quickly?

One Punch KO · Oct 26, 2010

He's 2-0 in the UFC and still suspended on doctor's orders (broken arm) following the Duffee fight.

They need more blood in the heavyweight division, so I imagine they'll stick him straight back in with someone like Stefan Struve in early 2011.

Beouche · Oct 26, 2010

One Punch KO said: ↑

The saga of Todd Duffee reads like a parody of the hype that exists in the fight game.

Todd Duffee, the hugely muscled, square-jawed heavyweight with a record of 5-0 (5 KOs) steps up to the big leagues, the UFC, for the first time and destroys another prospect, Tim Hague, with the fastest knockout on record.

Half the UFC fanbase jumps on his nuts as the next big thing. Many claim that he is as good a prospect as Cain, Carwin or Dos Santos, despite having seen him fight for exactly seven seconds. Even those who aren't on the bandwagon acknowledge that he has potential.

So the next fight comes around: UFC 114. Mike Russow (12-1, 1 NC ) is a serious heavyweight looking to make a splash after winning his debut, but nobody cares. This fight is all about Duffee, the 4/13 favourite, getting another spectacular KO. Mike Russow has already lost to some Russian guy, and besides, he looks like a fat slob compared to Duffee, Muscle & Fitness's cover model for May.

The fight begins with Rogan and Goldberg hyping up Duffee, and at the start he looks every inch the 'UFC KNOCKOUT ARTIST' Muscle & Fitness claims, bouncing big right hands off the face of the hapless Russow, again and again. But Russow, despite getting his ass kicked, doesn't go down. Rogan notes that Duffee is slowing, and should make sure he doesn't gas himself out.

Going into the third round it looks like it might be a lopsided unanimous decision win instead of a seventh stoppage. What a chin Russow has, people will say, as the Duffee war wagon rolls on to the next challenger.

Then the war wagon crashes as Russow knocks Duffee the **** out.

Nobody can believe it. It's a great, gutsy comeback by Russow, but this is hardy the stuff of Douglas/Tyson. With one punch Duffee, the superman striker, is now Duffee, the glass jawed joke. On the forums former fans leap off the Duffee bandwagon by the hundred, many start slating the man the were salivating over only hours before. A few months later he is quietly released from the UFC due to 'attitude problems'.

And nobody talks about Mike Russow.
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Great post

I was praying the same thing was going to happen to JDS against Big Country. Of course JDS is legit, but would have been fantastic to see him getting KOd late in the third

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