Todd Duffee cut by the UFC

"Emotionally, I'm hurt," Duffee said. "I'm hurt more than anything because I don't know why. As a man, you just want to hear why so you can understand."

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"They had talked about me fighting Madsen," Duffee said. "I asked if I could get some time.

"I had a knee injury going into the Russow fight. I'm not making any excuses because I lost that fight, and all props to Mike, but I definitely feel like it affected my gameplan and my mentality going into the fight. I didn't want that to happen again with Madsen. I wanted to be able to go out there and fight to my full potential instead of just boxing, basically. I asked for more time, and as far as I knew, they had granted it to me."

"I've lost a lot of things this year," Duffee said. "I went from losing the biggest fight of my life to losing my dad two weeks later to losing my best friend a week after that. I lost a coach, and now I've lost my job. At this point, it isn't the worst thing that could ever happen to me. There are people who would kill to be in my situation, and I just have to stay positive and keep moving forward - tuck your chin and keep moving forward.

 

This is surprising. I mean he was being built up as this protege at one point and then one fluke loss and he's cut ???

 

It's not the loss. I hear he is very difficult to work with.

 

Suspicious, probably money-related,

Regardless he'll be back in a year with a bigger contract.

He's definitely a top 5 HW prospect in the sport right now, regardless of getting his obligatory prospect loss.

 

Weird. Gabe Ruediger bombs out of TUF, gets iced by a bodyshot from The Young Assassin, and gets STEAMROLLED by Joe Lauzon, and yet he gets another shot at UFC 123.

Duffee loses once and gets cut? There's obviously much more to that story.

 

Apparently Dana wasn't pleased at the passive-aggressive gripes about money. Duffee made it pretty clear he wasn't being paid well.

 

TLC is right on the money. Strikeforce will jump on Duffee, mark my words.

 

Duffee can't expect to make a whole lot getting knocked out by nobodies. Strikeforce will surely take him though, no doubt.

 

Assuming he even wants to go there.

It's more likely in my opinion that he will stay on the independent circuit for about a year, then jump back in on a 40/40 3 or 4 fight deal.

 

Thats a very probable situation. Matters what kind of money he gets offered would be my guess.

 

What took the UFC so long. When you can beat fat bums like the last guy he fought he needs to be cut.