diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
index 8df9eeb951a..54c53cc4a10 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
@@ -491,22 +491,6 @@ public class HRegion implements HeapSize { // , Writable{
     MonitoredTask status = TaskMonitor.get().createStatus(
         "Initializing region " + this);
 
-    long nextSeqId = -1;
-    try {
-      nextSeqId = initializeRegionInternals(reporter, status);
-      return nextSeqId;
-    } finally {
-      // nextSeqid will be -1 if the initialization fails.
-      // At least it will be 0 otherwise.
-      if (nextSeqId == -1) {
-        status
-            .abort("Exception during region " + this.getRegionNameAsString() + " initialization.");
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  private long initializeRegionInternals(final CancelableProgressable reporter, MonitoredTask status)
-      throws IOException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
     if (coprocessorHost != null) {
       status.setStatus("Running coprocessor pre-open hook");
       coprocessorHost.preOpen();
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
index 3e3f32b6077..1373f1ad397 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter.NullComparator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter.PrefixFilter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter.SingleColumnValueFilter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.monitoring.MonitoredRPCHandler;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.monitoring.MonitoredTask;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.monitoring.TaskMonitor;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.RegionScannerImpl;
@@ -88,7 +87,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.PairOfSameType;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Threads;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
-import org.mockito.Mockito;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 
@@ -3461,45 +3459,6 @@ public class TestHRegion extends HBaseTestCase {
         }
       }
   }
-  
-  /**
-   * Testcase to check state of region initialization task set to ABORTED or not if any exceptions
-   * during initialization
-   * 
-   * @throws Exception
-   */
-  @Test
-  public void testStatusSettingToAbortIfAnyExceptionDuringRegionInitilization() throws Exception {
-    HRegionInfo info = null;
-    try {
-      FileSystem fs = Mockito.mock(FileSystem.class);
-      Mockito.when(fs.exists((Path) Mockito.anyObject())).thenThrow(new IOException());
-      HTableDescriptor htd = new HTableDescriptor(tableName);
-      htd.addFamily(new HColumnDescriptor("cf"));
-      info = new HRegionInfo(htd.getName(), HConstants.EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY,
-          HConstants.EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY, false);
-      Path path = new Path(DIR + "testStatusSettingToAbortIfAnyExceptionDuringRegionInitilization");
-      // no where we are instantiating HStore in this test case so useTableNameGlobally is null. To
-      // avoid NullPointerException we are setting useTableNameGlobally to false.
-      SchemaMetrics.setUseTableNameInTest(false);
-      region = HRegion.newHRegion(path, null, fs, conf, info, htd, null);
-      // region initialization throws IOException and set task state to ABORTED.
-      region.initialize();
-      fail("Region initialization should fail due to IOException");
-    } catch (IOException io) {
-      List<MonitoredTask> tasks = TaskMonitor.get().getTasks();
-      for (MonitoredTask monitoredTask : tasks) {
-        if (!(monitoredTask instanceof MonitoredRPCHandler)
-            && monitoredTask.getDescription().contains(region.toString())) {
-          assertTrue("Region state should be ABORTED.",
-              monitoredTask.getState().equals(MonitoredTask.State.ABORTED));
-          break;
-        }
-      }
-    } finally {
-      HRegion.closeHRegion(region);
-    }
-  }
 
   private void putData(int startRow, int numRows, byte [] qf,
       byte [] ...families)