diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/DocumentParser.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/DocumentParser.java
index 9e60ef5caa8..6aa66f20d6f 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/DocumentParser.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/DocumentParser.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexOptions;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexableField;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.CloseableThreadLocal;
-import org.elasticsearch.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.joda.FormatDateTimeFormatter;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
@@ -128,13 +127,6 @@ class DocumentParser implements Closeable {
                 parser.nextToken();
             }
 
-            // try to parse the next token, this should be null if the object is ended properly
-            // but will throw a JSON exception if the extra tokens is not valid JSON (this will be handled by the catch)
-            if (Version.indexCreated(indexSettings).onOrAfter(Version.V_2_0_0_beta1)) {
-                token = parser.nextToken();
-                assert token == null; // double check, in tests, that we didn't end parsing early
-            }
-
             for (MetadataFieldMapper metadataMapper : mapping.metadataMappers) {
                 metadataMapper.postParse(context);
             }
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/source/DefaultSourceMappingTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/source/DefaultSourceMappingTests.java
index f6a4c30c863..6e055f7403d 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/source/DefaultSourceMappingTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/source/DefaultSourceMappingTests.java
@@ -309,18 +309,4 @@ public class DefaultSourceMappingTests extends ESSingleNodeTestCase {
             .endObject().endObject().string();
         assertFalse(parser.parse(mapping).sourceMapper().isComplete());
     }
-
-    public void testSourceObjectContainsExtraTokens() throws Exception {
-        String mapping = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder().startObject().startObject("type").endObject().endObject().string();
-        DocumentMapper documentMapper = createIndex("test").mapperService().documentMapperParser().parse(mapping);
-
-        try {
-            documentMapper.parse("test", "type", "1", new BytesArray("{}}")); // extra end object (invalid JSON)
-            fail("Expected parse exception");
-        } catch (MapperParsingException e) {
-            assertNotNull(e.getRootCause());
-            String message = e.getRootCause().getMessage();
-            assertTrue(message, message.contains("Unexpected close marker '}'"));
-        }
-    }
 }