It appears that one of the reasons that the Ultimate Fighting Championship didn’t push to book a rematch between former light heavyweight champions Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (31-8) and “Suga” Rashad Evans (15-1-1) was because promotion President Dana White thought their first fight was a “snoozefest.”
Both Jackson and Evans squared off last May at UFC 114 in a #1 contender bout after opposing one another as coaches on the tenth season of the Spike TV reality series “The Ultimate Fighter.”
This was a highly anticipated fight as fans expected sparks to fly between the two once both fighters entered the octagon. What they got was something much less with Evans grinding out a unanimous decision win over Jackson in the end.
In a recent interview with USAToday.com, White was asked about why the UFC chose to book Jackson against Matt Hamill instead of a rematch between Jackson and Evans.
“Talking’s fun before the fight, but if you do all this talking and then you go in there and don’t fight, who wants to see that (crap) again? Rampage-Rashad, the (freaking) snoozefest? I don’t want to see that (freaking) fight again. Matt Hamill and Rampage might not talk a bunch of (crap) about each other before the fight, but when have you not seen Matt Hamill fight? Matt Hamill’s going to go in there and try to beat him.”