The old adage when it comes to a traitor among friends is called a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” but given that Quinton “Rampage” Jackson trains out of Wolfslair MMA Academy, it seems there may be a spy disguised as a loyal Wolf teammate. Rampage claimed to Yahoo Sports! that he made up a hand injury that he only spoke of in his gym when four hours later, his manager, Anthony McGann received a phone call concerning the “injury” from Joe Silva . When McGann assured Silva the hand was fine, he asked who had informed him of the injury, to which Silva replied, it was Jon Jones‘ manager, Malki Kawa. Rampage says:
One of my friends was talking to Jon Jones’ manager recently, and Jon Jones’ manager was saying that he knows everything that is going on in our camp. He said he had spies in our camp and he knew everything that was going on. That got me thinking. How did he know about my hand injury that fast? It wasn’t on the Internet, and yet he knew about my hand injury right away. The UFC people were in Brazil, which is why it probably took them four hours to call me.
That shows me two things: They have spies in my camp, one, and two, they’re dumb as hell, because they didn’t know how to use the information correctly and to wait. He called right away, running to Joe Silva. Joe Silva called my manager right away.”
Rampage made up the hand injury story after receiving a message from someone via Twitter that Jones had a spy in Rampage’s camp. Coincidentally enough, Jones’ manager, Kawa disputes he has any spies and that he only learned of a hand injury via Twitter. Kawa claims:
“I promise to God, I have no spy in that camp,” Kawa said. “It’s completely and totally untrue. There is nothing to it at all. It’s funny he said that, though, because we’ve heard he has had old training partners of Jon coming in to work with him. We don’t care and it’s kind of hilarious he’s doing this. But I can guarantee you there is nothing at all that is true about this other than that I called Joe Silva after someone put out a thing on Twitter that Rampage was injured and pulling out. I wanted to know what was up, but it was no more than that. That is it.”
Rampage, who feels betrayed and thinks he knows who the spy is, doesn’t want to call out the person, but he does want this story out for the fans to respond via Twitter. Rampage said : “Of course they’re going to say they aren’t doing it, but we’ll put the story out there to the fans and let them decide.” He says he wants fans to send him messages via Twitter on whether or not they believe Jones has a spy.
Sounds like a Twitter bonus could be in Rampage’s future and an army of Rampage Twitter fans may help get into Jones’ head. Ah… the many useful wonders of social media.