It’s rare to find a fighter with the talent, personality and charisma of former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. Over the years, Jackson has entertained fans with memorable interviews and highlight-worthy finishes. Unfortunatel…
It’s rare to find a fighter with the talent, personality and charisma of former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
Over the years, Jackson has entertained fans with memorable interviews and highlight-worthy finishes.
Unfortunately, critics love to linger on the dark parts of his career, but the darkness can’t overtake the light in such a radiant career like Jackson’s.
If he truly decides to hang up his gloves at age 35, Jackson will go down as one of MMA‘s all-time greats.
Thankfully, Jackson is only 32 years of age, and fans will get another two years of possibly seeing him howl over downed opponents.
Jackson is set to main event UFC 130 against Matt Hamill. In preparation for the upcoming showdown, we celebrate and remember the top 10 fight moments in the storied career of Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
Is there anything that gets the fans more upset than seeing a fighter not competing to the best of their abilities?Go watch UFC 90, 97, and 112 for some examples.Or even worse, is there anything worse in combat sports when you know one of the fighters …
Is there anything that gets the fans more upset than seeing a fighter not competing to the best of their abilities?
Go watch UFC 90, 97, and 112 for some examples.
Or even worse, is there anything worse in combat sports when you know one of the fighters is there just to collect a paycheck?
For an example, watch UFC 130 next Saturday night.
In recent interviews, Rampage has made it well known that he is not thrilled about fight Matt Hamill. He has also made it clear that he is just about done with MMA period.
He would rather be hamming it up on the big screen. To Rampage, this whole MMA thing that made him famous is just something to tide him over until Hollywood comes knocking at his door again.
Apparently, headlining yet another UFC event is not enough to get Rampage excited about fighting again. Jackson recently told Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour “…not a whole lot gets me excited.”
News flash Quinton—when your name is tied to the headline of a pay-per-view, it is your job to get excited. Or at very least, it is your job make the fans believe you are excited.
After all, if you can’t get fans excited about your fight, who is going to want to watch it?
Odds are if you are reading this, you have a job. It may not be the most glorious job, but it pays the bills. If you hate your job, you may not give it your all, you may complain to your friends about it, but would you ever tell your boss “this job sucks?”
Of course you wouldn’t. Because if you did that, you wouldn’t have a job.
What Rampage is doing is telling all the paying fans out there “this job sucks,” yet still expects us to pay $50 or $60 to watch him do something that he hates and do it at less than 100 percent of his ability, just so he can get another paycheck.
So fans, I would like to pose a question to you. Since Rampage has made it clear that he doesn’t care, do you care enough to fork over your hard-earned cash to watch him “fight?”
Is there anything that gets the fans more upset than seeing a fighter not competing to the best of their abilities?Go watch UFC 90, 97, and 112 for some examples.Or even worse, is there anything worse in combat sports when you know one of the fighters …
Is there anything that gets the fans more upset than seeing a fighter not competing to the best of their abilities?
Go watch UFC 90, 97, and 112 for some examples.
Or even worse, is there anything worse in combat sports when you know one of the fighters is there just to collect a paycheck?
For an example, watch UFC 130 next Saturday night.
In recent interviews, Rampage has made it well known that he is not thrilled about fight Matt Hamill. He has also made it clear that he is just about done with MMA period.
He would rather be hamming it up on the big screen. To Rampage, this whole MMA thing that made him famous is just something to tide him over until Hollywood comes knocking at his door again.
Apparently, headlining yet another UFC event is not enough to get Rampage excited about fighting again. Jackson recently told Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour “…not a whole lot gets me excited.”
News flash Quinton—when your name is tied to the headline of a pay-per-view, it is your job to get excited. Or at very least, it is your job make the fans believe you are excited.
After all, if you can’t get fans excited about your fight, who is going to want to watch it?
Odds are if you are reading this, you have a job. It may not be the most glorious job, but it pays the bills. If you hate your job, you may not give it your all, you may complain to your friends about it, but would you ever tell your boss “this job sucks?”
Of course you wouldn’t. Because if you did that, you wouldn’t have a job.
What Rampage is doing is telling all the paying fans out there “this job sucks,” yet still expects us to pay $50 or $60 to watch him do something that he hates and do it at less than 100 percent of his ability, just so he can get another paycheck.
So fans, I would like to pose a question to you. Since Rampage has made it clear that he doesn’t care, do you care enough to fork over your hard-earned cash to watch him “fight?”
UFC 130 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada will take place next Saturday, May 28, 2011.Originally scheduled to headline this event was the third matchup between the UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, and the No. 1 contender, Gray…
UFC 130 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada will take place next Saturday, May 28, 2011.
Originally scheduled to headline this event was the third matchup between the UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, and the No. 1 contender, Gray Maynard.
Unfortunate injuries to both fighters have scrapped this main event battle.
To fill the void of this epic trilogy between Edgar and Maynard will be a light heavyweight clash between Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Matt “The Hammer” Hamill.
Additionally, the co-main event features the former UFC heavyweight champion, Frank Mir, slotted to face Roy “Big Country” Nelson.
In middleweight action, the technically precise, hard-hitting ex-Marine Brian Stann will square off against former Sengoku middleweight champion Jorge Santiago.
Additional fights include a wonderful welterweight bout between Thiago Alves and Rick Story, as well as an action-packed bantamweight battle between Miguel Torres and Demetrious Johnson.
Please follow along as I provide analysis and in-depth previews and predictions of all the night’s fights.
UFC 130 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada will take place next Saturday, May 28, 2011.Originally scheduled to headline this event was the third matchup between the UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, and the No. 1 contender, Gray…
UFC 130 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada will take place next Saturday, May 28, 2011.
Originally scheduled to headline this event was the third matchup between the UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, and the No. 1 contender, Gray Maynard.
Unfortunate injuries to both fighters have scrapped this main event battle.
To fill the void of this epic trilogy between Edgar and Maynard will be a light heavyweight clash between Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Matt “The Hammer” Hamill.
Additionally, the co-main event features the former UFC heavyweight champion, Frank Mir, slotted to face Roy “Big Country” Nelson.
In middleweight action, the technically precise, hard-hitting ex-Marine Brian Stann will square off against former Sengoku middleweight champion Jorge Santiago.
Additional fights include a wonderful welterweight bout between Thiago Alves and Rick Story, as well as an action-packed bantamweight battle between Miguel Torres and Demetrious Johnson.
Please follow along as I provide analysis and in-depth previews and predictions of all the night’s fights.
Filed under: UFC, News If you take Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at his word, time is running short on his mixed martial arts career. The former UFC light-heavyweight champion reasserted on Thursday that he plans to call it quits at age 35, and he turns 33…
If you take Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at his word, time is running short on his mixed martial arts career. The former UFC light-heavyweight champion reasserted on Thursday that he plans to call it quits at age 35, and he turns 33 next month. Until then, he still has a few big fights ahead of him. Up until recently, however, he didn’t view UFC 130‘s main event bout with Matt Hamill as one of them.
In recent interviews, Jackson made headlines when he said he wasn’t particularly excited to face Hamill. On a Thursday teleconference, Jackson said that wasn’t unusual for him, as he no longer gets excited about facing anyone. But, he also added that changed a bit when Hamill commented recently that he knew he was “going to break his will.”
“My main motivation is to win,” he said, “but I think Matt made a mistake when he said he’s going to break my will and I’m going to overlook him. That lit a fire up under my ass. That made me train a little bit harder so I can break his will, and make sure I can outclass him.”
Jackson admitted that was the just the pick-me-up he needed to spark him.
“Honestly in the beginning, fighting him, I wasn’t 100 percent motivated as I would be vs. someone who had beaten me before or something like that,” he said. “But when he said that, that motivated me as much as I’ve been motivated in a fight.”
Jackson (31-8) is coming off a split decision win over Lyoto Machida, and might find himself in the title picture with a win over Hamill, a possibility he said is “the last thing on my mind.”
For his part, Hamill (10-2) said his comments stemmed from his belief that Jackson would overlook him. Over the last several years, almost all of Jackson’s fights have come against top five fighters, a level he has yet to reach. Jackson said that in preparation, he’s worked overtime on his wrestling, acknowledging that he “really respects” his opponent’s prowess in that part of the game while shooting back, “I feel I’m a pretty decent MMA wrestler, too.”
Hamill and his manager Duff Holmes alluded to their potential game plan, with Holmes saying “He’s going to be out-wrestled and he’s going to be taken down. There’s just no way around it.” Later, when asked if he felt Jackson has concentrated on his boxing to the detriment of the rest of his MMA skills, Hamill said, “Yeah, that’s why I want him.”
A win over Jackson would be the biggest of Hamill’s career, and thrust him into the title picture with a six-fight win streak. With so much at stake it might be easy to look ahead, but Hamill is trying to focus on the job at hand.
“I’ve always tried to take it one fight at a time,” he said. “I feel like I’m in the semifinals of a wrestling bracket. And I’ve never lost in the semifinals of a wrestling bracket.”
With his time running short, Jackson too admitted there is some importance in going after the belt again, but also wanted to continue to leave fans with memories from a crowd-pleasing style, even if they didn’t necessarily understand why he might not be around much longer.
“If anybody’s smart, they want to have an exit plan from MMA or any full contact sport,” he said. “You can tell which fans are smart and which ones are kind of ignorant if they just think you’re going to fight and just be done. What happens after you get done fighting? Just run away? I don’t understand what they think. That stuff doesn’t bother me at all. It’s my life, it’s my family I take care of. I have my goals and my plans. Things I want to do to make me happy. That’s all I care about is me and my family. The fans? I’m just here to entertain them, but do I care about them the same way as I care about my family? Hell no.”
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