Tag: Rampage Jackson

Dana White exposed for being uncaring about injuries by Tyron Woodley: ‘You told me nobody wanted to watch me fight’

Dana WhiteUFC president Dana White has been revealed to be quite unsympathetic regarding fighters coming into bouts battling injuries and those injuries leading to a poor performance in the octagon. Two former UFC champions in Rampage Jackson and Tyron Woodley testified on Jackson’s podcast that the boss man did not take too kindly to such an […]

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UFC president Dana White has been revealed to be quite unsympathetic regarding fighters coming into bouts battling injuries and those injuries leading to a poor performance in the octagon.

Two former UFC champions in Rampage Jackson and Tyron Woodley testified on Jackson’s podcast that the boss man did not take too kindly to such an occurrence. Jackson told a story about his fight with Ryan Bader in Japan, and how he went into that fight with a partially torn meniscus.

He still wanted to fight, loss to Bader, and then was blasted by the UFC president who never mentioned anything about the injury Rampage Jackson was suffering from.

Rampage Jackson and Tyron Woodley detail Dana White’s stance on performance-impacting injuries

“I think I fell out with Dana when I lost to Ryan Bader in Japan,” Jackson began, speaking to Woodley on the JAXXON Podcast (H/T Fan Nation). “I got injured before that fight and I called Dana right away. I said ‘Man, I got a partial tear in my meniscus.’ He said ‘What are you gonna do?’ I said ‘S*** man, it’s Japan. I still wanna fight.’…So I went there and I fought, and I lost by decision. First thing Dana [does] in the press conference is like ‘I don’t know what’s going on with Rampage. I don’t think he has it, I don’t think he wants it anymore.’”

This understandably angered Jackson, and he soon departed for Bellator. Tyron Woodley also had a very similar story. He mentioned how he told Dana White about an injury as well, and the UFC president feigned ignorance on it after it led to a poor performance.

“The same way you feel right now, I had the – you’re still burning a little bit, right?” Woodley asked Jackson. “[Dana knew] good and well, I f***ing told [him]. But now you’re gonna sit here and – You know good and well I told you I tore my labrum against Demian Maia, and you just told everybody that nobody wants to watch me fight.”

What do you think about Jackson’s and Woodley’s stories about Dana White?

Rampage Jackson reveals Nate Diaz suffered injury ahead of Jake Paul fight: ‘He had a pulled muscle in there’

Rampage Jackson Nate DiazRampage Jackson has recently shared a story about the night of the Nate Diaz and Jake Paul fight and claims Diaz went into the boxing match with an injury. The fight occurred back in August, and Paul handed Diaz a pretty convincing beat down on his way to a decision victory over the former UFC […]

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Rampage Jackson has recently shared a story about the night of the Nate Diaz and Jake Paul fight and claims Diaz went into the boxing match with an injury.

The fight occurred back in August, and Paul handed Diaz a pretty convincing beat down on his way to a decision victory over the former UFC star. Many thought Diaz didn’t quite look like himself that night, and according to Rampage Jackson: he just truly wasn’t.

“It was a very entertaining fight, in my opinion,” Jackson said on his podcast. He was in attendance that night, and after the fight, he went backstage and checked on Nate Diaz personally. “I watched it as entertainment. You know I’m going for Nate, Nate’s always been one of the realest O.Gs. I’m going for him, but he just didn’t look like himself.”

Rampage Jackson details Nate Diaz disclosing the injury to him in the locker room after the fight

“And then I went into the locker room later,” Rampage Jackson continued. “I don’t know if he said this to the press, but he was injured. He had a pulled muscle in there. And I can tell, I said ‘Man, what’s wrong with you,’ because one of his pecs was smaller than the other. ‘Oh man, I got a f—ed up pinched nerve in my back.’”

This injury essentially forced the Stockton native to change tactics leading into the fight and completely altered the way he was going to approach Jake Paul in the boxing ring.

Jackson went on to say that he was very impressed that Diaz didn’t lean on his injury as a crutch to excuse his loss to Paul. “I respect that because I got an excuse with all my losses,” Jackson chuckled. “You lose respect when you talk excuses, but yeah I got excuses for all my losses.”

As far as Rampage Jackson goes, he’s preparing for a fight against former TUF 10 contestant Darrill Schoonover. The two got into a beef of sorts when Jackson began referring to the quite heavyset man as “Titties”, and now the duo is looking to settle the score.

What do you think about Jackson’s story about his encounter with Nate Diaz after the Jake Paul fight?

‘Rampage’ Jackson reveals what UFC CEO Dana White said that soured their relationship

RampageDon’t expect Octagon icon Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson to bury the hatchet with UFC CEO Dana White anytime soon. It’s been nearly a decade since the former light heavyweight champion has competed under the UFC banner and ‘Rampage’ is still admittedly seething over what he perceived to be a showing of disrespect from White following one […]

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Don’t expect Octagon icon Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson to bury the hatchet with UFC CEO Dana White anytime soon.

It’s been nearly a decade since the former light heavyweight champion has competed under the UFC banner and ‘Rampage’ is still admittedly seething over what he perceived to be a showing of disrespect from White following one of his final appearances with the promotion.

“I think I fell out with Dana when I lost to Ryan Bader in Japan,” Jackson said on his JAXXON podcast. “I got injured before that fight, and I called Dana right away. I said, ‘Man, I tore, I got a partial tear in my meniscus.’ He said ‘What are you gonna do?’ I said ‘Sh*t, man, it’s Japan. I still want to fight. F*ck it, I’m still going to fight. I want to fight.’ It was Japan. I love fighting in Japan.

“So when I went there and I fought, and I lost by decision, the first thing Dana did in the press conference is, like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on with Rampage. I don’t think he has it. I don’t think he wants it anymore.’

“I was like ‘Man!’ … After all that sh*t Dana did to me when he did that sh*t, that’s when I got kind of pissed at him. I lost my love for fighting right there” (h/t MMA Fighting).

‘Rampage’ Believes Dana White Took His Work Ethic for Granted

After making a name for himself in PRIDE, ‘Rampage’ moved over to the UFC in 2007 and promptly claimed the 205-pound title via a first-round knockout of Chuck Liddell. Over the next six years, Jackson would compete against some of the biggest names in the division’s history, including Lyoto Machida, Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Wanderlei Silva, Glover Teixeira, and Jon Jones.

Following three straight losses, ‘Rampage’ exited the promotion and headed to Bellator where he competed for another six years.

Throughout his illustrious career, Jackson was known to compete on a regular basis and is said to have never once backed out of a fight until Dana White threw him under the bus that night.

“I never pulled out of a fight,” Jackson continued. “I don’t pull out. I got four, five, six kids. I don’t pull out. I had never pulled out of a fight in my career. I never pulled out. And then after that when I got injured I started pulling out of fights.

“I said, ‘F*ck this sh*t,’ because you don’t get no respect for fighting injured, and I let Dana know right away that I was injured. For him to say that, it kind of made me look at him sideways.”

Ex-UFC champion Rampage Jackson plots surprising MMA comeback against Darrill Schoonover: ‘I got a hit list’

Rampage Jackson titties Darril SchoonoverRampage Jackson, the beloved MMA legend, is considering making a comeback against some old foes. Jackson has a hit list, and he’s eager to cross off the names on it while he’s in shape and before he’s too old. Last active in 2019, Jackson’s last fight was against Fedor Emelianenko at Bellator 237. Things didn’t […]

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Rampage Jackson, the beloved MMA legend, is considering making a comeback against some old foes. Jackson has a hit list, and he’s eager to cross off the names on it while he’s in shape and before he’s too old.

Last active in 2019, Jackson’s last fight was against Fedor Emelianenko at Bellator 237. Things didn’t go his way and Emelianenko finished him with a nasty right cross. At the time, fans could see that Jackson had put on a lot of weight. He was a far cry from the shredded monster that would pick grown men up over his head and slam them.

However, Rampage Jackson has spent a lot of time getting back into shape and feels he is ready now to make one last foray into the world of Combat Sports.

Rampage Jackson speaks on his plans for a comeback and has a list of names he’d like to cross off

In an interview with Middle Easy, Rampage Jackson delved into the details of the comeback he is plotting on. He spoke about life, his career, and the funny experience he had with Darrill Schoonover on TUF 10. See, Jackson had dubbed Schoonover as ‘Titties’, and while it was funny, it actually segued into what is now an ancient beef.

“I’m in talks now with ‘titties’, I mean, Darrill Schoonover,” Rampage Jackson told Middle Easy. “I’m in talks right now with his brother. His brother hit me up and I’m seeing if Darrill’s interested in fighting. If Darrill beat me in this fight, I would never call him titties again. Never ever would I even mutter the word titties and him in the same sentence again. In the same sentence, I would never do that again.”

“We was on the show, ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ and I can’t remember exactly how the beef started,” Jackson said, speaking about his issues with Schoonover (H/T Middle Easy). “Him and I, we was pretty cool and truth be told at first, he didn’t mind the nickname ‘Titties’. But I think it got outta hand, it just got outta control.”

“People call me a bully and, and I don’t believe making fun of someone that made fun of you is bullying. I just feel like I won the banter and so now I’m a bully. The world’s gotten so soft. Things got really bad, people started calling him titties and stuff and now he hate me. But, I was going to fight him on the show cause he got in my face and I don’t forget that.”

Rampage Jackson reveals some more names on his ‘hit list’

Rampage Jackson would also speak on his hit list, and how he’d like to cross all of the names off of it and settle some old feuds and rivalries from his career.

“I wanted to start this whole thing where I do all my grudge matches before I got too old. Just fight everybody I don’t like, if I don’t like you, come and fight man. And now that UFL is a thing and I would like to promote UFL and get it more popular cause I believe in the company. So I wanna do my grudge matches in the UFL. Titties is first on my hitlist: Darrill Schoonover.”

“We got a couple other people on my hit list. I still owe Wanderlei [Silva] one more fight. Cause we’re 2-2. Too bad Shogun [Rua] just retired, I wanna rematch with him cause he beat me one time when I was injured and I never got that one back. There’s a couple people on my hit list.”

Do you think Rampage Jackson will actually make an MMA comeback?

‘Rampage’ Jackson blames Dana White for Wanderlei Silva KO at UFC 92; ‘I might lose my foot in his a**’

RampageLong before making his UFC debut Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson made a name for himself in Japan’s premiere fight promotion, PRIDE FC. During his time in The Land of the Rising Sun, Jackson walked through some of the biggest names in combat sports history, including Kazushi Sakuraba, Kevin Randleman, and Chuck Liddell. However, one man always […]

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Long before making his UFC debut Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson made a name for himself in Japan’s premiere fight promotion, PRIDE FC.

During his time in The Land of the Rising Sun, Jackson walked through some of the biggest names in combat sports history, including Kazushi Sakuraba, Kevin Randleman, and Chuck Liddell. However, one man always seemed to have his number. ‘The Axe Murderer’ Wanderlei Silva. Between 2003 and 2004, ‘Rampage’ suffered back-to-back knockouts against Silva before the pair faced off for the first and only time inside the Octagon.

On that night, ‘Rampage’ finally broke through, scoring a first-round knockout against Silva in spectacular fashion. Looking back on the fight during his appearance on JAXXON Podcasts’ Fade on Site, the former light heavyweight world champion revealed that Dana White’s tardiness to a meeting led to a chance encounter with ‘The Axe Murderer’ that ultimately sealed Silva’s fate at UFC 92.

“One of the main reasons why Wanderlei got his a** beat so bad that time in the UFC, is after the weigh-ins, Dana wanted us to go and like, have this fighter meeting,” Jackson explained. “And we starving and everything, and we gotta wait on f*cking Dana White… We ready to go eat, like some people don’t eat. You know how it is when you cut weight… I just wanna hydrate and eat, right? And we gotta wait on Dana White.

“Wanderlei comes up to me while I’m f*cking p*ssed off, ‘I know you remember my knee…I know you remember hanging on the ropes.’ And I was like ‘Oh, this motherf*cker. I might lose my foot in his a** tomorrow.’”

Rampage’ and Wanderlei Silva would meet one more time in their respective careers under the Bellator MMA banner in 2018. Jackson would walk away with the win once again, this time via a second-round TKO.

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Video – ‘Rampage’ Jackson’s son, Raja Jackson, earns first round KO in final amateur bout, set to turn pro

Raja JacksonRaja Jackson, the son of former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson scored his third finish on Saturday night. Competing under the United Fight League banner, Raja Jackson squared off with Hastings McMillan in what he had hoped to be his final amateur contest before turning pro. Shortly after putting away his opponent in […]

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Raja Jackson, the son of former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson scored his third finish on Saturday night.

Competing under the United Fight League banner, Raja Jackson squared off with Hastings McMillan in what he had hoped to be his final amateur contest before turning pro. Shortly after putting away his opponent in the opening round, Jackson announced that his next fight would indeed be his first as a professional mixed martial artist.

His final amateur contest was aired live on Rumble, but MMA journalist Alex Behunin was kind enough to share a clip of Jackson’s impressive finish on Twitter, which you can see below:

Raja Jackson, 23, also reportedly received the blessing of his father to turn pro after the impressive finish.

Raja Jackson’s Nickname Pays Tribute to His Father’s Legacy

Jackson’s father, of course, is one of the most well-known and beloved mixed martial artists in the history of the sport. Having fought in PRIDE, and Bellator, ‘Rampage’ Jackson reached the pinnacle of his combat sports career inside the Octagon, knocking out Chuck Liddell for the UFC light heavyweight title in May 2007. He also won Bellator’s season 10 heavyweight tournament in 2014, defeating King Mo in the final.

‘Rampage’ has shared the cage with some of the biggest names in MMA history, including Kazushi Sakuraba, Wanderlei Silva, ‘Shogun’ Rua, Dan Henderson, Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida, Jon Jones, Ryan Bader, Chael Sonnen, and Fedor Emelianenko.

Raja Jackson has adopted the nickname ‘da Clone’, undoubtedly a tribute to his father’s legacy and a testament to his own skills.