Dana White Is Through Playing Games With Rampage Jackson Apparently

by Kelvin Hunt on Nov 15, 2009 1:00 PM EST in News Comment 16 comments

"Something's about to happen there. You know me, we were good friends. When I'm your friend, I'm your best friend on the world. But we're not friends anymore, and when I'm your enemy, I'm a bad enemy to have."

It seems like Rampage has been filming this A-Team movie for ever, for ever ever, and then some. Anyways, could a lawsuit be on the horizon for Rampage Jackson and breach of his UFC contract? Pure conjecture on my part, but I seriously doubt he had a retirement clause or anything of that nature in his UFC contract. I mean he was/is under contract with the UFC, and you can't just walk away from those type of things. I mean just ask Randy Couture.

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Dana White has every reason to be upset. Rampage cares only about Rampage. If he wasn’t a fighter, no one would give two shits about him. The movie gig came about because he is a UFC fighter, not the other way around. He makes easy money by “coaching” his way through TUF and pull out of the fight vs Rashad when the UFC have done a lot to build it up. Dana and co. have also been there for him through his troubles when people have gotten kicked out for lesser things than driving under the influence of cocaine.

I was never a fan but I wanted to see him get pummeled by Rashad, Shogun and Machida.

Whatever. F him.

by cauliflower_ears on Nov 15, 2009 1:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

There is only one party not living up to their end of the deal...

and it’s not Dana.

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by _Felix_ on Nov 15, 2009 2:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

What a mess.

Bloody hell.

by 3PA on Nov 15, 2009 2:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

…could a lawsuit be on the horizon for Rampage Jackson and breach of his UFC contract?

Sounds good to me! Hit that boy where it hurts most: his pocketbook.

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by -Neil- on Nov 15, 2009 2:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

not sure what they could sue him for. he can retire and just not get paid or fight again. i’m sure they gave him permission to do the movie or else he wouldn’t be doing it ,unless he signed to do the movie before getting permission and the ufc hasn’t made this public. randy’s situation was different, he tried to resign under contract. if the ufc could sue rampage for stupidity, he’d be broke. :)

by bdw on Nov 15, 2009 4:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

They can sue him because he’s still has fights remaining on his contract…he can’t just walk away from that.

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by Kelvin Hunt on Nov 15, 2009 4:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

A little devil’s advocate here: None of us know for sure that Quniton failed to live up to anything that he promised. If Jackson’s contract is similar to other UFC fighters (and I have no way of knowing if it is), it specifies how he will be compensated in exchange for fighting, and it specifies that the next “x” number of fights can only be in the UFC. If Quinton retires from the sport of MMA, I’m not sure that he’s violated the contract at all. He’s simply retired from fighting. The UFC need pay him nothing and he need provide the UFC any more fights. Now, I don’t know what, if any, strings were attached to any signing bonuses. This is still a free country and they, obviously, can’t make him get in that cage and fight. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

by SlickRick00 on Nov 15, 2009 4:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yea

but I’m pretty sure the UFC would protect themselves better than that. I just don’t see how they could have a contract where a fighter could say….you know what…I’m retiring and quitting….and that would be it…

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by Kelvin Hunt on Nov 15, 2009 5:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m thinking that what they could possibly get would be signing bonus money. They can’t legally say that he must fight “x” number of fights before retiring because we all have the right to retire when we see fit, but they could say that if he did retire before the fulfillment, he’ll have to retire a percentage of his signing bonus (similar to Barry Sanders, I think?). That’s the only scenario I could possibly see.

by SlickRick00 on Nov 15, 2009 5:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

“he’ll have to retire a percentage of his signing bonus”

Sorry, meant “return”. lol

by SlickRick00 on Nov 15, 2009 5:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

True

But if there was a commitment or understanding that he was to fight Evans following TUF, then that could be it. Kinda hard to say if that’s baked into their contracts for when they do it.

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by -Neil- on Nov 15, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yea

true…either way…he gonna fight again…or lose alot of money….and we know how that’s gonna turn out.

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by Kelvin Hunt on Nov 15, 2009 5:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

just wait until the a-team movie bombs and all those hollywood executives are not

calling and rampage goes on the rampage again but this time there is nobody to clean up his mess. hollywood is known for throwing more people under the bus than anybody. rampage, a future mike tyson imo. peace.

by wolfmanshowlforever on Nov 15, 2009 5:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs