Quinton Jackson: I'm done fighting
by Matt Bishop on Sep 22, 2009 8:54 PM EDT
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PrintFormer UFC light-heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson wrote on his blog today at rampage-jackson.com that he is done with fighting.
Here is the post (registration required).
Jackson cites his new acting career as part of the reason and goes on to talk about his career in the UFC from his fight with Chuck Liddell forward. Here's a piece:
I'm not like Randy Couture. My body has been getting so many different injuries that I wont be able to fight until my forties & neither do I want to fight that long. So I feel like my second career could be in jeopardy.. so I'm done fighting. I've been getting negative reviews from the dumb ass fans that don't pay my bills or put my kids though college. So I'm hanging it up. I'm gonna miss all my loyal fans but hopefully they'll follow me to my new career & I will gain more loyal fans along the way. & all you hater fans out there can kiss my big black hairy ass! & anybody that don't like what I just said can come try to kick my ass!
I still feel the UFC is a great organization and I felt like I was very loyal to them but they didn't respect my loyalty but I wish the UFC the best. I did a lot of things for them. I wish no bad blood between us but I have kids & a family back in Memphis to provide for & thats all that matters to me!
[UPDATE by Matt Bishop at 9:38 p.m. ET 9/22/09]
Personally, I don't think this will stick. The fight with Rashad Evans is worth much more than any movie roles he'll be taking, so I think he's either holding the UFC up or this will last a little while and he'll be back in the fold. Dana White will come to terms with people who will make him money. He's not a dumb man.
I would be absolutely shocked if Rampage stayed retired for more than six months, especially if he sees or is told about "The Ultimate Fighter 10" gaining steam. And I find it hard to believe he is willing to commit to this when his first movie isn't even done filming yet. He could be a complete flop in the acting world for all we know and have to come crawling back to the UFC.
And I don't think White should grovel to Jackson here, either. While his stock will certainly rise because of "TUF 10," he has never been a huge drawing commodity, especially considering his fight with Keith Jardine in March was one of the lowest UFC buyrates in recent memory.
Losing Jackson would be tough because he is a headliner whether he draws or not. With the company running more shows each year and having a lack of headliners, this is tough. But with new fighters rising their own stock every month, Jackson soon will become just a memory if he sticks to this for a long period of time.
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Sounds like he’s not handled criticism well. I don’t think I would have made some of the moves that he did here at the end of his career but after some time goes by I’ll mostly remember the good aspects of his career. Dude was a great fighter when he was at his peak and a very entertaining character in the fight game, albeit sometimes an unusual one.
Can’t say I’m exactly heartbroken over this. I’ve never been a fan of the guy. IMO, I think the dude is a completely self centered person. I’ve thought that ever since 2000 when I seen him behave a certain way backstage at a KOTC event.
I know I’m not perfect and like to crack wise, but arrogance and being self centered is one thing I can’t stand in a person.
...some call me "el mexicutioner"...
Yeah, I’ve heard Quinton goes through these phases where he can be really obnoxious. The thing is, maybe with that in mind, plus the obvious issues he’s had with handling everything in his life (i.e. the arrest last year), maybe this is the best thing for him. Maybe he doesn’t need to be fighting anymore and just needs to concentrate on getting his stuff together as a man and father.
I'm a fan of dude
BUT, I can’t help but think that he has some idiots steer his career. I mean anyone with common sense knows that you don’t quit a job before you have another lined up….if this movie does double asswipes in at the box office…then whats he going to do….coach? lol
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by Kelvin Hunt on Sep 22, 2009 9:41 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
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i knew this from the begining that this was only in rampages best interest and this shows he was looking for a way out. he didn’t want no part of machida, and he didn’t want no part in training for what it takes to stay at the top level in the ufc. he doggd out pride after they parted ways, and now the ufc. he talks more shit and more trash about other fighters than any other, telling forrest he wasn’t a real man, and mocking him for running out after the silva fight9which forrest kinda deserved, but not from rampage. he did more for them my ass. what a douche. this makes me think juanito was right all along, he got rampage to his highest level, and then page tossed him aside.
stay tuned
I’ll have jackson’s whole post up in the morning….he says some interesting things.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Sep 22, 2009 11:44 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
done read it. don’t know if i buy into “my dad and me” stuff. sounds like he’s trying to turn everything around and saying, “it was all dana’s idea for this and that” b.s. i also find it hard to believe that even after their meeting, that rampage thought everything was cool. dana has a big mouth, i know that, you know that, and rampage has to know it. rampage actually thinking he has done more for the ufc than they for him is insane. this could be another one of his “breakdowns”. well see. the ufc will be just fine without rampage,but will rampage be fine without the ufc and it’s spotlight? only time will tell. he went on a tirade and “retired”. he will have to be the one to come crawling back, b/c we all know that dana holds grudges. this will hurt the ufc short term, but by the next ppv, they will have probably have broken last years ppv record with 3 more to go(including brocklesnar!) someone mentioned they could easily replace rampage with king mo, which is true. they would just have to build him up more. with all that has been said and done, rampage will probably back by tomorrow or by the end of the week, but he will not ever be the same fighter again. the fire is gone.
A movie carreer? Right.
A guy like Rampage has options for movies, but long term, he’s got nothing. Sure, he’s B.A. Barackus today, but just because some movies dudes promised him a big payday for the sequel (he’s not making a real good wage for this one, I hear) doesn’t mean that he’s either going to get the role, the money, or that there will BE a role. And who’s to say that he’ll even have anything after that? Will people that enamored with him after this junk role that they’ll want him in the future? I’m calling shenanigans on this one.
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I was just about to write what Matt hit on in his update….no way Rampage is done with MMA…no way….he’ll be fighting Rashad Evans…and I’d put money on it if I was a betting man.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Sep 22, 2009 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions
And people were giving Huerta shit for wanting to pursue a movie career when the guy honored his contract and was extremely professional.
Rampage ducked Machida, wasted a season of TUF, left Rashad hanging in limbo, screwed his hometown fans in Memphis over…amongst other things.
Not to mention, Zuffa have put up with a lot of his antics and gotten him out of trouble time and again.
A more self centered asshole I have come across, not.
by cauliflower_ears on Sep 22, 2009 10:16 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
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by Kelvin Hunt on Sep 22, 2009 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I read the whole thing
aaskhdhfkdshfahahahahahahaha – how you gonna be called Rampage and come across as a bleeding-heart emo about EVERY single issue,
He wasn’t ready for Liddell – the fans booed him – he wasn’t promoted as the undisputed champ – he didn’t get the instant rematch with Forrest (see his post-fight interview for the definition of hypocrite) – Jardine, Evans, Machida blah blah blah – the freaking A-team being connected with all these emotions for him…
That’s the most weeny ass shit I’ve ever read.
Bloody hell.
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