Rampage says he`s done with the UFC and MMA.

[Super Mario]

I may have been a little harsh there, I apologize.

 

[JzWand]

Jesus Christ can nobody say anything about Quentin Jackson without you getting your ******* in a bunch? I didn`t even say anything bad. I just made an observation that he didn`t come out like he normally does. I challenge anyone to go back and watch his entrance, pay attention to his demeanor, facial expressions, and tell me with a straight face that was the usual Rampage. Because it wasn`t. And did you read my entire post? Because I said I didn`t know that it WAS fear, and we seen the result of the fight. He brutally KO`d Wand. Even so, just because he knocked him out, that doesn`t necessarially mean he WASN`T timid coming into the fight. And who could blame him if he was a little after being worked over so hard in the clinch with knees in their previous two encounters. I wasn`t mouthing him, just making an observation.

Sam in your first post you called him a *****.
I get my ******* in a bunch the same way you do with the Cardinals and Prince Fielder. Sound familiar?

Now, the end result IMO triumphs anything else.
I could say the Yankees dont look themselves coming into a game, but if they spank the other team 10-0, whats the point of bringing up that after the fact?

Oh and BTW, regarding Pujols, before he starts mouthing off about the Brewers and their "disrespect to the game", son should really pull his pants up a bit and let the socks and pull ups show. You know, the way the uniforms are supposed to be worn!

The reason I call you on your shat is because your are always so biased towards and against someone/teams and ALWAYS fail to consider the other side. Basically you flat out refuse to look at things objectively.

In the end:

Rampage isnt fighting Rashad and Machida so he must be a *****!

Brock Lesnar had a point deducted on him and even though it is at the referees discretion and it had absolutely no bearing on the fight because Lesnar was a complete dummy when it came to subs, Mazzagati is the worst ref (which is not true BTW), and Mir got lucky!

Randy Couture is overated and I dont see what the big deal about him is even though I addmittedly didnt start following his career until later on and have no idea on the impact he had on the sport priot, to say, UFC 52.

Theres no need to apoplogize Sam.

But I am going to continue to call you out on stuff if I feel your wrong and without sounding stuck up, especially on a sport that I can probably forget more than you will ever know.

 

[Super Mario]

I am not impressed by your performance,

 

[peaceandlove]

In all seriousness, if he can make a nut load of money not getting kneed in the face for a living, good for him, he should do that.
BUT I will always believe he was ducking Machida by taking the TUF coaching gig. Who doesn`t want a title shot? Someone who knows he is going to lose to the champion. Will be interesting to see how he does as B.A.

according to Rampage, he was told he would get Machida and a title shot for coaching TUF and then he got backdoored into fighting Rashad. He also wanted a rematch with Griffin for the belt but was offered Silva instead. From Rampage's site:

"Instead they offered me the Vanderlei Silva fight which I gladly accepted even though I know it was a very risky fight for me to take because of all the drama that was happening to me at the time. I fought that fight with a jaw injury and then a couple weeks later Dana called me and asked me to fight Rashad. For the first time I said no, I didn't want to fight because it was such short notice & I wouldn't have had a long break between camp. Dana talked me into fighting Rashad anyway but Rashad refused the fight and so I had to fight Jardine as a favor to the UFC instead of getting my belt back (which wasn't even worth it to me financially).
Then I reinjured my jaw in the fight with Vanderlei & Jardine. Frank Mir gets hurt so they wanted to switch my fight from UFC 100 to the fight Frank couldn't make it to but I couldn't fight cause I needed jaw surgury. So they give Machida the fight against Rashad & they told me they want me to coach TUF season 10 against Rashad. That's why I wanted Rashad to win so bad but when Rashad got knocked out I told them I wanted to fight Machida for the belt but Dana told me if I coach TUF against Rashad that I could fight Machida afterwards cause this was a different type of ultimate fighter show they were doing. After I signed the contract Dana then changes his mind & says I have to fight Rashad & even told me what to say in the press & so my fans think I was scared to fight Machida. After all that I still never complained & I did it all."

 

[MojoDan]

I am not impressed by your performance,

Now thats where I draw the line...you leave my fav MMA'er outta this pal...

 

[Super Mario]

I am not impressed by your performance,

Now thats where I draw the line...you leave my fav MMA'er outta this pal...

 

[JzWand]

I am not impressed by your performance,

Sam, your supposed to also say this using your best french accent.

Oddly enough, I can never read a GSP interview without reading it with an accent.

 

[Super Mario]

I am not impressed by your performance,

Sam, your supposed to also say this using your best french accent.

Oddly enough, I can never read a GSP interview without reading it with an accent.

I typed it with my best French Canadian accent,

 

[TonyButlerStopSuckin]

Being serious now, can he legally just quit?? I assume he is under some sort of contract and I assume he could be sued for failing to honor it.

 

[Super Mario]

They COULD, but I doubt they will. He just won`t be able to fight anywhere else while he still has remaining fights left on his UFC contract. That is just a general assumption.

 

[peaceandlove]

as long as he "retires" and doesn't fight then he can just walk away. if he attempts to fight anywhere then they can stop him or sue his ass....much like what was gonna happen with Couture.

 

[HPC]

didnt see it posted yet so:

Quinton "Rampage" Jackson posted the following bomb shell on his official site:

"The UFC has done a lot for me but I think I have done more for them. The UFC bought WFA to get my contract & they saved my life, so I felt loyal to them. They pushed me into a fight with Chuck Liddel even when I clearly stated I wasn't ready to fight for the belt because the American fans didn't know me but I took the fight and didn't complain & after I won the American fans booed me for the first time which changed the way I saw them & it hurt me deeply.

Then before I can even get out of the cage they announced that I was fighting Dan Henderson without even asking me. After I beat Dan Henderson, I made history in becoming the first undisputed champion in MMA but was never even given the pride belt in the cage & I was never promoted as the undisputed champ. Later Anderson Silva was.

Then they had me coach TUF season 7 and fight Forrest and the fight was very controversial & normally when a fight is that close & controversial there is normally an instant replay. I can name a couple of instances. Instead they offered me the Vanderlei Silva fight which I gladly accepted even though I know it was a very risky fight for me to take because of all the drama that was happening to me at the time. I fought that fight with a jaw injury and then a couple weeks later Dana called me and asked me to fight Rashad. For the first time I said no, I didn't want to fight because it was such short notice & I wouldn't have had a long break between camp. Dana talked me into fighting Rashad anyway but Rashad refused the fight and so I had to fight Jardine as a favor to the UFC instead of getting my belt back (which wasn't even worth it to me financially).

Then I reinjured my jaw in the fight with Vanderlei & Jardine. Frank Mir gets hurt so they wanted to switch my fight from UFC 100 to the fight Frank couldn't make it to but I couldn't fight cause I needed jaw surgury. So they give Machida the fight against Rashad & they told me they want me to coach TUF season 10 against Rashad. That's why I wanted Rashad to win so bad but when Rashad got knocked out I told them I wanted to fight Machida for the belt but Dana told me if I coach TUF against Rashad that I could fight Machida afterwards cause this was a different type of ultimate fighter show they were doing. After I signed the contract Dana then changes his mind & says I have to fight Rashad & even told me what to say in the press & so my fans think I was scared to fight Machida. After all that I still never complained & I did it all.

Then this movie role came about that I have been trying to get for over a year & as soon as I found out I was close to getting it, I called Dana right away & asked to push the Memphis fight back just a month or so. I told him what this movie role meant to me. I told him that I used to bond with my father watching the tv show as a kid when my parents where still married & it represents the memories I had with my father when we lived together. My dad became an alcohalic & addicted to drugs & we grew apart. But after my dad got his life back together, I was so proud of my dad & I told him I would always take care of him in the future & make him proud of me. My dad & I are still very big fans of the show & I am basically doing this for the childhood memories I had spending time in front of the tv with my dad. Dana went on the internet & mocked me because of that & I still did nothing. Dana & I finally talked & we made up & then after that he went back on the internet & said some ******** & he was talking bad about the movie when information is not even supposed to be released & talking about payments which is not even true could really hurt my future acting career, which could very well last longer than my fighting career. 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!"

 

[peaceandlove]

more rants by Rampage. found the 2 nipple comments to be pretty funny.

From Rampage's blog:

"The reason why I'm talking about all this is that I feel like this whole situation could have been avoided if UFC would have respected me more & rescheduled the fight about a month or more in my hometown, which I know fights can be rescheduled because of the Matt Hughes & Matt Serra was postponed due to injuries. Instead, Dana went on the internet & started talking bad about my decision. All we had to do was come to a certain type of argreement or understanding, which later came after a lot of trash talk from Dana. My manager flew to Vegas & talked to them & tried to work things out like a MAN. & still I keep quite & I didn't talk trash back on the internet. The only reason why I'm even talking now is because I feel like I owe my fans an explanation because I am a MAN, a real MAN. Yeah I made good money with the UFC more than Pride, but I made both shows more money than they made me. I didn't care too much about Pride treating me like crap cause I was an American in a Japanese company. Now in my own country, I feel like I'm being disrepected. Everything is not about how much money you make. You could be the richest man in the world but if nobody repsects you then it don't mean ****. You can't buy respect. It should be earned. & thats what I'm all about.

Now Rashad wanna put his two cents in. Rashad remains to be a boy under me. He wins a few fights, and some of them I thought the judges fell asleep during the fight & woke up & saw him playing with his nipples & guessed he won. He knocked Chuck Liddel out when Chuck wasn't even the same man anymore. & now he thinks he's on my level. Yeah he talks about how he beat Forrest & I lost. But when I fought Forrest that was the worst Rampage I had ever seen. & I still know in my heart I won that fight. So now he's Mr. All Cocky & says I got a big mouth & talk a lot of smack. If my memory serves me correctly, he's the one that got into my face after the Jardine fight & started talking trash when he was the one that was originally supposed to fight me that night, but he told Dana on the phone he didn't want to fight. He wanted to keep his belt longer. Now, I'm not saying wether or not I would have beaten Machida, but I wouldn't have went out like a bitch like the way he did. So I'm the one that was looking forward to the Rashad fight the most. I have always been a fighter my whole life. As a kid my family treated me like **** which made me the person who I am today. This is why when I meet people I treat people the way I want to be treated (unless they approach me wrong or piss me off). I grew up thinking that I wasn't even important to my family which made me not even care about myself. That's why I can get knee-ed in the face 15 times & come back for more. That's why I can get my legs seriously hurt in a fight & still try to win. Thats why I can get my ribs broken in a fight & not tap out because my whole life I never thought I mattered to anybody or anybody cared about me. But now I have kids that love me & care about me & I'm not used to people caring about me but it feels good! I'm a very loyal person. Wolves are the most loyal animals on the planet. I was very loyal to the UFC, but now I owe all my loyalty to my kids... the ones who really care for me. The majority of my fights on the street I fought for free & they all were with emotion. I am a fighter, I will always be a fighter but my professional fights that were fought with emotion, I ended them all in devestating fashion. I am the wrong fighter that should fight pissed off professionally. I don't even consider it fair. So Rashad says he will fight me for free. I will gladly meet him at any gym & fight him just to shut his mouth up. & I mean that for real!

When I told Dana I did not want my belt back & that I just wanted to make money, it was around the time when they gave me Vanderlei & actually it was around the same time when my mind wasn't right (my mind was at TRUCK status) & that's the way I felt because I felt I had been robbed out of my belt. After the Jardine fight I did want my belt back because my family was so proud of me when I was champion & I want to make my family proud cause now I finally feel like my family cares about me & they accept me & this is what I've been wanting my whole childhood... for my family to like me. If I got to beat some ass for my family to like me, so be it. But now, I'm a grown man & I'll be damned if anybody disrespects me. I'm not having it, it's not happening!"


From MMABay.com:

“[Rashad] is probably happy as hell that I took this movie instead of whoopin’ his ass and he’s trying to play it up like he’s not. That’s all he is, he’s all talk. I did a show with the guy for six weeks, I know what he is. He’s all talk, it’s all show. If there wasn’t cameras or stuff around or nobody to grab his ass he wouldn’t do half the things that he did. Now he’s talking all hard, like he’s gonna hit me in the face? All he’s doing is really pissing me off more and more. I will go to Rashad’s house, knock on his door, drag his ugly ass out into the yard, let him play with his nipples first and knock him the f*** out. Like Rashad says, we’ll do the fight for free. I want him to put his money where his mouth is so I can knock his teeth out and give him some change, the boy needs a change, his mouth is too big but he ain’t nothing. The boy ain’t fought the people I’ve fought, he ain’t got the experience I’ve got. He’s barking up the wrong tree so he’s gonna get pissed on for real.”

 

[kdailey4315]

Usually when Dana is right or at least right in his mind we can't get him to shut up. Anyone wonder why we haven't really heard that much from him?

 

[peaceandlove]

one thing i can say about understanding why Dana's so pissed about it is when Rampage went on his road rage spree....it was Dana that flew out and bailed him out personally. You don't hear about owners or GM's in other sports bailing out their guys from jail so that's one stand up thing Dana has done for Rampage. If he truly wants to quit then he should just retire and move on. He just keeps harping on it though. i've read quite a few interviews of Dana talking about Rampage. here's one of the more recent ones:

“Because I got so pissed off at him pulling out of the fight with Rashad, I’m speaking my mind ?" he thinks I’m trying to ruin his movie career. It’s crazy. Listen, I have nothing bad to say about Rampage, he’s a grown man. If he decides he wants to walk away from guaranteed good money right now, he’s a grown man, he can do whatever he wants to do. What did I do to Rampage? I talked to him as a friend and tried to talk him out of making a bad decision. He doesn’t think it is, he thinks he’s gonna have a movie career but there’s so many fighters I’ve met over the years who thought they were gonna have movie careers. It’s not like he was going after Machida because he wanted the belt ?" he didn’t want the belt! He said the belt causes too many problems and he just wanted to fight and make money and feed his family ?" that’s exactly what he told me. All he’s been telling me since he got into the UFC is that he wants to fight in Memphis in front of his hometown. We make the fight in Memphis and then he pulls out of the fight because he wants to go make this movie because it has so much sentimental value to him. He’s a fighter, that’s what he does for a living. Now I’m going through all this crap where I got another fighter saying ‘You know what, this isn’t what I wanna do for the rest of my life, I wanna make movies, I wanna be a movie star, this is just a second career for me.’ Like I haven’t seen this one before. Rampage is a grown man. He’s acting like a baby right now but he’s a grown man. He wants to be in the movie business? Rampage, good luck to you man. I hope you make it big ?" and I’m not being sarcastic because Rampage Jackson is a guy that I do like. But Rampage Jackson is a guy that doesn’t always make the best decisions.”



this one was done the night before the Belfort/Franklin PPV:

“Mirko Cro Cop never shows up at press conferences. Is it OK? Guys (expletive) do ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ and then want to go play B.A. Baracus on the ‘The A-Team.’ This is my life dude, this is the (expletive) I got to deal with. You got to pick and choose your battles with these guys. I feel like he (expletive) me…. I’m not even talking to ‘Rampage.’ I’m really, really upset with ‘Rampage.’ … I can’t force any of these guys to fight. If you don’t want to fight, then you’re not gonna fight. You don’t want a guy going in fighting if his head isn’t in it anyway. If you’d rather be on the set of ‘The A-Team,’ then you definitely don’t belong in the Octagon. You have no idea how much collateral damage was done by him pulling out of this thing. It literally screwed up the rest of our year. We’ve got B.J. Penn fighting in Memphis, you know what I mean?”

 

[Super Mario]