Rampage says he's done fighting. . .

[SPX]

Can't really copy and paste this one, but it contains a full blog entry and is well worth the read:

http://mmajunkie.com/news/16277/quinton ... ghting.mma (http://mmajunkie.com/news/16277/quinton-rampage-jackson-im-done-fighting.mma)

Kind of puts a whole new spin on this season of TUF.

[Luke]

Sounds like he is looking to get his way or more money.

Theres no way this guy wont fight again .He's a nutcase but he's not that stupid

I think he's just mad at Dana,he'll fight again

[zY|]

^^Agreed on all counts. He's not done by any means. He's just posturing.

[Mr. IWS]

^^Agreed on all counts. He's not done by any means. He's just posturing.


+3

[Mr. IWS]

In the mean time, I would like to see Rashad fight Thiago Silva.

[SPX]

Sounds like he is looking to get his way or more money.

Theres no way this guy wont fight again .He's a nutcase but he's not that stupid

I think he's just mad at Dana,he'll fight again

Well the thing is, it has seemed to me as of late that he hasn't really wanted to fight anyway. I've been thinking for a little while now that he's probably going to leave either after the Rashad fight or soon after that. He just doesn't seem to have that fighting spirit anymore and has basically admitted he just does it for the money.

I assume he'll probably fight again if he ends up needing the cash, but if a handful of high-paying acting offers actually come in, I have no problem believing that he would be more than happy to leave MMA behind.

His blog entry actually sounded pretty genuine to me.

[Mr. IWS]

Dana's response



http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/rampage-post-says-fighter-done-with-ufc-white-reacts-19886

An open letter posted Tuesday at Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s official Web site (registration required) under the fighter’s name states that the former light heavyweight champion “is done fighting” and is “hanging it up” due to conflicts with the UFC.

A post on what is believed to be Jackson’s official Twitter account directed subscribers to Jackson’s site Tuesday as well.

Sherdog.com has not yet verified whether Jackson authored the Web site post, as neither Jackson nor his representatives could be reached for comment. UFC officials have not responded to calls and e-mails, but UFC President Dana White did address the letter Tuesday in a radio interview with Carmichael Dave on Sports 1140 on KHTK AM. White told Dave he’d been given no prior warning of Jackson’s alleged split with the promotion.

Earlier this month Jackson bowed out of a match against Rashad Evans at UFC 107 on Dec. 12 in Memphis, Tenn., Jackson’s hometown, to take a lead role in the major motion picture “The A-Team,” currently filming in Vancouver. The Dec. 12 bout would have followed Jackson’s and Evans’ appearances as rival coaches on “The Ultimate Fighter 10,” which airs for the next 11 weeks on SpikeTV and was meant to heavily promote the pay-per-view bout.

In August, White criticized Jackson’s intentions to choose the movie role over fighting.

"He wants to do this thing, and he's like, 'Listen, man, this is really important to me. … There's some sentimental value here for me, me and my dad grew up watching ‘The A-Team’ together and we loved it,’” White told the media at UFC 102 in Portland, Ore. “I said, 'Guess what Rashad Evans is thinking about right now? He's thinking about beating your f---ing ass. He's not sitting around thinking about how him and his mom used to watch the f---ing 'Love Boat' together and (how) he wants to get the role of ‘Isaac the Bartender.’”

When Jackson’s withdrawal became official, White told numerous media outlets that he wasn’t speaking with the fighter, as Jackson had “f---ed me.”

Last Saturday following UFC 103 in Dallas, White said he’d “patched things up” enough with the fighter to begin plans for Jackson’s return following filming, but he was distressed that Jackson would not commit to re-scheduling the Evans bout in February.

In the post on Jackson’s site, the author lists a variety of grievances with the fight promotion. They include Jackson’s purported feelings that he was unfairly coerced into fights with Chuck Liddell, Dan Henderson and Keith Jardine between 2007-2009, as well as allegations that the promotion did not fulfill promises to promote Jackson as the “undisputed champ” after his September 2007 victory against Henderson or allow Jackson to fight 205-pound champion Lyoto Machida as agreed to following his stint on “TUF 10.”

In addition, the post states that White instructed Jackson what to say to the media in reference to the delayed Machida bout.

During the Sports 1140 interview, White said Jackson had shown no interest in fighting for the title.

“Rampage Jackson told me he wasn’t interested in the belt. The belt caused him too many problems,” said White. “It’s not like he was going after Machida because he wanted the belt. He didn’t want the belt. … He just wants to fight and make money and feed his family is exactly what he told me.”

The post also says White “mocked” Jackson for his decision to take “The A-Team” role by revealing private conversations Jackson had with White regarding the fighter’s delicate relationship with his father. The author also claims that White not only inaccurately referred to Jackson’s potential movie salary publicly but also jeopardized the fighter’s future in acting by revealing the private information.

“So I feel like my second career could be in jeopardy … so I'm done fighting,” the entry says.

White called the allegation “crazy.”

“Because I got so pissed off about him pulling out of the fight with Rashad -- I’m speaking my mind (and) he thinks I’m trying to ruin his movie career. It’s crazy,” White told Carmichael Dave on Tuesday.

White said that prior to the post, he’d spoken with Rampage as a “friend, to talk him out of making a bad decision.” White also said Jackson was “acting like a baby now, but he’s a grown man.”

“I have nothing bad to say about Rampage. He’s a grown man,” White told Carmichael Dave. “(If) this guy decides he wants to walk away from guaranteed good money right now, money that he’ll never have the opportunity to make for the rest of his life, because he wants to go off and make movies, he’s a grown man. He can do whatever he wants to do.”

[Mr. IWS]

This can be a soap opera.



http://www.fiveknuckles.com/mma-news/Qu ... -baby.html (http://www.fiveknuckles.com/mma-news/Quinton-Jackson-responds-to-Dana-White-calling-him-a-baby.html)

It appears the feud between Quinton Jackson and UFC President, Dana White, is heating up as Jackson just responded to White's statements in which the UFC head honcho called him a "baby" during a radio interview yesterday.

Jackson's decision to retire from mixed martial arts has left many fans and UFC officials scratching their heads. He exits with an outstanding 30-7 MMA record and leaves behind a two-fight win streak.

Jackson responds on his personal blog just moments ago:

Who's the baby?

"Make no mistake the UFC treated me a lot better than Pride. If you get hurt in training in a UFC fight then will send you to the best doctors. If you get hurt in a Pride fight most of the time they will tell me "oh you better take care of that!" The UFC will always let you know in a timely matter who you will be fighting & give you enough time to train but with Pride if I knew 4 weeks ahead I would be happy cause most times they just give you a 2 weeks notice. Pride will rip you off on your merchandising but the UFC would find someway to hook you up on merchandising deals. Pride will make fights easier for certain fighters inside the ring (like standing up fights early). With the UFC whatever happens happens. The only thing I see the UFC needs to fix in this area is to get better judges. Ones who know about MMA & not from the boxing world.

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 shit. 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 shit 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!" -Posted by Rampage Jackson on September 24, 2009 at 12:18pm

[SPX]

This is great:


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.


Now, I'm not saying whether or not I would have beaten Machida, but I wouldn't have went out like a bitch like the way he did.

I think Rampage really sounds pretty genuine in what he's saying and he really sounds like he's bearing his soul.