In the follow-up to his "retirement" blog post, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson addressed Thursday his feelings of disrespect from UFC president Dana White and rival Rashad Evans. "I feel like this whole situation could have been avoided if UFC would have respected me more and rescheduled the fight about a month or more in my hometown," Jackson wrote in a post titled "Who's the baby?" undoubtedly in response to White saying he was "acting like a baby."
"... Instead, Dana went on the Internet and started talking bad about my decision," Jackson continued. "All we had to do was come to a certain type of agreement or understanding, which later came after a lot of trash talk from Dana."
Respect, or the lack there of, was the major theme of Jackson's latest statement, which was also the same reason Randy Couture tendered his resignation from the UFC in 2007. However unlike Couture, Jackson is satisfied with his financial compensation, just not White's insults towards his decision to accept an important acting gig.
"Everything is not about how much money you make," he wrote. "You can be the richest man in the world but if nobody respects you then it don't mean s---."
Shifting focus to his The Ultimate Fighter 10 opposing coach, Jackson responded to Evans' comment to Yahoo! Sports Wednesday that "I would have loved to punch him in the face for free."
"I am the wrong fighter that should fight pissed off professionally," Jackson wrote. "I don't even consider it fair. So Rashad says he will fight me for free. I will gladly meet him at any gym and fight him just to shut his mouth up and I mean that for real!"
Read Jackson's entire blog post here (registration required).
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-24-2009 @ 9:24PM
neozoo said...
ya know page,
i think the ufc was being more than respectful to you when they stood by your side, when you almost killed someone during your driving rampage.
so what, dana has a big mouth.....so do you.
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9-25-2009 @ 2:08AM
Larry McGlade said...
Rampage is the LAST person to be calling others babies or even muttering the word "baby"! He didn't ALMOST kill someone, he DID kill someone. He swiped a woman who days later lost her baby.
No one can say for sure one way or the other, but Rampage has more things to worry about than people calling him baby, BABY KILLER is more like it. Dana White got what he deserved too, you back up a scumbag, what do you think that same scumbag will do to you?
Be loyal to the guys who are loyal to you! Like Hendo! Instead he screws him over any chance he gets.
I WAS a fan of Rampage's when he fought in Pride, ever since he got the phony fan base here and got popular it went to his head. He made excuses for ALL his loses in Pride that he was paid to lose, but didn't take the money, yet STILL lost! LOL. REALLY?!! Is that your argument?
How bout that win against Ninja, didn't complain about that one, huh?
Then he continued his crybaby ways complaining about Forrest beating him. What he did after D.W. and company TRIED to sweep under the rug, that's karma for you!
Screw calling him a baby, Rampage is THE BABY KILLAH!
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9-25-2009 @ 12:07PM
boxer129 said...
Rapage puss'd out. Simple as that. He found the easy way out. Evans got in his head and created uncertainty. You can see it everytime they come into contact on TUF. Now he's saying he will fight Evans for free only because he knows it will never happen. Why fight for free when you could have fought for money? Idiot.
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9-26-2009 @ 1:49AM
jdedrick said...
QUINTON "SHOULD BE IN jAIL" JACKSON. HOW THIS MORON DID NOT GET CHARGED FOR KILLING THAT WOMANS BABY IS UNREAL. SHUT THE HELL UP RAMPAGE BABY KILLERS DONT GET RESPECT BY MOST PEOPLE.
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