Quote of the Day: The Ballad of Rampage Jackson
by Luke Thomas on Oct 28, 2009 10:10 AM EDT
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"I was watching the fight this weekend with the director of the A Team movie, the movie crew & a couple of actors & I never been ashamed to be a part of MMA till now," reads a Monday blog post on Jackson’s Web site, www.rampage-jackson.com. "The UFC looked like assholes this weekend. The main event was boring. I anticipated that because let's be real.. Machida is a boring fighter. But Shogun getting robbed like that was pretty cut throat. Then you hear Joe Rogan say you "you have to beat the champ to be a champ." & that made me think the UFC are full of s---! Not to be whiny here but I still don't feel like I've been beat in the UFC.. but I'm not champ anymore. If the UFC gives Shogun an immediate rematch because of the controversial loss then that would validate everything I have said about the UFC in my recent posts & why I'm pissed at the UFC. But yet he deserves one & so have I deserved one against Forrest.
"The reason why I was ashamed of the UFC is because some people around me were saying that the UFC is becoming corrupt like boxing & asked me is that stuff real? Most of the people from the A Team movie were just watching it because I was watching it & they don't know much about MMA & were starting to get into it but last night they didn't have anything good to say about my sport. So I was so ashamed."
-- Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, placing quite a great deal of value in the "people from the A Team movie" regarding MMA and whining while trying "not to be whiny here".
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He's got a point......
His fight with Forrest should’ve gotten him an immediate rematch if Shogun is if you are going to be fair. I would be pissed if I were him.
by joseph. on Oct 28, 2009 9:42 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
oops......
I forgot about him playing the game Twisted Metal with his car and L.A.
by joseph. on Oct 28, 2009 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not to mention the right guy won in his fight with Forrest.
Like Shogun, Forrest dominated his opponent with leg kicks. Unlike Shogun, Forrest got a well deserved win. There is no need for an immediate rematch when the right guy wins.
by Steve4192 on Oct 28, 2009 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
by DirtyML on Oct 28, 2009 9:43 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
There could be 8 million fanposts on the issue and I’d still put up this post.
by Luke Thomas on Oct 28, 2009 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
hahah….. even the main BE writers are not safe from sherdog like flaming!!!!
by yin hsiung on Oct 28, 2009 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
More like "Qoute of the (yester)Day"
super burn
But really Rampage…. Bitter much?
by Discman2 on Oct 28, 2009 9:48 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wasn't Rampage injured after the Forrest fight?
And facing possible jail time not much later…I wonder who helped get him out of that situation…?
by Razreshat on Oct 28, 2009 9:56 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
yes and yes, he didn’t get his immediate rematch due to his own actions not the UFC screwing him over.
by who me on Oct 28, 2009 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, there was no mention of him getting an immediate rematch at the post-fight press conference…so I doubt he was going to get one….so I do agree with him there
by Charles Walker on Oct 28, 2009 9:58 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
He was talking about his injury in the locker room as they cut the tape off of his hands...
would you talk about an immediate rematch if you were Dana?
Frankly, I think Dana made a big mistake talking about an immediate rematch in this instance, he should refrain from adrenaline fueled, immediate post fight comments on the future.
by Razreshat on Oct 28, 2009 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The most important part of this whole thing is that yet again we get a peek into the mind of Rampage Jackson, MMA superstar who doesn’t seem to fully understand how the sport works. He spends a bunch of time talking about how the UFC needs to get new judges..etc. I expect this from fans who don’t know the ins and outs of how the judges are assigned by the SAC’s not the promotions themselves.
And as for “is this real?” If anyone thinks that the UFC is faking fights and deciding that the best possible way to get people excited is a methodical fight between two Brazilians…well, I don’t want them running a pro wrestling promotion any time soon.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 28, 2009 10:05 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the mind of Rampage Jackson is a bizarre, scary place. He seems to see the same reality that the rest of us, but somewhere between his eyes and his mouth, reality transforms into something completely unrecognizable.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Oct 28, 2009 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He has a point about the fake reception though, he himself is not calling it fake, his cast members are (according to him). It’s easy to see someone who has never seen the sport before and think it may be fake, can’t fix ignorance. Me personally, I think we can do without those “fans”.
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by orcus on Oct 28, 2009 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t disagree with you on that point, but more widely the rest is just weird: the whole “I don’t feel I’ve been beaten in the UFC” thing; talking about judging as if Dana wasn’t equally critical of the judges; acting like he could have easily beaten Machida when he turned down that fight for a money fight against Rashad (which he is now also ducking out of); the “editing makes me look bad” angle when other people from the show are confirming that he was lazy and disinterested; and finally this great line -
Anybody involved in making the TUF show do me a big favor… Don’t look at me cause you’re fake. Don’t talk to me cause you’re fake. Don’t even think about me cause you’re fake. & if you do you might just get cussed the f—- out.
I mean, doesn’t it just seem like somehow he’s making massive logical and argumentative leaps and expecting everyone to notice that it doesn’t hold together?
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by AJB on Oct 28, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
In my mind, he just comes off like an egomaniac. More so than a lot of other fighters.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito Ortiz on Vitor Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Oct 28, 2009 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
well now he’s butt buddies with “murdoch” and “the faceman”…
by mmalogic on Oct 28, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well… yeah. I guess that’s kinda my point. Massive egomaniacs run everything through their own self-centered, self-positive filters, and it just shows are far he’s fallen into that egomaniac pit that he’s sounds so damn out of touch.
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by AJB on Oct 28, 2009 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think he is an egomaniac so much as he is pretty dumb. He can say they edited him to look like an ass, but he was the one calling that guy ‘titties’, and showing that he doesn’t know how to coach nor how to treat fellow fighters. Okay, he hates Rashad, however, Rashad has a TON of class (like all the Jackson boys seem to have) so if you are ‘anti-classy’ what are you…? You are the guy running around calling another man ‘titties’. That in itself wouldn’t be enough to lose a lot of fans. He clearly ducked Rashad. I do think he is afraid to some degree.
by mightyhokie on Oct 28, 2009 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rampage has a beautiful mind :P
Machida is a god
I now drink my urine daily
by orcus on Oct 28, 2009 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And then he punches that reality in the mouth and lays it out on the ground...
…so I can’t stay too mad at him.
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by jemaleddin on Oct 28, 2009 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, Rampage is dumb. I don’t know if that’s fighter bashing or not; I don’t say it from a place of hate. If so, feel free to delete and apologies to all. But just from the quotes above, you can see the guy does not have a keen grasp of life/mma/existence, etc.
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by The Kittitas Kid on Oct 28, 2009 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd say that he doesn't have a lot of writing experience.
…and yet his post was less rambling than a lot of the comments around here, so it’s hard to get too worked up.
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by jemaleddin on Oct 28, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're fine
That’s actor bashing, not fighter bashing.
by joerogansvnecktee on Oct 28, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hey! I already made that joke below! :-)
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by jemaleddin on Oct 28, 2009 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rampage is one of those guys where everything is about him. He will interpret every situation so that is either about him or to his advantage.
Of course he shoots himself in the foot a lot. I doubt Dana is going to take being called a crook too well in the contract negotiations.
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by toxic on Oct 28, 2009 10:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
He's immature....
Seriously, he is in a state of “arrested development”, the tiddies, herpes, etc comments… The guy is just childish….
by DeepStrike on Oct 28, 2009 10:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
And your point is? He likes to have fun, and sometimes at the expense of other people. If “titties” is so self conscious about being called “titties”, then maybe he should quit drinking, lose some weight, and lose his “titties”.
PS, if Rampage called me “titties”, I’d love it. It’s just a joke, I don’t see the harm. People talk about Tito’s big ass head all the time, you think he cares? I don’t.
by itsallgood013 on Oct 28, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rampage is a big spoiled baby… When things don’t go his way he cry’s like one anyways..
Sad thing is, even when he makes a valid point, he turns most people off with his childish antics and word choice..
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by MMAuthority on Oct 28, 2009 10:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Rampage needs to just let go. Focus on the movie thing and forget he was ever a fighter.
for all intents and purposes, just consider all my posts as works of satire.
by Bandaka on Oct 28, 2009 10:38 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Rampage has come out and said the blog edited him so he looks bad. He said blogs have an agenda… they are out to get him.
by mmalogic on Oct 28, 2009 10:45 AM EDT reply actions 9 recs
Anyone involved with a blog, you’re a fake. Don’t look at Rampage, talk to Rampage, or think about Rampage.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Oct 28, 2009 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I mean he’s not a blogger. Anyone who says he’s a bad blogger and his blogging made them lose fights, they can say it to his face
by StevenGiles on Oct 28, 2009 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The value he places on the “people from the A-Team movie” is not that misguided. Its just his connection to people on the outer edge of MMA fandom. People that might watch it, but don’t follow it. People that take a passing interest in it are the people that make the sport grow. They give it a chance. I watched two regretable fights with people like this and felt a similar way. Silva v. Leties and Easton vs. Beebe. Rampage feels like this was the UFC’s time to shine and blew the chance with, at least the hand full of new eyes he was watching it with. He will get over it because in my experience, these people are willing to give it another chance. However, he is right about a rematch with Forrest. That fight was close enough that a rematch would have been fine. In this case, the belt didn’t even change hands. Rampage is rightfully a little upset, but he did turn down a title shot since then and walk away from his fight with Rashad (for what I think was a good reason, but it screws the UFC).
by szucconi on Oct 28, 2009 10:54 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You know… thing is, he kinda got arrested lickity-split after that fight. It’s not like made himself available for a rematch…
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by AJB on Oct 28, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And said he had an injury.
Didn’t he need surgery on his jaw or something?
by Razreshat on Oct 28, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He fought Wandy on the same card Forrest lost the belt.
by szucconi on Oct 28, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Bit different than having him up as UFC LHW posterboy again without any kind of image rehab. For better or worse, his destruction of Wandy made the fans forget about the extracurriculars.
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by AJB on Oct 28, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
that was no destruction
just a well placed punch
Machida is a god
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by orcus on Oct 28, 2009 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, to be fair, aren’t well-placed punches often associated with destructions? I see what you’re saying though. He wasn’t all over him dominating him in wrestling and winning all sorts of scrambles and exchanges, but when your opponent is lying there with only his foot twitching and you’re standing there with hardly a sweat broke, I’d say destruction is pretty safe terminology.
by Dooda on Oct 28, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Naw, I wouldn’t use it in this instance. Anderson Silva destroyed most of his opponents, a well placed punch in the first exchange of a fight doesn’t really feel like destruction to me. This is not to take anything away from page, but their first two fights ended in destruction, they were fights in which Wandy destroyed Page IMO.
Machida is a god
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by orcus on Oct 28, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
A. What szucconi said…
B. He was at UFC 87, the next card. Not in jail or anything.
C. Wasn’t his energy drink fueled “god/road-rage” partly because he lost? IMO, if there was talk of an immediate rematch, he would’ve been feeling better about himself.
by itsallgood013 on Oct 28, 2009 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He said he was injured immediately after the fight and Griffin was hurt too. It was a good 6 months before either of them fought again and by that time Rampage had gone on his rampage. There was no talk about an immediate rematch because there was no talk about a immediate fight for either guy at all at that time, both guys were going to be on the bench with injuries.
by who me on Oct 28, 2009 9:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I said it before and I’ll say it again…
Considering the guy announced he’s done with the UFC and fighting, why is he posting blogs about MMA to get attention? Shouldn’t he be posting blogs about this weekend’s box office results or something? He said he’s quit fighting, he wants to get into movies…great, shift your blog content appropriately. He wants to be a fighter with fighter’s fans and not fight. It doesn’t work that way.
by Jason H. on Oct 28, 2009 1:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow - that's a lot of fighter bashing!
Or is it actor bashing?
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by jemaleddin on Oct 28, 2009 1:46 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Zing! Much more succinct way of saying what I’m saying.
by Jason H. on Oct 28, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, UFC was completely unfair to him after his loss to Forrest. They should’ve done more than bail him out, stand up for him when everyone else was shitting on him, get him right back into the ring to avenge his losses against Wandy, then put him in the main event, then offer him the choice of two extremely lucrative options: Coach tuf for tons of money, or fight Machida for the title (for tons of money).
I don’t blame Rampage for being upset. He has every right to be pointing fingers, I mean, it’s not like he ever did anything that might jeopardize his public image, or potentially harm the UFC’s image…
by Dooda on Oct 28, 2009 1:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
How many sports organizations would’ve distanced themselves from one of their stars who goes on an inexplicable tyrade of real life bumper cars? I mean, there’s pretty much only one way of looking at something like that. It wasn’t in one of those grey areas of morale action.
by Dooda on Oct 28, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s almost like he has this “What have you done for me lately” attitude. The UFC has done a LOT for him. More so than most fighters.
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by pud333 on Oct 28, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Picking judges? Anyone who works on TUF is fake? I don’t know if Rampage was always this paranoid, or if this is a recent development, but Rampage is casting himself as a really insecure person who is borderline delusional. It’s clear he doesn’t see the world the same way. He gets really defensive and won’t take responsibility for his behavior. As a fan, he’s making it really hard to root for him.
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by pud333 on Oct 28, 2009 2:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
For everyone so upset over "titties"
Have you ever played the dozens before? Have you even heard of it? Its a game, the insults are jokes, and the point isn’t to make someone cry, its to make the other person escalate their jokes so everyone can share a laugh. A side effect of the game is you grow thick skin and a sense of humor.
The fighter branded titties will never live that name down. He could cut to 6% bodyfat and Rampage would still call him titties.
by The Lethal Haze on Oct 28, 2009 6:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
So Rampage telling the guy that he was going to knock him out if he got up in his face again was part of the game too? It’s only a “game” if both of them are playing.
by who me on Oct 28, 2009 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol
I didn’t see the incident in question, so bear in mind I can’t speak on the specifics of that altercation until I do.
Two things I can say in general, though:
1) If you lose your shit during the dozens it means you’ve lost.
2) If the words that led up to the incident weren’t said in jest, they weren’t playing anymore.
by The Lethal Haze on Oct 29, 2009 1:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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