Rampage Says “Grow Up”
In various interviews over the past few weeks Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s words were scrambled according to the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. The situation created a frenzy among many fans, especially those of Wanderlei Silva and Forrest Griffin, because the rumor mill was quoting Jackson as calling Silva “The Chump Murderer”, a play on his “The Axe Murderer” nickname, and saying Griffin has a weak chin.
Jackson has now set the record straight on the misquotes in an interview with Percy Crawford of Fight Hype.
In regards to his next opponent, Forrest Griffin, Jackson had this to say:
“I ain’t talking bad about nobody. I didn’t call him ‘Forrest Weakchin.’ If anything, I said I’m fighting Forrest Whitaker. I know inside stuff that people don’t know. I know Forrest gets knocked out at practice sometimes; I know Jardine knocked him out real quick and I know my boy ‘Sick Dog’ almost knocked him out and he wasn’ really even punching…. In what I do, we call that a weak chin.â€
In regards to his comments about Silva he added:
“I didn’ call Wanderlei the ‘Chump Murderer.’ I ain’t never said nothing like that. That is kind of disrespectful. I just said he was fighting chumpsâ€.
“Rampage” also spoke out to the many fans that added to this situation saying:
“You can tell the fans I lost respect for them because they nitpicking about every damn thang. People always trying to find something to hate on me about. Tell all of the fans that Rampage … at the end of the message, tell all of the fans that nitpick about every lil’ damn thing we do to grow the hell up.â€
Jackson is one of the most charismatic and marketable fighters ever to fight for the promotion and truly enjoys his fame and the opportunity to fight for a living. You can next see “Rampage” put Griffin’s coaching skills to the test starting on The Ultimate Fighter 7 this Wednesday, April 2nd, after UFC Fight Night 13. He will then put Griffin’s chin to the test as they headline UFC 86 July 5th in Las Vegas.
Tags: Forrest Griffin, Quinton Jackson
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Hahaha, this would have been funnier if he would have came out and said that all that was true! It also would have been pretty dumb though because Wandy has beaten Rampage a couple times.
You would think that Forrest has a good chin after some of the wars he’s been in …. I guess thats why he got so bothered after Jardine knocked him out….he must be insecure about it or something …
I know that Rampage has a strong chin. The beatings hes taken from Wanderlei and Shogun WOW and it took them tons of shots to end the fight lol ……….
This should be an ineteresting season of TUF, these guys both have interesting characters ….
Who would have guessed that Rampage got brutally knocked out by Silva on two separate occasions….
Yea, no joke! Especially the second time!!
rampage ur a chump i seen u get ur ass kicked by silva twice and shogun kicked ur ass so when u beat them then talk some **** to them
Rampage can promote a fight with the best of them. I remember him saying he was interested in pro wrestling before choosing MMA.
I would say that Forrest has been a little more cerebral in his matches since the Jardine KO. Forrest was hella wreckless when he started out in the UFC. I think he changed his style for the best.
Wanderlei Silva damn near killed Rampage. Twice! LOL.
He is right but it turns out that the Silva Murderd him twice…does that make him a chump 2x over?
I do realize that Rampage is quite the promoter. I will also go ahead and say he is one heck of a mma fighter, but good god, the guy almost seems to belong in pro wrestling!! Everyone talks some trash, but the dude is and has been just one big show put on just like in wrestling ever since he came to UFC. Dog chains, howling, etc. I hate to think of people looking at mma, (UFC), the same way.
yes but if you actually watched those fights they where Damn good fights both Wanderlei Silva and Jackson go to war when they fight!! man those where probably the best fights of the year in pride i remember watching in was not like he got dominated an had no chance, hes definitely the best at this point in time on till proven otherwise! and i doubt Forrest will beat him. i like Forrest but i just dont think hes ready for ranpage yet why has he not faced liddle or sliva before title his shoot.
wow, even i heard him call forrest on that ****, maybe not those words exactly but he did say forrest had a glass jaw, punched like a cracker and wouldnt last two minutes. not only has that made him a liar but the remarks about silva are simply laughable because HE was one of those ‘chumps’. furthermore his boy hector never had a chance against forrest, let alone ‘almost knocked him out’, that was an obvious gift for griffin. so i don’t know what he’s tryin to do but it makes him look stupid in my eyes, not that anyone considered him a bright guy in the first place. this should be by far the biggest test for forrest but i think he woke up after taking jardine lightly and just might have a solid game plan, combine that with the lack of respect, should be interesting.
rampage is acting more and more like a thug, not to mention he lost a lot of credibility when he starting hanging out and training with that loser bisping. he just seems over-rated and besides, he’s only defended his belt once since he got it. something’s wrong there and i hope forrest whups him.
I’m not sure who the chumps are that Rampage is referring to. In his last handful of fights Silva has fought Liddell, Henderson, Cro-cop and Arona. Not exactly chumps.
I don’t have a problem with what he said, this is not cheerleading. Forrest must know he has a weak chin, we don’t rate someone off of one fight. We saw fighters stand and bang with neither fighter having ko power. Bonner has look sick since that fight, so I can’t completely rate Forrest from that fight. Plus if Sylva fought Jackson the way he fought Liddell he’d get owned. People down Jackson for what he said yet they’ll say things like, Forrest woke up after he took Jardine lightly, or Chuck had an off day when he got beat by Jardine. That is kinda hypocritical, since Jardine beat both men but yet he really isn’t that good, so is that disrespectful or are we held to a different standard. Anderson Sylva stood in the cage and degraded Hendo is he held to a different standard. Some of you have degraded Tim Sylvia yet he has only lost to the very best in the world, so before we throw stones lets show the same level of respect that we are demanding.
I think most people do not like Rampage because he beat Liddel twice really bad and really easy, and of course, Liddel is everyone darling! So when Rampage says or does something, he catches heat from the fans. Someone like Liddel does something, the fans will make excuses for him like when he lost to Jardine, “he just over looked him, or he had an off night”…no he just got beat, “period”!!
Rampage is funny and very candid…he has a eunique approach to his interviews in that he likes to make people laugh…he’s different and is just trying to have fun and people aren’t used to the lighter side of a fighter. Forrest is similar in that he likes making people laugh as well and he is very different. That’s whats going to be different about this season of TUF. There should be some pretty funny moments