Quinton Jackson
Following his first fight in Japan in exactly six years, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson was quick to declare that Saturday was not the last time you will see him in the Octagon.
In his return to Japan, Jackson was unable to get past Ryan Bader, who overpowered the former UFC champion. Jackson, 33, came into the fight with an undisclosed injury. After the fight, he announced it was a knee injury he suffered during training camp that caused him to come into the fight overweight. Weighing in at 211 pounds, Jackson missed weight for the first time in his illustrious career.
The extra weight and lack of conditioning was evident, as Jackson was unable to overcome the strength of Bader. Jackson stated he re-injured the knee during the fight, from a slam by Bader in the second round. The third round went much like the first two, and Bader was awarded the victory by unanimous decision.
But even with the loss, his second in a row, Jackson declared he is not going to retire. He took to his Twitter account, stating “”Just so you guys know I’m not going to retire, I’m gonna heal up then get back on top, thanks to all my fans that are still with me…I fight for you.”
It is not known how long Jackson will be out of action due to the injury and loss, or even how long Jackson will remain in mixed martial arts. Following his loss to Jon Jones in September, Jackson expressed interest in switching to boxing once his current contract with the UFC expires.
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Just another day in the life of Quinton “Still Got More Excuses” Jackson.
He’s to slow for MMA so he’s going to try boxing………..let us know how that works out for ya Rampage.
Man how quick you guys turn on your favorite old stars… I don’t get it. You can say a lot of things about rampage, but too slow?? Excuses?? Before this fight his last two losses were to the hands down top 2 lhws in the world, one who he could’ve gotten the decision and the other whom he fought better than anyone before.
How can you not believe he was injured, look how fat and slow he looked. He had never ever missed weight in his life. And before the slam that he hurt his knee on he was preventing Bader from doing the one boring a** thing that we all hate – using his lifetime of wrestling to hold rampage on the ground and hump him for 8 minutes while not landing any blows. You can hate him if you want (and I really don’t know how, I lfreaking love that animal) but he’s not an excuse maker and Def not slow. Um did you happen to see his LAST fight against bones lol. Amazing.
Rampage is a total stud and anomaly in that he is admittedly and patently a street brawler, who is somehow good enough at it to beat most all highly trained mixed martial arts and artists that roam earth. Effin love that dude, so glad he’s not retiring. Watch him beat shogun next then everyone turn on shogun lol.
Yeah. I saw him waddle forward, land nearly nothing, and get choked out against Bones. I also saw him not “be” Rampage since the Chuck fight. I mean, he dropped the belt to Forrest Griffin, for crying out loud, and he makes mistakes after every loss. He’s like a black Jacob Ortiz now.
When he wins, it’s like he thinks he dominated (he hasn’t), and when he loses….well, what do you know? Undisclosed, unprovable injury. Tito part 2.
To all the people hating on Jackson. Are you simply new to the sport of mma or is your perspective from the seat of your armchair so deluded that you are actually coming against an athlete that has entered the octagon and has fought with aggression and heart in each and every match he has had in the UFC. Win or lose he has always brought it against the very best. And those of you who bring up past losses to other UFC top 10 guys when dissing fighters…are you saying that to be considered in your ‘prime’ or to be great you have to be undefeated? Hey Shiny Happy Person- Styles make fights. Any true mma fan knows this from watching highs and lows in many fighters careers. Seriously, I have no respect for punks like you who come on these threads and diss hard working fighters for no reason whatsoever. I personally have never been a huge Jackson fan when it comes to his personality, but I will stand for the fact the man fights his hardest. I for one have never seen Jackson look so slow, tired, and winded. He was not aggressive…he was not on his game at all. He looked pretty damn good against Jones(even in defeat), and Lyoto. And the other night he was not himself. So I give the benefit of the doubt to an athlete that has always proved to be credible…he has always delivered and I think on another night this fight would have been alot more competitive. He was clearly injured and now we will move on, and see alot more great matches involving a CURRENTLY great fighter.
By the way, I recall Jackson saying ‘Lyoto Machida whooped my ass’ when he won the decision in their fight. Just saying…maybe you just hate because your a hater. Get your facts straight.
Think he may benefit from a change of coaches. He needs to be less predictable, try couple of leg kicks or even a takedown attempt to set up his boxing attack
Rampage vs Tito battle of the excuses lol
Nah. Tito didn’t get dominated by Bader.
Just saying.
He only got dominated by LIdell twice. I’m a Tito fan and I don’t agree with you.
I love ‘ol Rampage, but he’s just a shell of his former self. I’m not sure which is worse, his skills in the cage, or his excuse making.I don’t think he’s been the same since the Griffin fight. Time to retire.
Ooh did you just make up history shiny! Wow how sweet! None of the stuff you just murmured made any sense. You forgot that he beat hendo after that little baby? I guess the win over Machida was also not acceptable in your negative little book? And the domination of hammil, Jardine, Silva, and close decision against rashad were just so disappointing in YOUR high standards of elite negativity.
Just because your life sucks, doesn’t mean you should try to lie to us about what we know is reality.No personal attacks. -BSBiz
Bezzar he beat Machida, everyone’s hero after that lol. Did you forget that? Or that Machida was once god, the undefeated champ?
Shiny everyone with any.sense knows the tito.win over Bader was a total fluke. Total domination? They hugged once and.fell into a guillotine. Even my little sister knows rampage beats tito 10 out of.10 times. Wow I’m done wasting my seconds on that comment.
Fluke or not, it still happened regardless of whether you try to explain it away.
Rampage v Shogun II – make it happen! Both are coming off losses to very tough competition and basically have the same win-loss record recently, and even over the past dozen fights or so. This could be a good co-main event, or headline a Fuel or FX or Fox card. Just a suggestion.
I think its def gonna happen munkey.
I hope so Devin, and if not … just to stir the pot a little more … how about a Rampage v Ace fight?
Bsbiz, haha oh I could just go for YEARS not giving an F what happens with a tito/bader joke. But honestly I think you’re too busy correcting everyone to share real input bro.
And I really don’t need to explain anything away, tito sucks as we know, and I guess in shiny’s logic Bader does to and then so does rampage. Wow, what electrifying and rich commentary.
Do not ever refer to me as “bro” again, please.
Hm…not sure if ace is back (major shoulder surgery I believe) but draw wise it’d work. I think he needs to fight a cbigger guy next like Davis, shogun, even griffin. Maybe he could go ahead and retire tito finally.
Rampage doesn’t deserve to be in the cage with Shogun at this point, even if Jackson is a solidified Cash-Cow. Truth is, Jackson hasn’t looked good/elite in years (well, unless you call decision-ing Keith Jardine a “spectacular performance”).
Bader deserves Rua much more atm (not that I think he could win that fight).
A Jackson/Griffin rematch or Jackson/Franklin seem a much more likely Zuffa selling gimmick.
Thanks for the correction it was expected lol
As EVERYONE knows Rampage is my dawg. The reason I fell in love with MMA. Some loved, Chuck Liddel, some love Royce my Fav was always Rampage.
Yeah he is sensitive and says some dumb stuff sometimes but they all do, Rampage talks and retweets to fans as well,he HASN’T been busted for “steriods/cheating” in octagon, but most important the Guy is a legend in this sport and fans tend to forget that. Rampage help pave the way in MMA wether they give him credit for it or not. Dude fought the best in a time where it actually meant something!! He fought a healthy prime younger Chuck Liddel 2x winner by KO & TKO, Beat Dan Henderson to become the 1ST PERSON TO UNIFY THE PRIDE & UFC BELT!!!!! ONLY ANDERSON SILVA accomplished that. He comes to fight everytime, soo what he slowing down its been obvious and he been saying in sooooooo many interviews he getting injured alot in training loooonnng before his loses. He also said his body is not like a Randy Couture who could fight to 47, nor is that his intent. Why cruxify him???
Chuck liddel was slowing and had developed a pillow chin after his 2nd fight with Rampage, but we all still loved and respected him because he came in to battle. Give Rampage that same credit and respect. He isnt done yet, and I believe this loss is just what the doctor ordered. He’s in a corner and the only way out is to come out fighting…! I believe He will, Rich Franklin said he was not motivated well Richy YOUR NEXT… Time to find out or eat them words.
Very well said. Funny how people turn on fighters so fast. I can only imagine that they just are newer followers, with no disrespect intended.
Yeah shiny likes to make up, or negate history. But people who look at life half glass empty tend to do that.