Rampage Jackson retired from fighting in September citing problems with the UFC. Jackson claims he was coerced into fights, told what to say by Dana White regarding a delayed fight, and not properly promoted. All of that and he wanted to go play B.A. Baracus in an A-Team movie.
Rampage took some time out of his busy movie making schedule for Playboy’s December 20Q and he doesn’t let us down. Jackson’s answers involve tampons, HotWheels, miscarriages, and Japanese people looking like living robots. In other words he’ll never be part-owner of an NFL team.
Wade Keller at MMA Torch has a preview of Rampage’s responses:
“I actually hated coaching. The job f**king sucked. And they better not ask me to do it again. It’s just f**king too much,” says Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in Playboy’s December 20Q when asked about his role on the reality series The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights www.playboydigital.com Friday, November 13). “I’ve got kids I didn’t see, and I’d bust out crying whenever I looked at their picture. And I ain’t gonna lie – the pay f**king sucked for how much work I did.”
-On who first gave him the nickname Rampage: “I got the nickname from my cousin when I was eight years old. I had a bad temper. When I would lose my temper my family thought it was amusing because I used to huff and hyperventilate. It was bad. … When I was around 15, I tattooed it on my arm myself.”
-On his role in the upcoming remake of The A-Team, the movie that caused him to quit the UFC: “I can’t talk too much about it. I’m doing it now that I’ve finished this reality show. … I used to bond with my father watching The A-Team as a kid. My dad and I are still big fans of the show, so I am basically doing this for the childhood memories.”
-On his arrest last year on felony hit-and-run charges: “A lady tried to sue me and say she had a miscarriage because of the accident, but the DA said it had nothing to do with the miscarriage. Anyway, that’s old news.”
-On the hardest punch he’s ever thrown: “That was in my fight last December when I knocked out Wanderlei Silva. … It was very technical. I think that was the hardest punch I’ve ever thrown. He was out before he hit the ground. … I connected and did everything exactly right. I just felt like butter.”
I could be wrong but shooting a movie doesn’t give Mr. Jackson a lot of time to spend with his kids. But it does give him easy money and the “I’m coming out of retirement” fight. If he’s really done fighting I hope he finds a way to stay in the limelight because he gives some of the best quotes in sports.
UFC?News: Rampage Jackson says he hated coaching The Ultimate Fighter “and they better not ask me to do it again” [MMA Torch]







