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Quinton Jackson vs. Marco Bermudez

Quinton Jackson vs. Marvin Eastman

Quinton Jackson vs. Rob Smith

Quinton Jackson vs. Dave Taylor

Quinton Jackson vs. Rocko Henderson

Quinton Jackson vs. Kenneth Williams

Quinton Jackson vs. Alexander Otsuka

EXTRA: "Rampage" Unchained

Quinton Jackson vs. Yuki Ishikawa

Quinton Jackson vs. Daijiro Matsui

Quinton Jackson vs. Masaaki Satake

Quinton Jackson vs. Sean Gray

Quinton Jackson vs. Igor Vovchanchyn

Quinton Jackson vs. Kevin Randleman

EXTRA: Pre fight Randleman/Jackson

Quinton Jackson vs. Mikhal Illoukhine

Quinton Jackson vs. Murilo Bustamante

Quinton Jackson vs. Chuck Liddell I

Quinton Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva I

Quinton Jackson vs. Ikuhisa Minowa

Quinton Jackson vs. Ricardo Arona

EXTRA: Skit Pre-Pride 17

EXTRA: Uncut Arona interview

EXTRA: Silva watches Jackson/Randleman

Quinton Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva II

Quinton Jackson vs. Murilo Rua

Quinton Jackson vs. Mauricio Rua

Preview: Silva/Rampage II

Uncut interview: Pre-Ninja

Quinton Jackson vs. Hirotaka Yokoi

Quinton Jackson vs. Dong Sik Yoon

Quinton Jackson vs. Matt Lindland

Quinton Jackson vs. Chuck Liddell II

Quinton Jackson vs. Dan Henderson

Quinton Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin

Quinton Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva III

Quinton Jackson vs. Keith Jardine

Quinton Jackson vs. Rashad Evans

Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (born June 20, 1978 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American professional mixed
martial arts fighter who rose to prominence with his fights in Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships. He is
the former UFC light heavyweight champion losing to Forrest Griffin at UFC 86 by unanimous decision. He
has a professional record of 28 wins with seven losses. Jackson is ranked by Sherdog as the number two light
heavyweight in the world.[1] Outside the ring, he is known for his humor and colorful personality.[2]

Mixed martial arts career
Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson had his first taste of combat sport as a
wrestler for Raleigh-Egypt High School where his successful career was punctuated by All-State honors.
Originally, Jackson had intended on pursuing a career in professional wrestling upon finishing high school, but
ultimately ended up extending his amateur career in junior college before discovering mixed martial arts.
Impressed by the success of other wrestlers in MMA, Jackson decided to try his own hand at the sport.
Jackson built up an impressive record of 11 wins and 1 loss fighting for a variety of smaller scale American
promotions, including King of the Cage, Gladiator Challenge and Dangerzone.

PRIDE Fighting Championships
For all his early successes it was not on his native soil but rather in Japan's PRIDE organization that Jackson
rose to fame in the world of mixed martial arts. Entering PRIDE in 2001 as a previously unknown fighter,
Jackson was matched at PRIDE 15 against fellow wrestler and Japanese superstar Kazushi Sakuraba, who was
at that time PRIDE's most prominent domestic fighter.[citation needed] Jackson lost due to a rear naked
choke from Sakuraba, but his performance opened the eyes of PRIDE's fan base and its executive office.

After besting pro-wrestler Alexander Otsuka in a fight for the Battlarts promotion, Jackson was invited back
for PRIDE 17 where he scored a knockout victory over Otsuka’s training partner, Yuki Ishikawa. In his next
fight, Jackson was disqualified for an accidental low blow against Daijiro Matsui.

Jackson then went on to defeat Masaaki Satake, Igor Vovchanchyn, Kevin Randleman and Mikhail Illoukhine in
successive PRIDE bouts. He also made forays into kickboxing with a pair of victories over kickboxer Cyril
Abidi, under K-1 rules.[citation needed] In 2002, when PRIDE Fighting Championships and K-1 were
exchanging talent, Jackson was sent to fight kickboxer Cyril Abidi under K-1 rules. The first kickboxing bout
between Abidi and Jackson was on July 14, 2002. Many expected Jackson's wild style of striking would not
translate into the K-1 ring, thinking he would be outclassed by such a schooled and disciplined striker as
Abidi.[citation needed] Instead, Jackson overwhelmed Abidi from the opening bell, and knocked him down
less than a minute into the bout. Jackson then scored a hard underhand right to the chin of Abidi, knocking
him out only 1:55 into the very first round.

Later in the year, Abidi wanted to prove his loss to the undisciplined Jackson was nothing more than a fluke,
and faced him on the New Year's Eve Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye card, again in a K-1 rules bout.[citation needed]
Jackson laid a lot of criticism to rest by once again defeating Abidi, this time not by early knockout, but via
a clear decision.[citation needed] It would be Jackson's last foray with kickboxing, as he returned to full-
time MMA competition after his second win over Abidi.

Around this time, Jackson began stating his intentions to capture the PRIDE middleweight (205 lb/93kb) title
from Wanderlei Silva. In the opening round of PRIDE's 2003 Middleweight Grand Prix, Jackson won a split
decision over Murilo Bustamante. Three months later, Jackson defeated UFC fighter Chuck Liddell in the
tournament's semi-finals at PRIDE Final Conflict 2003 by corner stoppage, putting him in place to battle Silva
in the tournament finals that night. Jackson fought for the championship against Silva in what was called
fight of the year by various MMA media.[who?] After taking Wanderlei Silva down and bloodying him, a
stand-up was called by the referee and Jackson was stopped with a series of knees to the head.

Jackson continued his PRIDE career with victories over Ikuhisa Minowa and Ricardo Arona, the latter bout
being notable for the highlight reel worthy powerbomb slam by which Jackson rendered Arona unconscious
after Arona had locked Jackson in a very tight triangle choke. The bout also served as an eliminator to
determine the top contender for Wanderlei Silva's title.

Prior to his rematch with Silva, the notoriously brash Jackson made headlines with the public announcement
of his conversion to born again Christianity. In the fight itself, Jackson floored Silva in the opening round
and later scored a takedown which led to a series of knees and elbows at the end of the round. Jackson
scored another takedown in the second round, but Silva escaped to his feet and proceeded to knock out
Jackson with knee strikes to the head for the second time.

Jackson's next two bouts were against Silva's Chute Boxe training camp partners. He won a split decision
over Murilo "Ninja" Rua, but fell to Rua's younger brother, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, via TKO in the elimination
series of PRIDE's 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix, where Rua broke one of Jackson's ribs early in the fight and
proceeded to win by soccer kicks to Jackson's head.[citation needed]

Jackson was berated by his trainers following the loss to "Shogun". Soon after, Jackson was contacted by
veteran boxing and MMA trainer Juanito Ibarra, who saw potential in Jackson's natural abilities but viewed
his profane reputation as a downfall. After a short conversation, Jackson entrusted Ibarra, a fellow born
again Christian, with the managerial and training direction of his career.[3]

Jackson then earned wins over Hirotaka Yokoi and Yoon Dong-Sik before leaving the PRIDE organization.


After PRIDE

On May 16, 2006, the World Fighting Alliance announced it had signed Jackson to a multi-fight deal. He
defeated Matt Lindland in by split decision at WFA: King of the Streets on July 22, 2006. "He is a good
fighter," Jackson said. "I trained hard. He is an Olympic silver medalist. So much respect to him. I knew I
had to bring it."[citation needed] The match turned out to be a tough one for the Memphis native who got
caught in guillotine choke holds twice. "Rampage" managed to get out both times, and slammed Lindland a
few times before cutting the bridge of his nose with ground and pound on his way to the win

UFC career

Jackson lands a right hook that drops Chuck Liddell in UFC 71, winning the light heavyweight title.On
December 11, 2006, Zuffa, the parent company of the UFC, announced it had acquired select assets from the
World Fighting Alliance, which ceased operations as part of their sales agreement. Jackson's WFA contract
was one of the assets acquired.[4]

In an interview on the UFC program Inside the UFC, Jackson said it was finally time for him to enter the
organization, and that he had not before because of his friendship with UFC fighter Tito Ortiz. Jackson said
that because Ortiz was one of the biggest stars in the UFC, and that both were fighters in the same weight
class, he did not want to interfere.[citation needed]

Jackson made his UFC debut at UFC 67, where he knocked out Marvin Eastman, avenging an early career loss.

At UFC 71 on May 26, 2007 Jackson faced UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell in a title rematch
of their 2003 PRIDE bout. Approximately 90 seconds into the first round, Jackson caught Liddell with a right
hook to the jaw that sent him down to the mat, whereupon Jackson pummeled him for a referee stoppage
at 1:53 seconds to capture the UFC light heavyweight championship.

Jackson then narrowly defeated PRIDE Middleweight Champion Dan Henderson at UFC 75,[5] on September
8, 2007 in London, England via unanimous decision to unify the two organizations' titles.[6]

On December 9, 2007 it was announced by Dana White at Spike TV's Video Game Awards show that Jackson
will be one of the two coaches of The Ultimate Fighter 7. At the conclusion of the season, Jackson will fight
the other coach and number one contender Forrest Griffin at UFC 86. During the show Jackson showed his
temper after his fighters repeatedly lost to Team Forrest. Going into the semifinals only 2 of Jacksons
original fighters made the cut while Forrest had 6 of his fighters advance. In the finale Team Griffin's pick,
Amir Sadallah beat Team Rampage's top fighter C.B. Dollaway via armbar in the first round.

On July 5, 2008 he fought Griffin for the light heavyweight championship at UFC 86. In the first round of the
fight Rampage wobbled Griffin with two solid power punches, and soon after knocking Griffin down.
Rampage's power proved to be problematic for the young Griffin as Rampage consistently tagged him
throughout the fight.[7] In contrast, Griffin pushed the pace of the fight from start to finish and stayed
much more aggresive than Jackson for most of the second round with multiple leg kicks and by mounting
Quinton and landing elbows to his head. In later rounds Jackson managed to take Griffin down twice and
work his own ground game, even executing his signature power bomb. Many took note as Jackson was
showing obvious discomfort from the effects of the leg kicks. The next three rounds were described by
Sherdog as "somewhat uneventful" with Rampage searching for the knockout punch while Griffin threw
whatever he could with long jabs, leg and body kicks.[7][8] Griffin was awarded a unanimous decision with
the scores 46-48, 46-48 and 46-49 in what many considered an upset.[9] After the fight both Griffin and his
coach Randy Couture expressed that they thought the fight was close,[8] and Rampage's coach, Juanito
Ibarra, had planned to protest the unanimous decision with the Nevada State Athletic Commission.[9]
However, after speaking with the commission about his complaint, he decided not to file because he was
informed that even if the judges scores were changed to his satisfaction, the fight would still result in a
victory for Griffin by a majority decision. [10] [11]. Soon after the fight, Jackson fired his long time
trainer/manager Ibarra[12] There were talks of an immediate rematch after the fight.[9]


[edit] Personal life
Outside of the ring, Jackson enjoys playing video games (Halo 3 is his favorite and plays online via xbox live)
and listening to music; Jackson recorded some rap songs before his conversion to Christianity (see below),
but he has since expressed interest in redoing the tracks before releasing them, as the original recordings
have explicit language that Jackson no longer wishes to be associated with.[citation needed]


Jackson on UFC:All Access with his kids while training in Big Bear Lake, California (2007). Jackson stated this
training period was more disciplined than his previous training periods, and that it is important to his
training to have his kids close by.Also well known is Jackson's change to Christianity. This occurred
sometime after his successful fight with Ricardo Arona (September, 2004). An article written by Sherdog's
Josh Gross describes Jackson's experience: "In the middle of a late-summer night Jackson and his
kindergarten-age son D’Angelo woke up to separate, though eerily similar dreams. Both were shaken, so
much so that at 4 a.m. they had to get out of their apartment. To Jackson, it was a sign. 'You know how
girls cry when they’re happy?' he said. 'That’s how I was. I think I felt Jesus' love. I don’t know. I
automatically knew everything after I was born again.'"[13]

Jackson resides in Irvine, CA with four children: D'Angelo, Raja, Elijah and Naname Nakia Jackson. All three
boys have the middle name "Rampage" while Naname has just "'Page." Jackson's wife, Yuki, separated from
him in 2006 after a blood test proved that he had fathered a child, Raja, with another woman in 2000.[14]

Jackson also occasionally appears in films, including Confessions of a Pit Fighter.[citation needed]

Jackson has appeared on Fox Sports Network's, "Sports Science," Episode 2, in which the force of Jackson's
punch and a sumo wrestler's force are compared.

Jackson has also appeared on an episode of Jackass giving Ryan Dunn tips on fighting.[15]

On July 15, 2008, Jackson was arrested and booked on suspicion of felony reckless driving, and felony hit and
run after striking several vehicles. He led pursuing officers on a chase while driving on the wrong side of the
street and on city sidewalks in his lifted Ford F-350 with his picture painted on the side. During the chase
one of the tires blew out on his truck and he continued to flee while driving on his rims and showering the
street with sparks. [16] The day before his arrest, Jackson gave an interview and said he had become
depressed after his recent loss by decision to Forrest Griffin.[17] On July 16, 2008, someone in Jackson's
household flagged down police and reported that Jackson was acting unusually. Jackson was escorted to a
mental health institution for observations.[18] On July 18, 2008, UFC President Dana White gave an
interview to Yahoo! Sports in which he said that Jackson had initially been detained for a 72 hour stay, but
that had been extended. White was quoted as saying, "I think it's going to be a while before we get him
back." White also claimed that before the detainment, Jackson did not sleep for four days and was not
eating, but only drinking water and energy drinks. According to White, no drugs were found in Jackson's
system.[19]