Quinton Jackson
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Quinton Jackson is currently fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight promotion in the Light Heavyweight division (205 lbs). He rose to prominence with his fights in Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships, before the company was bought out by Zuffa.
Jackson is the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. He defeated Chuck Liddell for the belt and defended it against Dan Henderson, where he retained the belt, but then lost it to current Champion Forrest Griffin.
Jackson holds major wins over Wanderlei Silva, Dan Henderson, Chuck Liddell (twice), Matt Lindland, Murilo Rua, and Ricardo Arona.
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Name | Quinton Jackson |
| Nickname | Rampage | |
| Height | 6' 1" (185cm) | |
| Weight | 205 lbs (93kg) | |
| Association | Wolfslair MMA | |
| Weight Class | LHW | |
| Style | Wrestling, Boxing | |
| Birth Date | 6/20/1978 | |
| City | Memphis | |
| State | Tennessee | |
| Country | USA |
Contents |
Professional Record
| Record | 29 - 7 - 0 (Win - Loss - Draw) |
| Wins | 14 (T)KOs 7 Submissions 8 Decisions |
| Losses | 3 (T)KO's 1 Submission 2 Decision 1 Other |
| Result | Opponent | Method | Event Title | Date | Round | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | Wanderlei Silva | KO (Punch) | UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008 | 12/27/2008 | 1 | 3:21 | Won Knockout of the Night award |
| Loss | Forrest Griffin | Decision (Unanimous) | UFC 86: Jackson vs. Griffin | 7/3/2008 | 5 | 5:00 | Lost UFC Light Heavyweight Championship (46-48, 46-48, 46-49); Won Fight of the Night Honors |
| Win | Dan Henderson | Decision (Unanimous) | UFC 75: Champion vs. Champion | 9/8/2007 | 5 | 5:00 | Defended UFC Light Heavyweight Championship & became last PRIDE Middleweight Champion |
| Win | Chuck Liddell | TKO (Punches) | UFC 71: Liddell vs. Jackson | 5/26/2007 | 1 | 1:53 | Won UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, Won Knockout of the Night Honors |
| Win | Marvin Eastman | KO (Punches) | UFC 67: All or Nothing | 2/3/2007 | 2 | 3:49 | |
| Win | Matt Lindland | Decision (Split) | WFA - King of the Streets | 7/22/2006 | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Win | Dong Sik Yoon | Decision (Unanimous) | PRIDE 31 - Dreamers | 2/26/2006 | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Win | Hirotaka Yokoi | TKO (Punches and Stomps) | PRIDE 30 - Fully Loaded | 10/23/2005 | 1 | 4:05 | |
| Loss | Mauricio Rua | TKO (Strikes) | PRIDE - Total Elimination 2005 | 4/23/2005 | 1 | 4:47 | |
| Win | Murilo Rua | Decision (Split) | PRIDE 29 - Fists Of Fire | 2/20/2005 | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Loss | Wanderlei Silva | KO | PRIDE 28 - High Octane | 10/31/2004 | 2 | 3:26 | For PRIDE Middleweight Championship |
| Win | Ricardo Arona | KO (Slam) | PRIDE - Critical Countdown 2004 | 6/20/2004 | 1 | 7:32 | |
| Win | Ikuhisa Minowa | TKO (Punches) | PRIDE - Shockwave 2003 | 12/31/2003 | 2 | 1:05 | |
| Loss | Wanderlei Silva | TKO (Strikes) | PRIDE - Final Conflict 2003 | 11/9/2003 | 1 | 6:28 | Middleweight Grand Prix Final |
| Win | Chuck Liddell | TKO (Strikes) | PRIDE - Final Conflict 2003 | 11/9/2003 | 2 | 3:10 | Middleweight Grand Prix Semi-Final |
| Win | Murilo Bustamante | Decision (Split) | PRIDE - Total Elimination 2003 | 8/10/2003 | 3 | 5:00 | Middleweight Grand Prix Quarter-Final |
| Win | Mikhail Illoukhine | Submission (Strikes) | PRIDE 26 - Bad to the Bone | 6/8/2003 | 1 | 6:26 | |
| Win | Kevin Randleman | TKO (Punches) | PRIDE 25 - Body Blow | 3/16/2003 | 1 | 6:58 | |
| Win | Igor Vovchanchyn | Submission (Injury) | PRIDE 22 - Beasts From The East 2 | 9/29/2002 | 1 | 7:17 | |
| Win | Sean Gray | TKO | KOTC 13 - Revolution | 5/17/2002 | 3 | 0:37 | |
| Win | Masaaki Satake | TKO (Injury from Slam) | PRIDE 20 - Armed and Ready | 4/28/2002 | 1 | 7:07 | |
| Loss-DQ | Daijiro Matsui | DQ (Knee to Groin) | PRIDE 18 - Cold Fury 2 | 12/23/2001 | 1 | 0:14 | |
| Win | Yuki Ishikawa | KO | PRIDE 17 - Championship Chaos | 11/3/2001 | 1 | 1:52 | |
| Win | Alexander Otsuka | TKO (Doctor Stoppage) | BattlArts - BattlArts vs. the World | 10/14/2001 | 2 | 5:00 | |
| Loss | Kazushi Sakuraba | Submission (Rear Naked Choke) | PRIDE 15 - Raging Rumble | 7/29/2001 | 1 | 5:41 | |
| Win | Kenneth Williams | Submission (Rear Naked Choke) | GC 4 - Collision at Colusa | 6/17/2001 | 1 | 4:40 | |
| Win | Bryson Howvreck | Submission (Strikes) | KOTC 8 - Bombs Away | 4/29/2001 | 1 | 1:48 | |
| Win | Rocko Henderson | Submission (Kimura) | GC 3 - Showdown at Soboba | 4/7/2001 | 2 | 1:15 | |
| Win | Dave Taylor | TKO (Towel Thrown Between Rounds) | GC 2 - Collision at Colusa | 2/18/2001 | 1 | 5:00 | |
| Win | Charlie West | Decision | GC 1 - Gladiator Challenge 1 | 12/9/2000 | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Win | Rob Smith | Decision | KOTC 6 - Road Warriors | 11/29/2000 | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Win | Warren Owsley | Submission (Armbar) | Dangerzone - Night of the Beast | 10/28/2000 | 1 | 6:04 | |
| Win | Ron Rumpf | TKO (Punches from Mount) | CFA 2 - Continental Freefighting Alliance 2 | 7/19/2000 | 1 | 1:18 | |
| Loss | Marvin Eastman | Decision | KOTC 4 - Gladiators | 6/24/2000 | 2 | 5:00 | |
| Win | Marco Bermudaz | Submission (Rear Naked Choke) | HBUP - Huntington Beach Underground Pancrase | 5/13/2000 | 2 | N/A | |
| Win | Mike Pyle | Decision | ISCF - Memphis | 11/13/1999 | N/A | N/A |
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
It was not upon native soil but rather in Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships that he ultimately rose to fame in the mixed martial arts world. Coming into the Japanese promotion as a hitherto unknown quality fighter against their flagship athlete - Japanese sensation and fellow wrestler - Kazushi Sakuraba at PRIDE 15, Jackson astounded audiences by taking the fight to Sakuraba in what is widely recognized as one of the sports' most exciting contests. Though taken down repeatedly by the smaller Sakuraba's expertly applied low single-leg, Jackson, once on the canvas, refused to be controlled. Using his wrestling ability and raw strength to fight off numerous fluidly applied joint-lock and choke attempts from Sakuraba, Jackson brought the fight back to standing where he mauled Sakuraba with a number of high elevation slams, at one point almost slamming Sakuraba out of the ring. Eventually Jackson became exhausted and succumbed to a rear naked choke from Sakuraba, but his exhilarating performance opened up the eyes of both the PRIDE's fan base and its executive office.
After besting pro-wrestler Alexander Otsuka in a fight for the Battlarts promotion, he was invited back for PRIDE 17, where Jackson scored a KO over Otsuka’s stable mate, Yuki Ishikawa. Jackson was disqualified for an accidental low blow in his next PRIDE appearance against Daijiro Matsui, but with a win in PRIDE 20 over Masaaki Satake he initiated a five-fight winning streak in high profile PRIDE contests which took him all the way to the finals of the 2003 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix at PRIDE Final Conflict 2003. In the semi finals, he dismantled UFC representative Chuck Liddell by TKO due to strikes at 3:10 of the second round before falling to Wanderlei Silva in the final round. He was one of three people to defeat Liddell in his prime, after Jeremy Horn and Randy Couture. It was this narrow loss to Wanderlei Silva that entrenched Jackson as a top fighter in the middleweight division.
He went on to defeat Ikuhisa Minowa and Ricardo Arona (becoming only the second fighter to defeat Arona, after Fedor Emelianenko) before suffering a second defeat to Wanderlei Silva in 2004. In this rematch the fighters went at each other as viciously as possible both slamming and repeatedly striking one another from the ground and standing. While Silva emerged the victor this brutal knockdown drag out affair cemented Jackson as an MMA force to be reckoned with. Months later he would win a surprise decision over Murilo Rua. After the decision, Jackson acknowledged that the decision had been a bad one, telling Rua and his corner that Rua deserved the win, even going as far as to offer the trophy to Rua as Rua left the ring. The controversial ending to this fight setup a fight between Jackson and Rua's younger brother, Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua at Pride's Total Elimination, the 1st round of the 2005 Middleweight tournament. Jackson lost to the younger Rua in the opening round after taking numerous knee strikes to the head and body, suffering broken ribs early in the fight.
In October 23, 2005, Jackson earned a technical knockout victory over Hirotaka Yokoi. Jackson won his next bout at PRIDE 31 in a unanimous decision victory over Judo specialist Dong Sik Yoon; this would be Jackson's last appearance with the company.
After PRIDE
After his last fight with PRIDE, his contract lapsed and he expressed interest in fighting in other organizations. On May 16, 2006, the World Fighting Alliance announced it had signed Jackson to a multi-fight deal. He defeated Matt Lindland by split decision at WFA: King of the Streets on July 22, 2006. "He is a good fighter," Rampage said. "I trained hard. He is an Olympic silver medalist. So much respect to him. I knew I had to bring it." The match turned out to be a tough one for the Memphis, Tenn., native who got caught in a choke hold twice. Rampage managed to get out both times and slammed Lindland a few times before cutting the bridge of his nose with a ground and pound on his way to the win.
UFC Career
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.
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.
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, on September 8, 2007 in London, England via unanimous decision to unify the two organizations' titles.
The Ultimate Fighter 7
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 fought 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 Sadollah 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. In contrast, Griffin pushed the pace of the fight from start to finish and stayed much more aggressive 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. Griffin was awarded a unanimous decision with the scores 46-48, 46-48 and 46-49 in what many considered an upset. After the fight both Griffin and his coach Randy Couture expressed that they thought the fight was close, and Rampage's coach, Juanito Ibarra, had planned to protest the unanimous decision with the Nevada State Athletic Commission. 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. Soon after the fight, Jackson fired his long time trainer/manager Ibarra. There were talks of an immediate rematch after the fight.
Move to Wolfslair
After Jackson lost his belt for Forrest Griffin he fired his long time trainer and manager and moved to Wolfslair MMA, located in England, where he trains with British MMA sensation Michael Bisping and french kickboxer Cheick Kongo.
The following is a quote from Jackson to MMAWeekly, regarding his recent move to Wolfslair:
"The managers and stuff over there are really good, and it's just really a good atmosphere. The guys work really hard. I needed a change in my training and how people trained me. I'm a Werewolf, and the name of the gym is Wolfslair. You do the math."
Wanderlei
Jackson's first fight since the loss of his belt and his arrest was against Wanderlei Silva at UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008 on December 27, 2008. The two had met in PRIDE twice before, with Wanderlei knocking Jackon out on both occasions. Many expected Jackson to go down in the same fashion as he had in the previous fights, but Jackson shocked the world when he knocked the "Axe Murderer" out cold at 3:21 in the first round with a devastating punch.
Many expect that since he decisively beat a top-notch Light Heavyweight in Silva, and since he lost a close decicsion to lose his title, that he would most likely be granted the next title shot agsint Rashad Evans, who became the undisputed Light Heavyweight champion at the same event.
Personal Life
A well known fact 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.'"
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.
Jackson starred in the film Confessions of a Pit Fighter. 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 also appeared on an episode of Jackass giving Ryan Dunn tips on fighting.
Arrest
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. The day before his arrest, Jackson gave an interview and said he had become depressed after his recent loss by decision to Forrest Griffin. 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. 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.
A woman involved in one of the hits and run crashes with Quinton Jackson has miscarried her baby. Her name is Holly Griggs and she's 38 years old. As of yet she hasn't officially filed any action against Jackson.
Quinton Jackson has been charged with 1 felony count of evading police while driving recklessly, 1 felony count of evading police and driving against traffic, 3 misdemeanor counts of hit and run with property damage, and 1 misdemeanor count of reckless driving when he nearly hit several pedestrians. If convicted, Jackson could face up to 3 years in prison.
On August 28, 2008 Jackson pleaded not guilty to the above 2 felonies and 3 misdemeanors. His next court appearance is currently scheduled for November 3, 2008.
Titles Held and Accomplishments
- UFC Light Heavyweight Champion (Former)
- Unified UFC Light Heavyweight & Pride FC Middleweight Championships
