Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson appeared recently on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, and discussed his fight tonight with Olympic gold medalist Judoka Olympic gold medalist Satoshi Ishii at Bellator 157.
“Honestly, I didn’t really know much about him because I don’t really watch a lot of fights,” said Jackson , as transcribed by Danny Segura for MMA Fighting. “I didn’t know anything about him, but then I heard he’s a southpaw and a judo guy, and I was like, ‘ah, hell.’ This is going to be a good test for me because, to be honest, I don’t do well against southpaws. And judo is kind of awkward for MMA, that’s why Ronda Rousey was smashing girls so bad, so quickly. Because somebody that can do judo efficiently in MMA, can be very dangerous if you don’t know how to handle it.”
If Rampage gets by Ishii as expected, who is next?
“I haven’t really thought about it,” said Jackson. “But I’m thinking about maybe fighting heavyweight or something like that. I’m not going to lie, I’m too old to be cutting weight. I’m over all the cutting weight s***.”
“Fedor is back. He’s always been one of my favorites, and I really love his fighting style. That would be a great fight to put me in as well, but you know, Fedor and I are friends, we don’t talk to each other cause we speak different languages. But at the end of the day, like I said, my job is to fight. So if that fight comes up, I would happily take it.”
“I’m sure Matt Mitrione’s ugly ass wants to see that fight happen too. I’m not opposed to it, but I don’t want to fight two southpaws back to back. Like I said, I f***ing hate to fight southpaws because it’s hard to find sparring partners and stuff, but hey, at the end of the day it’s my job to fight, and I’ll fight anybody.”
One anybody is another TUF 10 castmember recently signed by Bellator – Darrill Schoonover. Rampage calls him “Titties.”
“I don’t turn down fights, but i really want to fight Titties. I have no beef with Mitrione, I had beef with Titties. I’ve really been trying to fight Titties, but Bellator doesn’t want to see it for some reason. I don’t understand why not. Titties needs to get these hands all up in his face. I told Titties, if I win, I’m going to motorboat him. And I ain’t lying.”
“Because Titties keeps talking s***, and he’s still on my Twitter talking s***. I’m a fighter, so if another fighter is talking s*** to me and s*** like that, I’m going to fight him. I don’t have to fight him in Bellator, I can go to his house, you know what I’m saying. I get paid to fight, so I want to be civil, so I can get your fat ass in the cage and let’s fight. Now, talk about a thing from TUF 10, that’s who I had the beef with. It was Titties not Mitrione, but I’ll fight Mitrione. But I’m going to tell you who I really want, I want to shut Titties’ ass up.”
