Rampage in legal fight to keep home

Older fighters losing their homes is a tragically common pattern in boxing. Mixed martial arts has largely been spared the pattern, with the Fedor Emelianenkos, Chuck Liddells, and Randy Coutures appearing to be stable financially.

Now Paul Gift reports for BE that Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson is in a legal battle for his home. He has filed a lawsuit in OC superior court, and it tells a strange story.

Jackson says he purchased the home in 2010 for a little over a million, in cash. To protect his privacy, Rampage alleges that his then manager, Howard Denis Joseph Gwynn, advised him to put Jazella as the titleholder of record. Gwynn is the director of the business entity Jazella.

The fighter alleges he tried to move to property to his name, but that on November 1, 2016, Jazella sold the property to the LLCs Breckenridge and Wedgewood. Jackson is suing all three for quiet title, unjust enrichment, and declaratory relief.

If you are curious about what the home looks like, Jackson opened up for the sports performance and athlete lifestyle media outlet Stack.

In addition to boxing producing champion who eventually lose their homes and often their minds, the sweet science is also notorious for managers who exploit their clients. That pattern too is far less present in MMA. An evidence-supported picture of what happened here should emerge in time, and judgment can be determined.