Rampage: Rashad was punching my injured knee
Evans made it known that Jackson approached him in a night club and slapped him. Jackson vehemently denied this during…
Evans made it known that Jackson approached him in a night club and slapped him. Jackson vehemently denied this during an interview with MMA Fight Corner presented by FiveKnuckles.com.
“That’s a lie,” Jackson said. “I didn’t walk up to Rashad at all. I don’t never walk up to Rashad. I was in the club, enjoying my own self and he walked up to me. So I slapped him. I don’t walk up to Rashad.
“He wouldn’t rub me the wrong way if he wasn’t the one walk up to me in a night club, where I have to smack him. In a night club, most likely, I’d been drinking and that’s the worst time to get on my nerves.”
“If I’m in a night club and I’m kickin’ it with some girls and I’m on the dance floor, I’m just being a human being, don’t come bother me. Don’t come try and take a picture, don’t come ask me, don’t come challenge me and don’t say no B.S. to me. Like Rashad came up to me and told me ‘I fought Machida the same way he fought me.’ He come tell me stuff like that cuz he sour because I beat Machida and he got knocked the hell out by Machida. And he basically didn’t do anything against Machida, so he trying to get sour about that.”
“I would love to get a rematch with Rashad because I had a lot of stuff going on that I chose not to make excuses for. You know how the fans can be really vicious, I kept stuff to myself. Any person who really knows about fighting, just like “Shogun” (Mauricio Rua) was rusty in his last fight, you could tell when a fighter’s rusty and a fighter’s fresh. I was also nursing an injury but I chose not to pull out of the fight because the fight was so anticipated. So I decided to fight him anyway. I felt like I didn’t have a good showing and he didn’t really even do a good job of fighting me. So I felt the fans really lost in that fight.
“He knows the only reason he beat me is because I was rusty and I was injured. If you go back and watch that fight he was punching me in my knee, my knee that was hurt. I never seen anybody punch anyone in the knee in MMA in all the years I been doing MMA. But somehow he knew my knee was injured.”
“I wanted to rematch him and just put on a good show, an exciting fight. I don’t care if I win or lose. But for some reason the UFC feels like the fans don’t want to see a rematch.”
“People like Rashad and Queen Mo, I just look at them like they little boys.
“I’m an old man on the porch in my rocking chair and I see two little boys playing for my attention in the front yard. That’s how I look at those two guys. I don’t pay them no never mind at all.”
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