Former UFC light heavyweight champion, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has revealed that he’s getting sick and tired of fighters coming to the octagon armed with a game plan to take him down and wrestle him for the entirety of the fight, explaining the sport will end up as boring as boxing if it continues to be like that.Speaking via this weeks edition of Inside MMA, Jackson said:
“Jon Jones is a tough guy and stuff like that, but I’m getting bored with these opponents, win or lose, I’m getting bored because these guys got these elaborate gameplans. They want to take me down and wrestle me because they think my ground is suspect. MMA, we evolve so fast, pretty soon we’re going to be like boxing if we keep fighting this way. Nobody is going to want to watch.”
“I’m coming for the belt and stuff like that but I’m still going to go out there and go gung ho and go for it and take chances. We fight in the cage, they lock the cage behind us, you know what I’m saying? I don’t care about us going to the ground, fights end up on the ground. But if this is one of those fights where it’s all I end up doing the whole time is defending takedowns, it makes me look bad as a fighter too.”
“I got fans talking about I haven’t knocked somebody out since Wanderlei [Silva]. It’s because Wanderlei come to fight, Chuck [Liddell] come to fight. These people come to fight; you know what I’m saying? I could have easily gotten knocked out by Chuck or Wanderlei, it’s a risk you take. But those guys, they gained my respect.”
Jackson’s route back to the title has been littered with long spells out due to injuries and movie roles but he has put together a handy two-fight winning streak against Lyoto Machida and Matt Hamill
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