Rampage: I know I can beat Jon Jones

Rampage told Ariel Helwani on " The MMA Hour"

"You know, in my last fight, I fought injured and had all those problems behind that. I said, I'm not going to risk that again. I said, I'll just pull out of this fight and come back strong. I want my next fight to be as close to 100 percent as possible and show the world what I can do. I just regret losing to a person like Ryan Bader. He sucks. He sucks. I'll say it to his face. He sucks. He talked all that trash on how he was going to knock me out. Obviously he knew I was injured because I didn't make weight. I talked to him man to man and said, 'Look, lets make it an exciting fight.' I knew there was a chance I was going to lose, but I don't want to lose a boring fight in Japan. He made the fight really boring. I got no respect for a guy like that. He sucks."
"Rampage" then discussed losing passion for the sport:

"I lost my love when I lost that Forrest fight. I know that I won that fight. Honestly, I wanted to cry racist stuff. I did want to do that. Us black folks, we're good at that. I know I took the fight lightly. I was like, 'Oh, Forrest.' I didn't train my hardest, I was coming off that Dan Henderson fight and I had just a little injury on my knuckle so I didn't keep up training. It was like, 'Oh Forrest, I'll just knock this guy out. After the fact, I didn't react the way people thought I would. I accepted the defeat. I knew that I won the fight, but said, 'he kicked my butt.' I held my head up high, and I walked out because I didn't want to act the fool. People don't know that when I went back home to Memphis,I'm from the south, a lot of white people were coming up to me saying derogatory stuff. There was some racist shit they were saying. It shows your true colors."

After his final fight with the UFC, Jackson says he will have no issues fighting a promotion that will pay him what he feels he deserves:

"Me being a free agent is looking very promising right now. I'm not in a rush. I'm not saying the UFC paid me like a slouch. Honestly the UFC pays me pretty good, I have to admit. I'm not a greedy person. I'm happy with it but like I was saying, it's not worth it for the stuff I have to go through with privacy issues. I'm still going to have that elsewhere, but elsewhere is offering me more money."

The former 205-pound champion also gave his thoughts on this past weekend's (Sept. 22, 2012) title fight UFC 152 between current champion Jon Jones and Vitor Belfort. Jackson talks about the lack of "honor" Jones showed in the bout against Belfort, by kicking him repeatedly in the knees, a move that is not illegal in MMA:

"Vitor took the fight on short notice, and this is how you respect him, by kicking his knee backwards and stuff like that? He's supposed to be a man of God. You can injure somebody, you can sever their career. You can mess people up for life kicking their knee back like that and he does it repeatedly, over and over. To me that has no honor. I take a lot of honor in fighting. He has no honor. He's fake. I don't agree with his fighting style. I think I coan beat Jon Jones. I know I can beat him. Jon Jones is the type of guy you have to fight twice."

Jackson also talked about his current relationship with UFC president, Dana White:

"Dana's a cool guy, I'm telling you, but he's looking out for his brand but what I think they don't understand is that I'm looking out for my brand. After I retire, the UFC is still going to be there. The UFC is going to make money and the UFC will still be going strong after I retire, but after I retire, I have to find other ways to make money. I have to find other ways to put my kids through school, put my son through private school. I have to find other ways to make it rain in the club, but UFC's still going to be going strong."