Comments on: Rampage Jackson: “I’ve lost respect for Forrest Griffin as a man.”

By: Rampage vs Forrest 2

Rampage vs Forrest 2 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:53:49 +0000

I would love to see a Rampage vs Forrest #2 and would love to see Rampage KO Forrest…

Forrest seems like a nice guy, but I can NOT stand his excessive leg kicks and his cheesy / evasive fighting style. Yah, I know some of you who have a huge mancrush on Forrest are going to be angry, but I loved it when guys like Keith Jardine and Rashad Evans did some serious G&P and KO’d Forrest. Forrest reminds me a little of Machida. Machida is another annoying/boring fighter and I can’t wait to see Machida get KO’d. Both Forrest and Machida should wear skirts when they fight!!

By: darkmetal

darkmetal — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:23:24 +0000

These statements just don’t make any sense. First of all, after Rampage lost the title to Forrest, he got into all the legal entanglements that resulted from his truck driving “rampage”, and some considered that he might never fight again. Would this have been the time to have Forrest call him out? Seriously.

Further, Forrest doesn’t make the matches, he simply takes the matches. Perhaps he can tell Dana White et. al. he would like to fight Rampage again, but if they say “No, you’ll fight fighter X first” then that’s is who he will be fighting, case closed.

I like Rampage, but these statements really don’t make any sense to me.

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:42:49 +0000

Rampage lost respect for forest as a man? what a nut! I wonder if forest lost any respect for him when he saw how he portrayed UFC fighters all over the news when he threw a tantrum! Fights are won and lost, suck it up! Of course Page wants a rematch! There’s way too much good competition at 205 to be handing out rematches! especially with title holders! I hope for Rampage’s sake that article was takin out of context….It makes him look like a sore loser…

By: TheSomberlain

TheSomberlain — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:26:18 +0000

Best 205er? GIVE ME A BREAK, hes basically a black Ortiz, all power, NO TECHNIQUE. You know which fight I would really like to see other than Shogun making his face into hamburger meat? the Wand knocking his face into hamburger meat. But knowing Rampage hed just drop his team, blame it on something and keep running that mouth of his, which has NO RIGHT. Oh and crash into 20 cars. With Dana White whiping his ass. UFC is so biased its disgusting man, I miss PRIDE

By: DamonO

DamonO — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:29:47 +0000

Oh and even more respect would be lossed to Quinton after the stunt he pulled with his mad truck driving skills. He needs to get over himself. I’ve lost more respect for Quinton as a man for what he has done in comparison to Forrest not saying there should be an immediate rematch. Think of what you’re saying Quinton Rampage Jackson.

By: DamonO

DamonO — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:24:22 +0000

Rampage needs to let it go. If the UFC wants them to rematch the UFC will have it that way. This is why you never let a fight go to decision. I like Rampage but he said that if their fight went to decision then he would give Forrest his winnings. Guaranteed that enver happened. If I were Forrest I would immediately lose respect to Rampage if he didn’t pay me after that comment.

By: j mac

j mac — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:09:50 +0000

rampage should never say anything about forrest he has to many fanboys and he will get buried for any statement he makes the way i see forrest should rematch qrj but then again i am the minority in more ways then one lol and thats probably why i give page more of a chance

By: ihateemo

ihateemo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:42:20 +0000

The other side of the “gotta beat the champ” argument is that maybe the champ should have beat the challenger? Rampage had a golden opportunity to finish Griffin and couldn’t; the fight could have gone either way but Griffin deserved it.

To say that he’s “lost respect for Griffin” is just asinine. Griffin hasn’t been beating the drum for anyone as of late; he’s been so low key since he won the strap I’m wondering where he is!

IMO, Griffin should give the next shot to Machida. Rampage can rack up a couple more wins before he gets his rematch for all I care – the LHW division was on hold for too long because of Rampage and Griffin’s injuries and the filming of TUF, so I’d like to see it move on with new blood in line for the belt.

By: B-Rad

B-Rad — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:55:17 +0000

The old addage that you have to beat the champion to win the belt is stupid. So if Forrest Griffin won in points by the end of the fight, they’re gonna tell him that he may have won more points (which means he was the agressor in the fight and basically outclassed Rampage), he didn’t knock him out or tap him so he’s not champion? Please…nobody questioned it when Randy Couture didn’t finish Tim Sylvia.

And I seem to remember in the post fight interview…”Even though I don’t really want to because he hits so hard, I think we need to do it again…” -Forrest Griffin

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:23:22 +0000

Rampage needs to take time off & let his legal troubles settle down before commenting & coming back. This is just more proof of it. Listen to UFC’s PR department Rampage.

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:57:32 +0000

To be the champ you need to beat the champ I never thought that Forest beat him. He did win some rounds but if its close you need to retain. If it wasnt for all the TUF stuff Forest would have never won or been given that title shot. In my option Rampage is the best 205 pounder in the world and has beaten top level guys is a dominate fasion and should not have been put in this situation in the first place. If he fights Wandi first and loses he wont get another title shot until he wins 3 in a row and that’s bullshit.

By: Stickney

Stickney — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:09:14 +0000

BA BA WAH WAH!!!!!!!!! suck it up you lost do your talking in the ring. Cry baby

By: ctownhood

ctownhood — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:00:17 +0000

Rampage lost the fight, plain and simple. He was dominated by Wandy Silva twice, and calls him a chump. He goes on a driving rampage (pun intended), causes some lady to lose her baby, and then says it’s not his fault. He fires Ibarra, who helped his career along immensely. Talk about losing respect for someone as a person…….

By: Levi M

Levi M — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:58:41 +0000

How can this guy talk about respecting this guy as a man when he can’t even keep his own shit together? This guy is going to go 0-2 if he fights Shogun…then how many miscarriages is he going to cause? After that the closest fight he will get to a forrest is trying to put up his tent in Big Bear because he’s lost everything.

By: Guy Gaduois

Guy Gaduois — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:56:20 +0000

I agree with Michael at 8:24. And the last several posters. Mr. Jackson, you should probably not say a whole lot of anything right now. Because the question will arise – “When is he NOT “sick”? Is this at ‘at-will illness?”

Who’s managing Rampage right now? Any chance of getting him to go to a mountain retreat somewhere there isn’t any phones, cameras, microphones or electricity?
This man needs to either notch up to a whole new level of crazy and club baby seals with kittens or disappear for months and reappear feeding homeless rabbits in Guam or something. Popping up in Dana’s video blog and popping off in interviews like it’s business as usual isn’t a p.r. strategy anyone who wants to keep their day job employs.
It’s like calling your boss from the golf course when you call in sick and ask him if he’d use an 8 or a 9 from the 15th.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:24:26 +0000

If Page was smart he would stay out of the limelight. He shouldn’t be gallivanting after that accident, let alone calling out someone else for losing respect. They can say what they want, he was dehydrated or what not, but the fact of the matter is he broke the law and in doing so put himself and other people at great danger. That truck is the biggest thing on the road; he should count his blessings no one died.

I love Rampage, and hope all this gets resolved, but he broke the law…fighting should be the last thing on his mind. However i do dissagree with bashing Dana. He is standing by his friend, UFC pres be damn, page is his friend. I would hope all of you would do the same.

By: Jeff L

Jeff L — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:21:17 +0000

This from a guy who thinks he is Jesus and drives a truck with himself painted on the side to commit crimes. Whatever. Well, he can always go 0-2 in the HW division and then demand a superfight with Big Nog on the Superbowl show. I hear that’s a popular move these days.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:07:56 +0000

I seem to remember Forrest said in the ring to Joe Rogan, I guess we are gonna have to do it again. What had Forrest said since then? I have not heard him call out another UFC fighter. In fact, I have not heard or seen Forrest since the Rampage fight. Rampage must still be “sick”. But that won’t stop Dana from getting his pound of flesh. Stop the WWE madness, this is supposed to be a sport, not a side show.

By: jim smith

jim smith — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:31:26 +0000

Rampage is still crazy. It’s not Forrest’s job to give Rampage a rematch, it’s up to Page to EARN it.

And Dana is a two faced prick. If tim sylvia, Arlovski or Ortiz did the same driving ans Rampage, he would be out for blood

By: DocWagner

DocWagner — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:43:45 +0000

Here’s what QJ should be saying “I’ve lost all respect for MYSELF as a man…I’ve caused harm to those who do not deserve it and I have lost the trust of my fans…I need to get myself together before I even THINK of entering the cage again”

That is what he SHOULD have said.