Rampage leaving UFC after contract is finished!

 by:Michael A  | Source: FanMMA.com

Throughout the years Rampage has had his with Dana White and the UFC.   If he’s not humping reporters, or anything else that moves for that matter.  He’s talking trash to his opponent while never forgetting to thank the fans.  The latest headlines about Rampage Jackson are focused on him wanting to leave mixed martial arts top promotion, the UFC.

WHAT?! Is the first thing that comes to mind.  It seems that Rampage is tired of Joe Silva matching him up against what he feels to be “Boring fighters”.  Rampage also claims he hasn’t been fighting at a 100% for a couple of years, saying he’s never had time to properly heal.  He wanted the last fight on his contract to be a rematch with Shogun!  Although that would have been AMAZING,  the fight sidelined by Rampage getting surgery on his knee….finally.  So he will be out for around another 9months.   Rampage was recently on HDNET’s “Inside MMA”, here where some of his thoughts.

“After I leave the UFC, I’m done with them! Just like when I left PRIDE. You remember when I left PRIDE? It’s over. I was very loyal to PRIDE. I fought for PRIDE, and I fought the way I fought to put butts in seats. I took risks, slammed people and stuff like that. PRIDE did a good job. They built me up. I wasn’t that good when I first came out. I fought Sakuraba and they built me up and then threw me in some tough fights. That’s the way you’re supposed to do it. Now, the UFC, I was a better fighter when I came there. My second fight, they throw me to Chuck Liddell. The fans didn’t know who I was. I knocked him out, the fans booed me. That changed me, who I am towards the fans. I used to be the nicest guy towards fans. My first time getting booed. How are you gonna boo somebody for knocking somebody out? But I got a whole other opinion on that. And now, the UFC’s just throwing me all these boring fighters, these game planners, these wrestlers. I’m the type of fighter who you should match up with people who want to fight excitingly. You know what I’m saying? Cuz I’m gonna be the type of fighter who puts butts in seats.”

also…

“I would love to fight somebody like Shogun. Somebody like Forrest. Somebody who beat me before. Somebody who wants to put on a good fight. I’m tired of fighting these guys who are cowards. I call them cowards. They just run around the cage, they game plan and they take you down. It’s okay to take people down, but they just hump you and lay down on top of you the whole time. That’s what’s disgusting to me.”

I can understand that he would rather fight someone that was going to BANG the whole time.  But lets get real, MMA has changed.  There are more disciplines, and the fighters have evolved.  We would ALL rather see a stand up brawl, but the fact is people are going to win fights wherever they can.