Douglas Mallow is the professional wrestler who intervened to stop Raja Jackson’s vicious assault on Stuart “Syko Stu” Smith. He remains baffled that no arrests have been made weeks after the incident. Mallow recently expressed his frustration with the lack of legal consequences for what he witnessed firsthand.
“I can tell you I talked to a detective yesterday,” Mallow revealed in a recent interview. “It’s absolutely insane. I can tell you I talked to a detective yesterday. I sent in the medical stuff for my eye, a couple other things. I guess maybe it’s because it’s Los Angeles and you know they have to make everything political. You know, morals don’t matter. Right and wrong don’t matter. It’s all about the optics.”
Mallow described the moment he realized he needed to act: “It was a state of shock kind of in disbelief at first, but then it’s like it’s time to stop thinking and just go.” What he witnessed was an unconscious Stuart Smith being beaten by Raja Jackson, an MMA competitor who had been brought into the professional wrestling show as a spectator.
The incident began earlier that day when Smith hit Jackson with an empty beer can during what appeared to be backstage filming. While Mallow acknowledges this wasn’t appropriate behavior, he emphasizes the disproportionate response: “If someone hit me with a beer can like that, I punched him right in the mouth. On the spot. But he was unconscious before he even started punching him. He was not in any imminent danger.”
According to Mallow, the situation escalated when a controversial figure known only as “cowboy hat” – identified as Andre Joel Hudson – allegedly encouraged Jackson to “get his receipt” and “tag his a*s.” Mallow explained that while this language might mean something different in professional wrestling, to an MMA fighter it could be interpreted as permission for real violence.
“You have an outsider who’s an MMA fighter who’s trying to follow with people that hurt people,” Mallow said. “So you told him to hit this guy full board and if anyone does anything, you’ll back him up. So now you just said it’s us versus them. And then when it came down to it, where the hell was he?”
During the assault, Jackson turned his aggression toward Mallow when he intervened. “He actually got good because I wasn’t expecting a shot then he was trying to get like a back crank. I had the under hooks in. I was able to turn him and then he moved that position. It was awkward because it wasn’t like a sanctioned fight. I bit him in the trap so he couldn’t get any more leverage. I was just trying to get compliance out of him.”
Mallow criticized the decision to allow Jackson, an untrained professional wrestling performer, into the ring at all. “It’s up to the people holding the show, but you got to know how to take the falls. You got to know how to give the shots without hurting somebody too much. You don’t let somebody that’s inexperienced go in there and do something because that’s how people get hurt.”
Despite multiple 911 calls and police responding to the scene with crime scene tape and witness statements, Jackson remains free. “Multiple people called the cops. Squad cars came to the event. They set up crime scene tape. They took statements from people. Everything,” Mallow confirmed.
The lack of arrests has left Mallow questioning the justice system: “We live in a world of stupidity now nowadays. I am at a loss for words with the amount of stupid from the political parties in California and Los Angeles area. I think any other city that this would be already being processed.”
Stuart Smith has since returned home and is recoverin. According to Mallow, when Smith learned what happened to him, “he laughed and said, ‘Oh, it’ll take more than that to kill me.'”
Mallow believes Jackson’s actions warranted serious criminal charges: “The man needs to do hard jail time. No doubt about it. It was attempted murder, assault, attack, battery, whatever you want to say. It was brutal. It was vicious.” He worries that without consequences, Jackson might attempt to claim the attack was part of the show’s entertainment value.
