UFC veteran Rampage Jackson said he wants to return for a couple more bouts before completely retiring.
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson was an entertaining athlete in and out of the arena. The former UFC light heavyweight champion always pulled up a savage joke and was a knockout artist.
After leaving the UFC in 2015, he competed in rival promotion, Bellator MMA. He had his last MMA bout in 2019 when he faced Fedor Emelianenko where lost via first-round knockout.
The 44-year-old hasn’t competed since then but insisted on returning. He claimed that he is able to do a couple more matches despite his age. Jackson said it’s likely won’t be mixed martial arts matches, but rather something like exhibition matches.
During a recent interview with No Jumper, Jackson listed several names, such as Wanderlei Silva, Marvin Eastman, Darrill Schoonover.
“I’d like to do some grudge matches, since I’m old and stuff. There’s a couple guys I owe some *ss-kickings to. For one, Wanderlei (Silva).”
” Then Marvin Eastman, I owe him a rubber match. We’re 1-1. And a guy from TUF, Darrill Schoonover. The guy I gave the nickname ‘T*tties.’ He hates me.” Jackson said.
Darrill Schoonover and Rampage Jackson delivered an iconic moment back in 2009 in TUF season 10. Jackson constantly made fun of Schoonover and bullied him throughout the season. But, Jackson insisted it’s not the kind of bullying like people think about.
“And I feel kinda bad, because the young kids think it’s bullying when you make fun of somebody. When I grew up, bullying was when you beat the sh*t out of someone and took their lunch money or something like that.”
“But now bullying is when you make fun of somebody’s shoes. And so people … I called him ‘T*tties.’ But he started the whole thing, he made fun of me. I was just funnier. I like to joke around.” Jackson said.
Darrill Schoonover was 10-0 before taking part in TUF. He eventually lost the TUF finale and suffered another 4 losses. His last appearance was in 2015 within Rocks Xtreme MMA.