Quinton “Rampage” Jackson reveals PRIDE tournaments were fixed

Former UFC light heavyweight champion, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has revealed that the PRIDE Grand Prix tournaments were actually fixed, saying that names were not draw out of a hat and that referee’s would stand you up for no apparent reason.

Speaking via Fighters Only Magazine, Jackson said:

“The UFC treats me better than Pride. I don't know what their [PRIDE] problem was but they wouldn't promote me at all, they cheated me out of money from dolls and t-shirts, not paying me... when my contract was up and we were negotiating and I wanted more money and they were telling me ‘oh, but you're a nobody.' This was after I had fought in the Grand Prix and beat Igor Vovchanchyn.”

“Even after I went to that K-1 fight and represented them in K-1, they were mad I won that K-1 fight! Just stuff like that... Igor Vovchanchyn, I got two weeks notice [for the fight]. Ninja, two weeks notice. It was bad. The tournaments were fixed. They said they drew numbers from a hat. It was all set up for Wanderlei to win. It was really bad. Even in some fights they would stand you up when you were winning, different stuff like that.”

Jackson has recently had a gripe with his current employer’s, the UFC, although it appears all issues have been settled and it’s business as normal ahead of a return to the octagon in May against bitter rival, Rashad Evans. Stay tuned to MMABay for extensive coverage of Jackson’s preparations in the build-up to the fight, a fight that could end up the most watched in UFC history.

By Michael Pepper. (Follow me on Twitter)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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