UFC legend Clinton “Rampage” Jackson would refuse a place in the UFC’s Hall of Fame if it was offered to him. He told The MMA Hour that he’d prefer a big paycheck to the accolade.
No, f*ck them. I don’t fight for no Hall of Fame. What do you get for being in the Hall of Fame? I say, ‘Honor me with a f*cking check.”
Rampage Jackson Rejects UFC Hall of Fame: “Honor me with a f*cking check”
Jackson continued, detailing his experience as a fighter in the embryonic days of MMA, the meager pay packets involved, and the pressures of fame in a niche sport.
“MMA fighters, we’re not like baseball players, we’re not like football players, we don’t get no pension or nothing like that. Those guys get in the Hall of Fame, they’ve got pensions and all that sh*t.
Honor me with a check. I got a lot of injuries and pain for making the UFC a lot of money and selling a lot of pay-per-views, selling a lot of tickets. What do I give a f*ck about being in the Hall of Fame? To be famous? I didn’t fight to be famous. “ For Rampage Jackson, that he enjoyed his life before fame.
“When I first started fighting in King of the Cage, back in the day, this sport was a baby. Nobody knew anything about this sport. I could walk around and enjoy my life and enjoy my dates and enjoy times with my kids out in public. I could enjoy being at the airport without people f*cking hounding me for pictures.
Why the f*ck I want to be famous with a bunch of dudes that want to buy me drinks? I love Rampage fans, but I don’t love being famous from dudes. I’ll be 100 percent – if there were a lot of chicks coming in the mix, too, then I wouldn’t be saying sh*t.”
Rampage Jackson was also irritated about the way he left the UFC, and the “shady” business practises that forced him out of the organization.
“I don’t know if I say this, I’ll get sued by the UFC, but all I can say is, after I did The A-Team, some organizations made it really hard for me to do other movies.
That’s all I can put out there. I can say I signed with one of the biggest agencies in Hollywood, and they didn’t do sh*t for me, and I felt like it was on purpose. Actually, I know it was on purpose because now they own UFC.”
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