Rampage Talks Fighting Tito Ortiz: It’ll Suck To Knock My Friend Out
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is fresh off a win over Satoshi Ishii at Bellator: Dynamite 2 by split decision following a long layoff. After years of talk, a fight between Jackson and UFC Hall of Famer/Bellator star Tito Ortiz appears to be in the works.
“‘King Mo’ wants me to fight my boy Tito,” Jackson said at the post-fight press conference. “He must really not like Tito. King Mo told me that if I fight Tito, then he’ll fight Ishii, because I think that’ll be a good fight, King Mo vs. Ishii. Because they both fight the same. Just sayin’.”
Jackson was supposed to face Ortiz in both of their Bellator debuts back in 2013. However, Ortiz got hurt and the fight never happened.
“Tito, we were supposed to fight,” Jackson said. “I really didn’t want to fight him then, but it’s my job to fight. If Tito wants to fight, I think we’ll come in and put on a good show. It’ll suck to knock my friend out, but I gotta get a knockout. I gotta get a knockout. I’ve gotta knock somebody out. I’ve gotta knock somebody out. If Tito gets in the cage with me, you know I’m gonna try to knock him out. It would suck to beat up one of my friends, but if Tito wants to do it, then we can do it. If not, I ain’t gonna cry.”
Jackson (37-11) is currently on a five fight winning streak. In his last six bouts, he’s 5-1. Ortiz (18-11) is currently on a two fight winning streak. In his last six bouts, he’s 2-4.
“What you guys don’t know about me, not only did I not fight for a year, but I didn’t train for a year,” Jackson said. “All I did was play video games, man. I was so depressed, I’m not gonna lie. I was so depressed, man, I was just sitting at home playing video games and drinking beer. That’s all I did for a whole year. You can’t be a professional athlete doing stuff like that.”
It would make sense for Ortiz and Jackson to fight looking at their age and their status in the fight game but time will tell.
