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RayOmac
07-09-2009, 11:52
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Putting the pieces of the puzzle together on UFC & Rampage Jackson

By Zach Arnold | September 4, 2009

When reports surfaced that BJ Penn vs. Diego Sanchez was being moved to the Memphis event on December 12th, there was chatter that somehow this meant that UFC couldn’t get a network TV deal once again.

But what if the matchmaking move dealt with something far more serious?

You’ve seen the reports now claiming that Quinton “Rampage” Jackson will be filming the A-Team movie instead of fighting in front of home town fans against Rashad Evans on 12/12 in Memphis. If the reports are true, then Dana White’s frustration and anger in Portland over Rampage wanting to film the movie is completely and totally justified.

Since his arrival in UFC, something hasn’t totally clicked between Rampage and Zuffa. While Jackson has had some success, he hasn’t become that mega-superstar we were expecting. Chuck Liddell, Brock Lesnar, and Georges St. Pierre are all more popular than Jackson. The one upside for Jackson in filming the A-Team movie is that his name value will increase in the eyes of the general public. But that’s the only upside.

There are a lot of major downsides to this move. As a fight promoter, Dana White has invested a lot of time, energy, and money in pushing Jackson. I’ve criticized Zuffa’s tenacity in their push of Jackson on this site in the past, but I also recognize that this Fall was going to be the biggest push UFC was going to give Jackson yet. They set up their reality show around him fighting Rashad Evans and threw Kimbo Slice into the mix. The fight between the two men was set up perfectly for a ‘homecoming’ of sorts for Rampage in Memphis at the FedEx Forum, which is significantly bigger than the late Mid South Coliseum that Jackson used to watch wrestling taped at. If Rampage ends up picking the movie over UFC 107 in Memphis, it will be a move that costs him a lot. He will in essence be burning UFC by doing this, he will have wasted the time of a lot of people including Rashad Evans (who needs to bounce back after the Machida loss), and it will be a loss in terms of a fight with an opponent he can beat.

Steve Cofield asks why UFC is still going to Memphis if Rampage won’t fight on the card. The answer for this question is easy - it’s Memphis. Memphis is a town with a tremendous history for pro-wrestling and fighting. The crowd will be super-heated and will be 100% supportive of UFC.

RayOmac
07-09-2009, 11:55
RAMPAGE OUT OF UFC 107

For the past few months MMA fans have highly anticipated the showdown between rivals Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Rashad Evans. The two recently completed filming for the upcoming season of “The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights” (which is set to debut on Spike TV on September 16) and were set to face off against one another at UFC 107 at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee on December 12. However, those plans have apparently changed.

According to The Vancouver Sun, Jackson has had to delay the fight with Evans due to scheduling conflicts between the UFC 107 card and Jackson’s role as “B.A. Baracus” in the upcoming “A-Team” movie, which is set to begin filming in Vancouver in a few weeks.

Due to the scheduling conflicts, “Rampage” will not be able to put in a full-time training camp in preparation for his bout with Evans and has apparently asked the UFC to move the fight back to early-2010. This could put the UFC’s light heavyweight division at a stand still. With UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida defending his title against Mauricio “Shogun” Rua at UFC 104 on October 24, the winner of the Evans/Jackson fight was expected to be named the #1 contender. If the UFC still expects to name the winner of that fight the #1 contender, that could mean the winner of the Machida/Rua fight may face a lay off of up to more than six months.

With the Evans/Jackson fight being postponed, it is now expected that UFC 107 will be headlined by a UFC lightweight title fight featuring BJ Penn defending his title against Diego Sanchez as well as Frank Mir squaring off against Cheick Kongo in a highly anticipated heavyweight battl, although nothing has been made official at this time.

Biiyen
07-09-2009, 16:44
Ik denk dat Dana nu gewoon Rashad tegen iemand anders matched en Jackson nu op de bank zet tot ergens halverwege volgend jaar. En een titelshot krijgt hij nu al helemaal niet meer. Dat is Dana, let maar op.

wrestler_nl
07-09-2009, 16:48
Nu Rampage niet vecht op ufc 107, zou ik couture vs rashad wel willen zien! lijkt me een prima match up

dirk5
07-09-2009, 16:49
zal voorlopig geen TUF coaches battle worden dus.... jammer!

De man van 14K
07-09-2009, 16:56
zeker jammer, had erg tof geweest.. Ik zie rampage nog steeds liever als een vechter dan als acteur..

FOCUS
07-09-2009, 16:59
Rampage vs Decker is ook leuk jongens:lol:

TheHagueBoxer
07-09-2009, 17:46
eigen schuld van de UFC, moeten ze de vechters maar meer betalen. Je zal niet snel meemaken dat tiger woods of floyd mayweather een wedstrijd cancellen om de acteur uit te hangen.

maar volgens mij heeft quinton niet meer zulke hoge ambities als vechter, ik bedoel als hij in begin 2010 pas weer gaat vechten heeft hij in 2 jaar maar 3x gevochten

Pepe the Ice-Murderer
07-09-2009, 18:47
eigen schuld van de UFC, moeten ze de vechters maar meer betalen. Je zal niet snel meemaken dat tiger woods of floyd mayweather een wedstrijd cancellen om de acteur uit te hangen.

maar volgens mij heeft quinton niet meer zulke hoge ambities als vechter, ik bedoel als hij in begin 2010 pas weer gaat vechten heeft hij in 2 jaar maar 3x gevochten

Meer betalen?? Al eens gezien met wat voor auto's die gasten rondrijden? Ik werk ook dik 10 uur per dag, soms nachten door, soms weken of maanden weg van huis om te gaan draaien, maar ik heb gvd geen dikke Ferrari's voor mn oprit staan!

Minder betalen zodat ze harder gemotiveerd worden om te trainen gvd! Neem een voorbeeld aan de Thai! De ring in voor 5 dollar en rellen maar! Fucking UFC kapitalisten

Sendur
07-09-2009, 19:29
Nu Rampage niet vecht op ufc 107, zou ik couture vs rashad wel willen zien! lijkt me een prima match up

Dit lijkt me ook wel een leuke match-up.

Een weer een goede challenge voor Couture!!