White hits out at Rampage Jackson

UFC president Dana White has hit out at Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson’s decision to quit the UFC.

White has branded the mixed martial arts star ‘a baby’, after the former light-heavyweight champion decided to call time on his fighting career.

Rampage had to pull out of his UFC 107 clash with Rashad Evans in order to play BA Baracus in the forthcoming A-Team movie and has now decided to pursue acting full-time.

White said: “Believe me, if you think this is the first time I have dealt with people who think they want to become actors and they are going to make millions and millions off making movies and acting, [its not].

“Because I got so p***** off with him pulling out of the fight with Rashad, I am speaking my mind — he thinks I am trying to ruin his career.

“Rampage is a grown man. He is acting like a baby right now but he is a grown man.

“If he wants to be in the movie business, Rampage, good luck to you man.

“I hope you make it big, and I am not being sarcastic, because Rampage Jackson is a guy that I actually like and Rampage Jackson is a guy that I know doesn’t always make the best decisions.

“I hope the movie thing works out for him, if that is what he truly wants to do and what he thinks his career is, I wish him all the luck in the world. I like Rampage, I have no ill will towards him whatsoever.

“He has decided to walk away from guaranteed good money right now — money he will never have the opportunity to make for the rest of his life, because he wants to make movies.”

White added: “All he has been telling me since he got in the UFC is he wants to fight in Memphis, which is his home town.

“We make the fight in Memphis and he pulls out because he wants to do a movie instead, because it has so much sentimental value to him.

“Come on man, he is a fighter, that is what he does for a living! Now I am going through all this crap again, another fighter going ‘You know what, this isn’t what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to make movies, I want a movie career.’ Like I haven’t seen this before!”

Tags: Dana White, Rashad Evans, UFC