Raja Jackson pleaded not responsible in courtroom on Thursday after he was hit with a felony battery cost and a misdemeanor battery cost for assaulting a professional wrestler at an occasion in Los Angeles this previous August.
After he was arrested in September and launched on $50,000 bail, Jackson—the son of former UFC mild heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jacskon—was again in courtroom for his arraignment after the Los Angeles District Legal professional’s workplace moved ahead with the prison grievance towards him. The 2 fees embody sentencing enhancement for allegedly inflicting “nice bodily harm,” which might add an additional three years to a jail sentence.
Based mostly on the fees, Jackson might doubtlessly face seven years in jail if convicted. The 25-year-old is due again in courtroom Nov. 24 for a preliminary listening to setting in his case.
Jackson, a professional fighter, was arrested in September after he assaulted Stuart Smith (ring title Syko Stu) throughout a Knokx Professional occasion in Los Angeles the place Jackson was scheduled to seem.
Your entire altercation unfolded after Jackson was scheduled to intrude in a match, however finally went off script when he picked Smith up into the air and slammed him again right down to the bottom. Jackson then proceeded to unleash greater than 20 punches, a lot of which landed after it appeared that Smith was already unconscious, earlier than different wrestlers had been lastly capable of drag him off.
Smith was admitted to a neighborhood hospital the place he spent a number of days in intensive care with members of the family later revealed he suffered trauma to each the higher and decrease jaws, a laceration to his higher lip, and a fracture to the maxilla bone, which resulted within the lack of a number of enamel from the assault.
Previous to the in-ring incident, Smith and Jackson had been engaged in a separate incident when Smith hit Jackson with a beer can prior, believing Jackson was one other professional wrestler concerned to assist hype the present. Video confirmed Smith later apologizing and the 2 shook palms.
Jackson was then seen on a reside stream saying he was going to get his revenge “for actual” after leaping into the ring for the deliberate showdown with Smith.
The vicious assault was captured on the reside stream, which led to an investigation by Los Angeles police earlier than Jackson was ultimately arrested and hit with the 2 separate fees.
Jackson has not publicly addressed the incident because it occurred. He now faces a possible jail sentence if convicted on all fees.
