Quinton “Rampage” Jackson didn’t respect Anthony Smith’s criticism of how he handles his podcast enterprise.
On a current episode of Jackson’s JAXXON present, Jackson had fellow former UFC champion T.J. Dillashaw on and one of many matters they mentioned was the untapped potential of Kevin Holland. Dillashaw criticized Holland for an absence of self-discipline, guaranteeing that the two-division competitor “won’t ever be a champion.”
Smith, one other UFC title also-ran, caught a stray through the dialog, and he reacted to the JAXXON phase on his personal podcast On Paper. What began as a critique of Jackson just lately internet hosting controversial UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell (in an episode that has since been faraway from the JAXXON YouTube web page), spilled over into Smith claiming Jackson and his co-host Bear Degidio are too disrespectful to the fighters which might be additionally their potential company.
“You carry fighters on, you shit on them—It occurred to me,” Smith stated. “You introduced me on, you’re tremendous cool to me. I had fun. I really like Rampage, he’s my favourite fighter, I’ve stated that for years. You’ve heard me say {that a} hundred instances, Rampage is my favourite fighter. You carry me on I’ve a tremendous time and several other months later you’re on there with Dillashaw f*cking making enjoyable of me. That’s what they do, that’s their factor. Truthfully, it’s much less Rampage, he’s simply form of the humorous ha ha man, and he simply laughs about stuff.
“They’re simply not nice to fighters, they make enjoyable of lots of people. They did the identical sh*t to Ian Garry when he was imagined to go on the present after which they spent the present earlier than that calling him a cuck. Whether or not you assume Ian Garry’s a cuck or not, you’ll be able to’t carry the motherf*cker on the present the following episode after calling him a cuck and making enjoyable of his household dynamic or him and his spouse and his children… I don’t agree with that.”
Smith’s response made its strategy to Jackson, who used his personal YouTube channel to fireplace again with a profanity-laced tirade and threaten to struggle Smith the following time he sees him.
“I really like doing this podcast, this podcast received me again into MMA, and I’ve met a whole lot of fighters since I began doing this f*cking podcast and I’ve all the time stayed away from the fighters as a result of I’m completely different from y’all and this can be a motherf*cking downside proper right here, me being completely different from y’all,” Jackson stated. “I noticed this f*cking publish that Anthony Smith did, I noticed it this morning, f*cking pissed me off. When T.J. sat proper motherf*cking right here and stated you’ll by no means be champion and stated that you simply f*cking gave up, Bear and I f*cking had your again and that’s why we had been saying, ‘Lionheart,’ with a f*cking nickname like Lionheart? Not ‘Mendacity Coronary heart.’”
“And also you took it as Bear and I had been making enjoyable of you. Bear and I truly preferred your bitch ass, however now you’re a motherf*cking bitch as a result of at first I didn’t say shit as a result of I DM’d you. I checked out it, I may see how may assume that I used to be making enjoyable of him, too, so I DM’d you. I f*cking stated to you within the DM, ‘Look right here, I wasn’t making enjoyable of you.’ As a result of I may have made enjoyable of you. Fighters, we make enjoyable of one another. Yeah, I’m a comic pretending to be a motherf*cking fighter, however the issue is motherf*cker I actually can struggle. I hope I come down after I see you, as a result of motherf*ckers such as you get bitch-smacked for actual. You probably did some bitch shit, you left me on learn in your f*cking DMs after I tried to f*cking clarify to you I wasn’t making enjoyable of your bitch ass.”
Rampage went on to say that he may have made enjoyable of Smith’s December 2023 knockout loss to Khalil Rountree, however didn’t as a result of his personal profession resulted in 2019 with a brutal TKO loss to Fedor Emelianenko. However he raised the instance to elucidate his perception that fighters making enjoyable of one another is truthful recreation.
He went on to additional defend Dillashaw’s feedback about Holland and Smith.
“I’m telling y’all bitch-ass motherf*ckers, soft-ass motherf*ckers on the market, y’all want to relax the f*ck out and stop being little bitches,” Jackson stated. “Yeah, T.J. shouldn’t say no person shouldn’t be a f*cking champion, however that’s T.J and I respect him for that. He’s standing on enterprise. He’s one of many best to ever do it in his motherf*cking weight class. A few of you guys are simply bitches.”
The above clip ends with a heated Jackson storming off, whereas muttering that there could possibly be a bodily confrontation with Smith ought to they cross paths within the close to future.
“This shit received me pissed off. I’m going to let you know, inform that Anthony Smith motherf*cker, name that motherf*cker up, inform him to maintain my motherf*cking identify out of his motherf*cking mouth. I see his bitch ass I’m going to smack the f*ck out of him.”
