Rampage Jackson Isn’t Sure About His UFC Status, Wants to Face Shogun Rua Again

Rampage Jackson discussed the status of his UFC contract now that he’s done with his Bellator obligations and more in a new interview with the MMA Hour. Highlights are below:

On his status now that he’s done with his Bellator contract: “It’s very confusing. It’s no secret that I was in a lawsuit with Bellator after I went back with the UFC to fight Fabio [Maldonado], so I had to go back to Bellator and fulfill a contract and that contract ran out. I still have an existing contract with the UFC, but things change. The UFC, they sold the company since all that, so I don’t know. I haven’t talked to Dana personally about it. My manager Tiki Ghosn has been talking to him, but I think the UFC is doing great things for the company. They’re in a good place. I just don’t know what’s going to happen for me.”

On a possible boxing match: “But now that Dana White is letting Conor McGregor box, I’ve always asked Dana to let me do some s**t like that. Hopefully, Uncle Dana, if you got ties with boxing now, let me try some of that s**t.”

On a rematch with Shogun Rua: “I would love to revenge my loss against ‘Shogun’ because that’s one loss that don’t sit well with me for personal reasons. I love ‘Shogun’ as a person, we get along great, but as a fighter I never should have taken that fight with my injury. I regret not backing out of that fight, I do. I was dumb back then. I was making cash money and I was just blowing through it, and I was living fight to fight. It was that street life. I fight injured a lot and sometimes you win, sometimes you don’t, but that fight I should have said, ‘Naw, naw, let me heal up.’”

On his future: “I think I got three good fights in me, then after that then I’ll see if I have three more good fights in me. I really would like to fight because in MMA, I feel like fighters can get old overnight. I’m 39 years old, I put 17 good years into this sport and my body has taken a toll. I think that I know how to train with injuries and stuff like that, and I’m training smarter. I still have enough juices and energy to entertain the fans, I love entertaining the fans…My whole career I never dealt with the managerial s**t. I just like train and fight, f**k, play video games, play with my toys, play with my kids, that’s my life.”