{"id":236583,"date":"2023-09-22T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=236583"},"modified":"2023-09-22T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:02:58","slug":"im-an-mma-legend-and-former-ufc-champ-and-i-was-offered-1000-to-take-a-dive-in-one-of-my-fights-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/im-an-mma-legend-and-former-ufc-champ-and-i-was-offered-1000-to-take-a-dive-in-one-of-my-fights-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm an MMA legend and former UFC champ and I was offered $1000 to take a DIVE in one of my fights | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS legend Quinton Jackson has sensationally claimed he was offered $1000 to "take a dive" in his Pride debut.<\/p>\n
Jackson made his name competing in the now-defunct promotion in the early 2000s before eventually making his way to the UFC, where he became light-heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n
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In the years following the UFC's former parent company's acquisition of the Pride<\/span>, several former fighters have revealed wild tales from their time in the promotion.<\/p>\n Accusations of the promoters encouraging fighters to take performance-enhancing drugs<\/span> have been plenty, as well as claims the Yakuza were pulling the scenes.<\/p>\n Jackson was once a beloved figure by the promotion, who he claims once offered to pay him an extra $1000 for him to roll over in his debut against MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba.<\/p>\n While explaining his frustrations with his pay back in the day, 'Rampage' said on his Fade on Site podcast: "Back in Pride, them motherf*<\/strong>***s was making $200,000, $300,000 cash money and they was paying me $30,000, bro.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n "And I was like their biggest star from America besides Kevin Randelman and Mark Coleman. And Heath Herring put me up on game.<\/p>\n "And I went back and I told them, 'Oh, y'all paying me n***a money. What the f**k?'<\/p>\n "And then they got even madder at me and they didn't put me in the first video game. All this s**t happened.<\/p>\n "I didn't feel any loyalty to them. So I kind of started talking too much, I started saying too much – I'll never do it again. <\/p>\n <\/picture>CON ARTIST <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>ADE BOY <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>WHITE NOISE <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>ROCKY TIME <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n CASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO WELCOME OFFERS<\/strong><\/p>\n "I talked about how I fought Sakuraba how they offered me $1000 to take a dive."<\/p>\n Jackson, 45, claims his outspoken ways put him in the bad books of former Pride chief and current RIZIN president Nobuyuki Sakakibara – which he's still in over two decades later.<\/p>\n "Pride still don't f**k with me," he exclaimed. "When I went to RIZIN in Japan, I had to buy my own tickets.<\/p>\n "I had to buy five tickets, I didn't know where the seats were – it's all in Japanese.<\/p>\n "So I get there and I'm kinda far away from the ring and I'm posting it. I don't care [about being ringside], I don't care about that shit.<\/p>\n "And fans were like, 'Damn, n***a. They sat you in the nose bleeds.<\/p>\n "Then Nate [Diaz] gave me tickets to his fight and I was sitting front row and they were like, 'Oh, you got better seats' blah, blah, blah."<\/p>\n Jackson doesn't foresee a reconciliation between himself and his former employers, insisting: "They don't f**k with me.<\/p>\n "Pride, they don't f**k with me."<\/p>\n Jackson fought a whopping 17 times under the Pride banner before joining the now-defunct World Fighting Alliance, which was bought by the UFC in 2007.<\/p>\n He bagged a title shot with a brutal stoppage of Marvin Eastman in his debut in February 2007 and went on to dethrone then-light-heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell two-and-a-half months later with a first-round finish.<\/p>\n Jackson registered one title defence before losing the belt to Forest Griffin in July 2008.<\/p>\n He made a further nine appearances in the promotion, during which he failed in an ill-fated bid to reclaim the 205lbs title in a 2011 clash with Jon Jones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He was last in action four years ago against fellow MMA icon Fedor Emelianenko at Bellator 237 in Japan, where he suffered a first-round TKO defeat to the recently retired Russian.<\/p>\n SunSport has reached out to Nobuyuki Sakakibara for comment.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nREAD MORE IN UFC<\/span><\/h2>\n
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