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Rampage posted a blog earlier today on his website. It’s rather shocking and comes out of nowhere.

The UFC has done a lot for me but I think I have done more for them. The UFC bought WFA to get my contract & they saved my life, so I felt loyal to them. They pushed me into a fight with Chuck Liddel even when I clearly stated I wasn’t ready to fight for the belt because the American fans didn’t know me but I took the fight and didn’t complain & after I won the American fans booed me for the first time which changed the way I saw them & it hurt me deeply.

Then before I can even get out of the cage they announced that I was fighting Dan Henderson without even asking me. After I beat Dan Henderson, I made history in becoming the first undisputed champion in MMA but was never even given the pride belt in the cage & I was never promoted as the undisputed champ. Later Anderson Silva was.

Then they had me coach TUF season 7 and fight Forrest and the fight was very controversial & normally when a fight is that close & controversial there is normally an instant replay. I can name a couple of instances. Instead they offered me the Vanderlei Silva fight which I gladly accepted even though I know it was a very risky fight for me to take because of all the drama that was happening to me at the time. I fought that fight with a jaw injury and then a couple weeks later Dana called me and asked me to fight Rashad. For the first time I said no, I didn’t want to fight because it was such short notice & I wouldn’t have had a long break between camp. Dana talked me into fighting Rashad anyway but Rashad refused the fight and so I had to fight Jardine as a favor to the UFC instead of getting my belt back (which wasn’t even worth it to me financially).

Then I reinjured my jaw in the fight with Vanderlei & Jardine. Frank Mir gets hurt so they wanted to switch my fight from UFC 100 to the fight Frank couldn’t make it to but I couldn’t fight cause I needed jaw surgury. So they give Machida the fight against Rashad & they told me they want me to coach TUF season 10 against Rashad. That’s why I wanted Rashad to win so bad but when Rashad got knocked out I told them I wanted to fight Machida for the belt but Dana told me if I coach TUF against Rashad that I could fight Machida afterwards cause this was a different type of ultimate fighter show they were doing. After I signed the contract Dana then changes his mind & says I have to fight Rashad & even told me what to say in the press & so my fans think I was scared to fight Machida. After all that I still never complained & I did it all.

Then this movie role came about that I have been trying to get for over a year & as soon as I found out I was close to getting it, I called Dana right away & asked to push the Memphis fight back just a month or so. I told him what this movie role meant to me. I told him that I used to bond with my father watching the tv show as a kid when my parents where still married & it represents the memories I had with my father when we lived together. My dad became an alcohalic & addicted to drugs & we grew apart. But after my dad got his life back together, I was so proud of my dad & I told him I would always take care of him in the future & make him proud of me. My dad & I are still very big fans of the show & I am basically doing this for the childhood memories I had spending time in front of the tv with my dad. Dana went on the internet & mocked me because of that & I still did nothing. Dana & I finally talked & we made up & then after that he went back on the internet & said some bullshit & he was talking bad about the movie when information is not even supposed to be released & talking about payments which is not even true could really hurt my future acting career, which could very well last longer than my fighting career. I’m not like Randy Couture. My body has been getting so many different injuries that I wont be able to fight until my forties & neither do I want to fight that long. So I feel like my second career could be in jeopardy.. so I’m done fighting. I’ve been getting negative reviews from the dumb ass fans that don’t pay my bills or put my kids though college. So I’m hanging it up. I’m gonna miss all my loyal fans but hopefully they’ll follow me to my new career & I will gain more loyal fans along the way. & all you hater fans out there can kiss my big black hairy ass! & anybody that don’t like what I just said can come try to kick my ass!

I still feel the UFC is a great organization and I felt like I was very loyal to them but they didn’t respect my loyalty but I wish the UFC the best. I did a lot of things for them. I wish no bad blood between us but I have kids & a family back in Memphis to provide for & thats all that matters to me!

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He'll be back.

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DANA WHITE has hit out at Quinton Jackson's decision to quit the UFC and branded the fighter 'a baby'.

The UFC president was left reeling after former light-heavyweight champion Jackson called time on his mixed martial arts' career to pursue acting full-time.

Rampage will play BA Baracus in the forthcoming A-Team movie and his decision to accept the part meant he had to pull out of his UFC 107 clash with Rashad Evans, playing havoc with the promotion's fight schedule.

White publicly mocked the former Pride star for agreeing to take the role made famous by Mr T in the 1980s TV series, and Rampage hinted his comments were a key factor behind his shock retirement.

But the UFC boss has stepped up their war of words by criticising the 31-year-old's choice to swap the Octagon for Hollywood.

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 again vented his frustration at Jackson's decision to pull out of the December 12 bout with Evans — which was set to take place in Memphis.

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!"

But White insists he will remain on friendly terms with Jackson. He added: "I have nothing bad to say about Rampage, he is a grown man.

"What I have done with Rampage is I have spoken to him as a friend and tried to talk him out of making a bad decision, but he doesn't think it is.

"He thinks he is going to have this movie career but there have been so many fighters over the years that thought they were going to have these movie careers [and didn't]."