Rampage Jackson was just on Steve Cofield’s radio show. His rant on Ariel Helwani was amazing, but the big news was that he isn’t sure he wants to take the fight with Rashad so quickly. He said he has a couple injuries he wants to take care of and he doesn’t know if he wants to fight so soon.
They may have to go with GSP-Alves after all, or pay Quinton more to take this fight. He only had a 4 week or so training camp for this fight, and to go right back into training sounded like a demoralizing thought to him.
At the press conference, Jackson said he didn’t know about the fight with Rashad Evans being moved up to May 23 until 15 minutes before he got out…He was clearly not thrilled about it. Dana White said they would wait a few days to give Jackson a chance to assess how he felt coming out of a tough fight and noted if Jackson turned it down, that Machida had already verbally accepted.