Rampage Jackson Pride Before A Fall- Updated

Posted by Rob Curry

Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has spoken about his Pride debut and of how corrupt Pride Executives tried to make him take a dive against Japanese star Kazushi Sakuraba, Jackson was told that he would receive $12,000 dollars for the fight rather than his contracted $10,000 if he lost by Knockout or Submission and did not tap.

Speaking to MMA Today Jackson said:

"I'm never the type of fighter that would lose for money," Jackson said. "I don't do that. But they told me, 'If you win this fight, you get $10,000.' But they told me -- these are like the two people from PRIDE who got fired recently, I don't know if the president of PRIDE knew about it -- but they told me themselves: 'If you lose by knock-out or submission and you don't tap, you get $12,000.'

"I said, 'But what if I knock him out?' and they said 'You get $10,000.' Then I understood what was going on. This was my first time fighting in the big show in Japan and I learned sometimes they wanted the other guy to win."

After slamming the smaller Sakuraba several times and nearly lifting out of the ring over the top rope, Jackson, who took the fight on short notice, finally succumbed to Sakuraba after getting caught in a choke.

"I knew it was going to be tough for me to win that fight, so I went out there and gave it my best anyways to get my $10,000,"

This revelation comes in the wake of Rampage recently winning the UFC World Light Heavyweight Title at UFC 71, putting an end to Chuck Liddell's "Ice age".

Update:

Following Jacksons comments Pride responded denying Jacksons allegations, what is interesting though are the comments made by Dream Scape Entertainments Lawyer Tawnya Wojciechowski’s comments on Fight Network Radio Strangely she has denied but subsequently admitted that DSE did offer Jackson money for losing and is also on record as saying that it is in his contract, she states that he was also offered a bonus if he won also, and that the bonus for losing was to make the fight more interesting, but her denial of it being a bribe hangs on terminology alone as who ever heard of a bonus for losing?

Her revelation on the radio follows:

“I have the signed copy of his contract that we negotiated back in 2001...... The compensation that was structured for that particular event was that he would receive a fighting fee of $10,000. He was to receive a bonus if he won by either a submission hold, TKO or KO, he would receive $4,000 for the win. If he lost by KO, TKO or a referee’s stop, excluding a tapout, he would get $2,500, basically to make the fight more exciting. There was no bribe involved.”

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