Rampage loses respect for Forrest, looks to fight in Nov.
Don't know how this is going to happen with the felony charges he's facing. I'm just hoping for swift justice - if he's guilty, let him take whatever punishement the court metes out; if he's innocent, get him back in the Octagon.
Rampage Jackson says he hasn't heard anything from the UFC regarding a rematch with Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua.
Speaking to Fighters Only earlier today, he said: "I didn't know anything about Shogun, I was trying to get Wanderlai Silva, I was told I might be fighting him."
"But to be honest with you, I don't really give a damn who I fight, I just want to fight and show the world that Rampage is the best when he gets the best elements around him and the best training."
But one fight he definitely does want is a rematch with Forrest Griffin, after losing a controversial decision - and he light-heavyweight belt - to him last month.
Regarding that fight, he says: "I just want my fans to know, I was at my worst and Forrest was at his best - and I still beat him.
He added: "A man is not a man if he can't 'fess up to when he gets his ass kicked. See me, if I get my ass kicked I am like 'yeah, I got my ass kicked'.
However, Jackson says that when he said those exact words at the end of the fight in July, "I was being sarcastic, because I really could not believe that it went the way it did".
"I'm not a sore loser, shit happens. But I was hoping that Forrest would be a man and come out and say 'You know what, I didn't win that fight', especially after he watched it.
"I wasn't really sure, right at the end of the fight... I know he hurt me and punched me in the face a couple of times but I was bobbing and weaving and making him miss, stuff like that.
"I was hoping that he would come out later after he saw the fight and say 'yeah, I saw the fight and I lost that fight."
Jackson says that he has "lost a lot of respect" for Griffin in the wake of the fight, largely because the new champion has not been talking of a rematch despite winning the belt in controversial fashion.
"After the fight, I said 'I've got to give you a lot of respect, because you hurt my leg and you had a good game plan'," he explains.
"But now, I don't respect him as a man. Because if it was me, I would have said, 'I have to give him a rematch right away, to remove all doubt'.
"I'm a man and when you fight it's all about honour. I'm not angry at him or anything, don't get me wrong, but I've lost respect for him as a man."
