{"id":230153,"date":"2017-03-28T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=230153"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:26:45","slug":"quinton-rampage-jackson-first-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/quinton-rampage-jackson\/quinton-rampage-jackson-first-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinton “Rampage” Jackson: I was the first Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Friday, in the main event of Bellator 175, MMA legend<\/a> Quinton “Rampage” Jackson will take on wrestling specialist Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal in a compelling heavyweight grudge match<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In advance of this fight, Rampage explained to Yahoo! Sports<\/a> that he is not a fan of King Mo’s wrestling based style.<\/p>\n

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“Our sport has gotten so popular with all the excitement and the people like Dan Henderson, Wanderlei Silva, Chuck Liddell, Vitor Belfort, Tito Ortiz,\u201d he said (via BloodyElbow.com<\/a>).\u00a0\u201cTito was a wrestler, but he\u2019d take you down and ground and pound you. Those are the guys who made this sport super popular.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBut then you get guys like King Mo\u00a0and, with all due respect, Rashad Evans and D.C. [Daniel Cormier], who just like hugging people on the ground. You hear the people complaining about that, and I don\u2019t want to fight that way. I want to have exciting fights. If we ask fans to buy tickets and come down and sit there and watch fights for hours, we have to give them their money\u2019s worth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Conor<\/p>\n

Rampage then compared his own entertaining style to that of UFC superstar Conor McGregor<\/a>, referring to himself as the first Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was the first Conor,” he said. “I was Conor Mc-[N-word],\u201d Jackson said. \u201cHe can talk and say what he wants and talk about money and say he\u2019s in it for the money and nobody opens their mouth and says anything negative about what he is saying.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing the same stuff, but everybody\u2019s trying to shut me up. And then there are people who take me out of context and say, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s just in it for the money. He don\u2019t love this no more.\u2019 You know what? What I do is try to entertain people. It\u2019s all I\u2019ve ever tried to do. I\u2019m an entertainer and I\u2019m always going to try to entertain people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do you think of these comments from Rampage? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 3\/28\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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