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UFC Rampage Jackson’s son, Raja, was arrested for the alleged beating of a professional fighter who was broadcast live.
Last month, Raja Jackson got into the ring and body of Stuart Smith, known professionally as Syko Stu, before beating the seemingly unconscious fighter in the Knokx Pro academy of struggle.
The assault was widely seen online in live images on Saturday and spread on social networks.
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Rampage Jackson is in the ring during a fight against Keith Jardine at UFC 96 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. (Jim Rinaldi/ICON SMI/ICON SPORT MEDIA through Getty Images)
Jackson was reserved for a serious crime charge and is currently being held with a bail of $ 50,000.
The Academy said Jackson assaulted Smith during a game, leaving the normal script to commit the beating. Jackson threw at least 20 blows to the apparently unconscious fighter’s head.
Smith suffered a “serious head injury, … trauma for the upper and lower jaws, a laceration in the upper lip and a fracture to the maxillary bone, which unfortunately resulted in the loss of several teeth,” according to a post on his Instagram.
Knokx Pro Entertainment & Academy published a statement on his Facebook page condemning Jackson’s act.
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (black and camouflage shorts) Fight with Chuck Liddell (blue shorts) during UFC 71 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 26, 2007 in Las Vegas. (Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC through Getty Images)
“What was supposed to be a planned and agreed place of struggle became an act of selfish and irresponsible violence against Mr. Smith,” reads the statement. “This atrocious act is rebuking and should never have happened. In the 17 years of operation of Knokx Pro Wrestling Academy, there has never been anything as atrocious as this and we apologize to our clients and fans.”
Rampage Jackson said the assault was part of a previously planned action that “went wrong” after Smith apparently angered Raja Jackson when he hit him unexpectedly on the side of the head before the day before the game.
“Raja told him that he could get his ‘recovery’ in the ring,” Rampage Jackson wrote. “I thought it was part of the show. It was a bad judgment and a job that went wrong. Raja is a MMA fighter, not a professional fighter and had no business involved in an event like this.
Rabege Jackson is in the ring during its semi -stated weight fight as part of UFC in Fox in United Center on January 26, 2013 in Chicago. (To the beautiful/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC through Getty Images)
Rabege Jackson was the UFC semi-marked weight champion in 2007 and 2008, and fought for several MMA promotions until 2019. He has also worked as a professional fighter and actor, especially playing Ba Baracus in the restart of the “The A-Team” film in 2010.
