Quinton "Rampage" Jackson Holding Off On In-Ring Wrestling Career?

Brian Hemminger of MMA Mania recently interviewed Quinton "Rampage" Jackson about his new deal with Bellator MMA and TNA Wrestling. During the interview, Jackson noted how difficult it was to do wrestling and MMA concurrently, and said that he would hold off on wrestling until his fighting career was over.

"I've always wanted to be a pro wrestler since I was a kid, but now that I'm older and have had a lot of injuries, people don't understand the toll that wrestling takes on your body," Jackson said. "I just don't think I can do that now while I'm fighting, but when I retire from fighting and go full time into pro wrestling, then I think I can go and get more extensive with my style and my moves.

"Right now, I just want to stick to what I know. I haven't trained for wrestling but I know MMA and MMA is exciting. That's why it has such a big following that it does now and I want to bring my style into my performance. Guys like Samoa Joe have an MMA style in their pro wrestling and stuff like that. I want to be different than him. I still like to slam and throw people and that's why I did that so many years in my MMA career because I was a pro wrestler at heart. I wanted to bring some pro wrestling into my MMA back in Pride and now I want to bring some MMA into my pro wrestling."

Rampage also discussed his MMA career, meeting Hulk Hogan, wanting to fight Roy Nelson and more. You can read the full interview at this link.

Source: MMA Mania