UFC president Dana White has gone on the record and said that Quinton “Rampage” Jackson will be fighting this year, regardless of his legal problems and he could be fighting as early as November 15th. Here’s the quote via Yahoo! Sports:
“Of course he’ll fight. If he was doing drugs, if he had been drunk, if he had gone out there and done what he did because he was pissed off at someone, that would be a completely different story. But he was ill. And in this company, we support our friends and anyone who works for us when they’re ill and have problems. He was ill, the incident occurred, and now he’s fine.
“Rampage feels awful about the woman’s baby, but he had nothing to do with it. And the (traffic incident) occurred because he was very ill and not with him in control of his faculties.”
The situation is a strange one to say the least, with some MMA fans definitely turning on the former light heavyweight champion. Jackson is said to be facing Shogun, though there’s no official confirmation at this time.
