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Quinton “Rampage” Jackson didn’t appreciate Anthony Smith’s criticism of how he handles his podcast business.
On a recent episode of Jackson’s JAXXON show, Jackson had fellow former UFC champion T.J. Dillashaw on and one of the topics they discussed was the untapped potential of Kevin Holland. Dillashaw criticized Holland for a lack of discipline, guaranteeing that the two-division competitor “will never be a champion.”
Smith, another UFC title also-ran, caught a stray during the conversation, and he reacted to the JAXXON segment on his own podcast On Paper. What started as a critique of Jackson recently hosting controversial UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell (in an episode that has since been removed from the JAXXON YouTube page), spilled over into Smith claiming Jackson and his co-host Bear Degidio are too disrespectful to the fighters that are also their potential guests.
“You bring fighters on, you shit on them—It happened to me,” Smith said. “You brought me on, you’re super cool to me. I had a good time. I love Rampage, he’s my favorite fighter, I’ve said that for years. You’ve heard me say that a hundred times, Rampage is my favorite fighter. You bring me on I have an amazing time and several months later you’re on there with Dillashaw f*cking making fun of me. That’s what they do, that’s their thing. Honestly, it’s less Rampage, he’s just kind of the funny ha ha guy, and he just laughs about stuff.
“They’re just not great to fighters, they make fun of a lot of people. They did the same sh*t to Ian Garry when he was supposed to go on the show and then they spent the show before that calling him a cuck. Whether you think Ian Garry’s a cuck or not, you can’t bring the motherf*cker on the show the next episode after calling him a cuck and making fun of his family dynamic or him and his wife and his kids… I don’t agree with that.”
Smith’s response made its way to Jackson, who used his own YouTube channel to fire back with a profanity-laced tirade and threaten to fight Smith the next time he sees him.
“I love doing this podcast, this podcast got me back into MMA, and I’ve met a lot of fighters since I started doing this f*cking podcast and I’ve always stayed away from the fighters because I’m different from y’all and this is a motherf*cking problem right here, me being different from y’all,” Jackson said. “I saw this f*cking post that Anthony Smith did, I saw it this morning, f*cking pissed me off. When T.J. sat right motherf*cking here and said you’ll never be champion and said that you f*cking gave up, Bear and I f*cking had your back and that’s why we were saying, ‘Lionheart,’ with a f*cking nickname like Lionheart? Not ‘Lying Heart.’”
“And you took it as Bear and I were making fun of you. Bear and I actually liked your bitch ass, but now you’re a motherf*cking bitch because at first I didn’t say shit because I DM’d you. I looked at it, I could see how could think that I was making fun of him, too, so I DM’d you. I f*cking said to you in the DM, ‘Look here, I wasn’t making fun of you.’ Because I could have made fun of you. Fighters, we make fun of each other. Yeah, I’m a comedian pretending to be a motherf*cking fighter, but the problem is motherf*cker I really can fight. I hope I come down when I see you, because motherf*ckers like you get bitch-smacked for real. You did some bitch shit, you left me on read on your f*cking DMs when I tried to f*cking explain to you I wasn’t making fun of your bitch ass.”
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Rampage went on to say that he could have made fun of Smith’s December 2023 knockout loss to Khalil Rountree, but didn’t because his own career ended in 2019 with a brutal TKO loss to Fedor Emelianenko. But he raised the example to explain his belief that fighters making fun of each other is fair game.
He went on to further defend Dillashaw’s comments about Holland and Smith.
“I’m telling y’all bitch-ass motherf*ckers, soft-ass motherf*ckers out there, y’all need to chill the f*ck out and quit being little bitches,” Jackson said. “Yeah, T.J. shouldn’t say nobody shouldn’t be a f*cking champion, but that’s T.J and I respect him for that. He’s standing on business. He’s one of the greatest to ever do it in his motherf*cking weight class. Some of you guys are just bitches.”
The above clip ends with a heated Jackson storming off, while muttering that there could be a physical confrontation with Smith should they cross paths in the near future.
“This shit got me pissed off. I’m going to tell you, tell that Anthony Smith motherf*cker, call that motherf*cker up, tell him to keep my motherf*cking name out of his motherf*cking mouth. I see his bitch ass I’m going to smack the f*ck out of him.”
