UFC 130 Quote: Rampage Jackson Would Rather Be Making Movies Than Fighting

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Former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson co-starred in the A-Team movie last year and he's hoping to get more opportunities to work in film. Jackson's film obligations caused a good deal of friction with UFC President Dana White when it caused the six month delay of his grudge match against Rashad Evans after the UFC had planned on having the fight in Jackson's home town of Memphis, TN at UFC 107. Instead fans had to wait until UFC 114.

Jackson spoke to Five Knuckles about his career aspirations:

"As soon as movies start paying me more than I make to fight, I'm gone. It don't hurt to make movies. It don't hurt that bad. Everyday I train. Everyday I'm like, 'Man, I can't wait until I get another big movie.'"

"Hell yeah, you can't fight forever," Jackson said. "I don't have the type of blood Randy Couture has. I give it up to him. I take my hate off to that guy, but I'm not that guy. I don't plan on fighting until I'm 40. And I'm not Chuck Liddell. I'm not coming to work inside the UFC office when I retire. That's not me. I'm an entertainer, I like making people laugh. I like doing movies, action moves and stuff like that. I might even try to be a comedian one day, who knows?

"I wanna keep going after I get done fighting. Some fans are kinda selfish, they don't understand I got four kids that gotta be put through college and everything. MMA don't have an MMA pension. They don't pay you once you retire. I got bills, I gotta keep going."

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Jackson will fight next against Matt Hamill at UFC 130 on May 28th.

HT MMA Mania