UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson is an exciting fighter with excellent wrestling skills and very solid striking, both on his feet and on the ground. He's known for spectacular throws and slams. In the video above, Ricardo Arona is reaching for his foot to secure a triangle choke that could have ended the match when Jackson picks him up and slams him to the mat. An accidental headbutt knocks out Arona and ends the fight. To see Quinton in his first Pride fight, hit the link at the end of this Sakuraba post.
Outside the ring, he's known for entertaining interviews. Before his first fight in Japan, he was given a role to play and ran with it:
To add to his woes, Jackson was besieged by a horde of Japanese media anxious to paint him as something of a violent, street hardened criminal. Already it had been reported in Japanese newspapers that Jackson lives in a bus and communicates with homing pigeons in place of a telephone. Instructed by Pride officials to play the heel, Jackson added fuel to the media frenzy by blatantly and comically perpetuating these stereotypes during the course of an impromptu press conference.Quinton is one of the coaches on the current season of "The Ultimate Fighter."
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FCF: At this point now they did at least agree to let weigh in on Saturday. What particular time?
QJ: I weigh in at 6:00 PM. They think because I live in a bus and I'm poor, that they can push me around.
FCF: There seem to be a lot of rumors swirling around about you in the Japanese media. You mentioned living in a bus.
QJ: Is this [interview] going to be in Japan or America?
FCF: America.
QJ: Then Japan won't see this?
FCF: No.
QJ: Hell no, I don't live in no motherfuckin' bus (laughs). Terry Trebilcock told that shit to try promote me as a--I don't know what he's trying to do. I guess if Japanese people like me living in a bus, goddammit call me the Busboy. Fuck it. If they're going to pay me for living in a bus, goddamn, I'm not lying, I'll take pictures in a bus next time.
