(Video courtesy of YouTube/MMAHeat)
I’ve worked for several major corporations who mandated that their employees sit through mind-numbing lectures and videos detailing what comments and suggestive behavior constitute sexual harassment. There’s a thin line between what are regarded as harmless remarks like, “I like your dress,” or, “Nice haircut,” and what’s considered lewd.
I remember one video in particular that stands out. According to the, “sexual harassment expert” in the film, sexually suggestive comments and innuendos don’t become harassment until a set boundary between the two parties has been crossed. For example, when a woman tells a man that she doesn’t appreciate him making remarks about how her jeans fit or what he’d like to do to her, it becomes harassment when he makes them again.
If you look back at Quinton Jackson‘s history of dry-humping and sniffing the behinds of female reporters, it’s not surprising that he told MMA Heat’s Karyn Bryant following his UFC 130 win over Matt Hamill Saturday night that he wanted to “motorboat” her and that she better get away from him before he “humps” her like he has other women interviewers like our own Heather Nichols.
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Nichols, who says she was in complete shock during the much ballyhooed incident, told Sports Illustrated that she thought about kneeing Jackson in the balls to get him off of her, but instead soldiered on through the interview.
“At first I was just shocked when he grabbed me, and all I could think was, ‘Oh my gosh, what is he doing?!’ Then I tried to play along a little bit because I knew he was trying to be funny, but after about the first 5-10 seconds, it was just plain awkward. I kept thinking, ‘What should I do? Knee him? Keep going?’ So I decided to keep asking questions, assuming he would stop if I did that,” Nichols explained. “So I asked another question, and he kept going. I asked ANOTHER question, and he kept going. At this point I was just freaking out, but still trying to be a professional and ask all the questions I was assigned to ask, and this has been interpreted by some viewers as me liking it and egging him on. This was definitely not the case. I was hired to do a job, which was to interview Rampage, so I decided to put up with his shenanigans and finish the interview.”
Under the somewhat loose definition of harassment policy of the company I used to be employed by, had she told him to stop, she would have a sexual harassment case if he continued to hump her. Because she didn’t and because she didn’t skip a beat and even laughed when it happened, it would be tough to prove harassment, but the fact is, there’s no question as to whether or not Rampage acted inappropriately.
Now, I’m all for a good laugh, but its incidents like these are partially what is keeping MMA from gaining real widespread mainstream acceptance. Bob Reilly is probably sitting in his office as I type this working feverishly to add the clip to his latest anti-MMA Powerpoint presentation he will be presenting to the New York State Assembly in the coming months. You can bet that the UFC adding mandatory anti-sexual harassment or sensitivity training to the agenda of next year’s UFC Fighter Summit, if it doesn’t before then.
Brett Favre’s incident with Jenn Sterger was the reason the NFL began its anti-sexual harassment training and policy and its safe to say Rampage will likely be the reason the UFC does the same, and so they should.








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I am really in 2 minds about what was really happening in that video. Certainly if I am having this much trouble deciphering the situation though, Rampage had no chance!
Again, I'd love to hear another person's interpretation.
Now onto Karyn Bryant. I can't see how what she is doing to be anything but flirting. She's standing right in his space, looking between his eyes and lips over and over, smiling coyly, softening her tone, using her shoulders to give cheeky glances, and tilting her neck. When Rampage starts his own style of "I'm alpha" flirting Karyn responds by smiling, leaning in, flicking her hair and revealing her inner wrist. At the very worst point of the debacle where Rampage goes to motorboat her breasts she actually moves them TOWARDS his face. I mean come on?
Now bigger picture - I completely understand that behaving this way with REPORTERS is completely inappropriate when conducting an interview. Clearly this is how Rampage behaves when he is trying to get women, and there is a very good reason for that: it works for him! This behaviour is not the result of him being misguided. This behaviour has very much been guided by his past experience and material feedback of such actions. Rampage, however, clearly has not realised he needs to not do this in certain situations: i.e. to reporters in recorded interviews. This I believe is the only thing he needs to correct in his behaviour. Actually I think in general his behaviour in interviews is absolutely despicable and sets the image of the sport the majority of responsible participants are attempting to foster back a decade.
I would be really interested to read the opinions of another body language analyst on these two videos.
Also, just to be clear, I am no fan of Rampage. I think he is a fucking moron, and I cannot believe someone who caused the death of an unborn baby is greeted with such warmth by MMA fans. I think he is the scum of the earth.
Check out the link to CagePotato article.
I did not think Duffee was relevant enough to cite and I love Henderson too much to bring him up in a bad light, so I shit on Sonnen. From what I know, Randy changed his diet quite a long time ago and began drinking some seriously green liquids and this has served him well. Also check out my post at the bottom..
LOL at Linland on the juice...he spoke to kizer about exemptions.
http://www.cagepotato.com/todd-duffee-and-dan-henderson-both-have-testosterone-replacement-therapy-exemptions-nevada/
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It has been a vestige of primal, and very male, behaviour in a society that has increasingly tried to suppress such men. And women who value male behaviour.
I frankly hate PC weenies and other phuks who try to socialize and micromanage all of society, to ensure their own comfort and that there are no sharp edges or hard surfaces to be found anywhere.
Lay the phuk off Rampage, wuss. If he behaves like an asshole, a free society has ways of sorting him out.
You should cover another sport.
If Rampage got into the physical space of another person, was told to step off and persisted, he is guilty of assault.
Reporters would then be obliged to avoid Rampage thereby punishing him with a loss of publicity and reputation. Period.
No need to get government and the courts involved.
And idiotic behavior by individual fighters has DICK ALL to do with the acceptance of MMA by the mainstream.
Just out of curiosity, who said MMA NEEDS to be accepted by the mainstream general public to any greater extent than it already is?
Why not get the violence out of MMA, too, while you're at it? That would reeeeeeally bring the rest of the public on board.
Pinhead.
thanks for paying out big time at UFC 130!
Testosterone is a steroid. It's not like you inject something into your body called steroids. So yes Chael was accused of taking steroids. Please tell me what testosterone therapy involves if you do not think steroids(like test, boldenone, primobolan etc...). There is not some magical testosterone out there that is not considered or classified as a steroid when it comes to injecting it into your body.
What's silly is that the comission is allowing exemptions, imagine any other pro sport allowing athletes to take steroids and continue to perform. I was just pointing out that sexual harrassment is the least of the UFC's or MMA's worries.
I'm more a fan of Natural Selection(Darwin) than Chael Sonnen.
Yes athletes like wrestlers who cut weight do experience side effects that come with it(lowered testosterone over time)but if Randy ain't applying for steroid exemption(or testosterone therapy as many like to call it).
Dana "Captain Save-a-Ho" White on this one?????????????????????????
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