Rampage Jackson

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Hell no, he ain't doing no damn stunts!  You crazy?  He's just here to say "I ain't getting on no plane, Hannibal" and then collect his check.  Naw, dog.  He's just going to kick it over here off to the side and sip some coffee.  Let this guy do the stunts...

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The hate train continued on last night's ep of The Ultimate Fighter, which opened up with the coaches mocking each other's losses. Rashad imitates Rampage getting wrecked by Wanderlei Silva in their first fight, and Rampage imitates Rashad's "stanky leg" routine against Machida. Rampage calls Rashad "Gayshad." Rashad calls Rampage a whiny bitch. God, I could watch this all day.

So, back to business. Rashad picks Matt "Meathead" Mitrione to fight Scott Junk, who is frighteningly amped up in the staredown. Dana White likes Scott in the fight, because of all his experience. By default, Mike Wessel vs. Marcus Jones will be the final fight in the round-of-16.

Directly after the picks, Rampage and Rashad get into it again. You can watch the scene here, but basically, Rashad says he's going to make Rampage quit just like he quit in the competition (!), and Rampage says that it's his fighters who have quit, not him. (Cut to a very hurt-looking Kimbo Slice.) Rampage repeats that he's not a coach, but he brought some dudes who can coach, and they're doing a great job, ain't that right? (Cut to a very confused looking Wes Shivers and Zak Jensen.) The coaches nearly come to blows. Rashad has one shoe off, totally ready for it. Rampage: "Take both shoes off. I'm in your face now. Touch me. Please."

If you were hoping that Dan Henderson's contract negotiation breakdown with the UFC would lead him to abandon his patented understated, laconic style in favor of calling Dana White a stingy bastard and accusing Anderson Silva of shucking and ducking, you're about to be disappointed.  In his latest interview, Hendo confirms DW's characterization of the talks as having reached a stalemate, but says he still thinks he's worth more and can get more than what the UFC is offering him, and dammit, come February he's fighting somebody, somewhere.  Dan has a good point when he says he's not too keen on seeing a guy who he beat, and who has never even fought as a middleweight in the UFC, jump ahead of everybody else for the title shot.  But hey, like Vitor Belfort already said, he's just working from the neck down like everybody else in the UFC.

After the jump, Natasha Wicks tries on the five best/sluttiest Halloween costumes she can find, and "Rampage" Jackson puts in overtime busting Rashad Evans' balls on tonight's episode of "The Ultimate Fighter."

("...I, on the other hand, look like a very intelligent and compassionate person." Photo via joblo.com.)

Most longtime fans have gone through some variation of the following experience: You spend months trying to convince your co-workers that MMA is the baddest sport ever invented, and they need to give it a chance. So they come over to your place one night to watch a UFC event, and what they see instead is sloppy brawling, boring ground-hugging, and inexplicable judges' decisions. "It's usually a lot better than this," you say desperately as they slowly file out the door. But it's too late; they're gone, they won't be back, and you'll be eating most of your lunches alone from now on. It's a humiliating feeling. Now imagine if those co-workers were Oscar-nominated actor Liam Neeson and The Hangover's Bradley Cooper, and you'll have an idea of what Quinton "Rampage" Jackson had to endure on Saturday. Sour grape warning begins now:

(You may not like Tiki's signature facial hair design, but you have to respect the amount of work he's willing to put into it just to let the world know that he is not to be taken seriously. Photo by Esther Lin.)

If you saw the confrontation between Rashad Evans and Team Rampage assistant coach Tiki Ghosn that was edited out of a recent episode of “The Ultimate Fighter,” then we don’t have to tell you that things got heated in a hurry.  Just like a family reunion, one minute it’s idle talk and the next minute we’re headed out to the parking lot for a fight.  Cooler heads, as they often do, prevailed in the end, and no “Never Back Down”-esque parking lot fight occurred, but Tiki wants you to know that a) he was definitely going to do it, and b) Evans is obviously scared of him: 

“Rashad is a good fighter; I’m not going to tell you any different, but at the same time he's an asshole and I want to shut his face up. Seriously, Rashad hasn’t faced the caliber of strikers I have in my career and only after he fights a couple of top end elite strikers can he talk - until then he has no business criticizing me. It got old real fast watching him get in our faces just to play up to the cameras, so I said 'you know what lets settle this outside like men'. Of course he backs down and starts running his mouth to get out of the situation - I could see the fear in his eyes when we were making our way to the parking lot, he doesn’t want to mix it up with me at all. Seriously, I was seconds away from laying him out but I had to restrain myself because the cameras were rolling.”