Did Rashad know about Rampage's secret injury?

http://www.mmamania.com/2010/6/17/1522639/rampage-jackson-blames-secret-knee

Quote :

"I apologize for the fight not so much because I lost but because of how it went down. I always like to put on exciting fights for the fans but Rashad came out to use that ‘Greg Jackson’ plan: be boring and squeak out a victory. So that bothers me more than the loss. I remember one other thing he was doing - he was punching me in my knee! It was weird because I had suffered a real bad knee injury in camp but we kept it secret, we didn’t say anything about it and we didn’t even tell the UFC. I told my doctor and that was it, he helped me out but I was going to back out of the fight. The only reason I didn’t back out was the fight had been so hyped and I didn’t want to disappoint the fans. Why was he punching me in the knee though? That’s kind of weird - did he find out about the injury? I don’t know. Its weird."

I thought Rampage being totally asshurt was pretty much out in the open?

Excuses excuses.

I think Rampage is just more frustrated that Rashad used the Greg Jackson gameplan and not the brawl he promised. All this extra talk is just frustration IMO.

Rampage got beat up, plain and simple. Nearly KO'd in the first and GnP'ed in the third. So they didn't stand and do rock'em sock'em...that's not true MMA anyway.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

I think Rampage is just more frustrated that Rashad used the Greg Jackson gameplan and not the brawl he promised. All this extra talk is just frustration IMO.

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freakzilla316ftw wrote:

Excuses excuses.

+1

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

I think Rampage is just more frustrated that Rashad used the Greg Jackson gameplan and not the brawl he promised. All this extra talk is just frustration IMO.

All the trash talk was mental games, it was to make Rampage lose his cool and not follow through with his gameplan. Too bad Rampage was too moronic to figure that out.

Rampage should've taken advantage of Rashad's injury. I heard he had a yeast infection the day before the fight

bobbitt15 wrote:

Rampage should've taken advantage of Rashad's injury. I heard he had a yeast infection the day before the fight

lamo!

bu ya i heard rampage say this sometime after the fight im sure rashad found out one way or another cause that is kind of weird.

ehhh idk ive seen guys punch to the knees and thighs especially when they are mauling against the cage

On MMA Live Rampage said he wants Forrest Griffin next.

excellent interview with response from Shad.

Farmer1906 wrote:

excellent interview with response from Shad.

Great interview, I really don't understand why so many people dislike Rashad when he's an articulate well spoken fighter.

i like rashad i have never rooted against him until he fought page i have always picked him up until that point and i will be rooting for him when he faces shogun either later this year or early next.

I've never rooted for Rashad in a fight outside of Bisping and if they fought again I would root against him in that fight too

I never really rooted for Evans until after Machida knocked him out. I rooted for him in his fights since then.

Rashad's chin is no better than Liddell's is now, yet Rashad is in title fights and has been beating top ten fighter after top ten fighter.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

I never really rooted for Evans until after Machida knocked him out. I rooted for him in his fights since then.

Rashad's chin is no better than Liddell's is now, yet Rashad is in title fights and has been beating top ten fighter after top ten fighter.

what made you want to root for him after the machida fight?

Wolfgangsta wrote:

I never really rooted for Evans until after Machida knocked him out. I rooted for him in his fights since then.

Rashad's chin is no better than Liddell's is now, yet Rashad is in title fights and has been beating top ten fighter after top ten fighter.

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Uhhh what

Liddell took multiple clean punches from Rich and Shogun before he was KO'd. Rashad has been rocked easier infact in his last three fights. He just avoids getting punched at almost all costs while Liddell puts his unguarded chin in the gunsights of hard punchers compulsively.