Rampage Jackson Details What Raja Jackson Told Him About Syko Stu Incident

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson speaks on the actions of his son Raja Jackson and his actions against Syko Stu.

At KnokX Pro on August 23, Raja legitimately knocked out independent wrestler Syko Stu at KnokX Experience in a planned spot that went too far. Raja entered the ring, slamming Stu and knocking him out, before delivering over 20 legitimate strikes to the head.

Appearing on The Ariel Helwani Show with Ariel Helwani, Rampage addressed Raja’s actions.

“People act like I fucking did it. I’m getting heat like I beat somebody’s ass,” Rampage said after being asked how he was doing.

“This has happened in pro wrestling before. What Raja did was uncalled for. I know it affected a lot of people. I didn’t fucking do it. I think because he’s my son and his father is a public figure, they want to come after me. People automatically assume I’m going to defend my son and I’m going to pay people off and get him out of trouble. I’m just as mad at Raja as they are. Raja lied to me. I was livestreaming when he got hit over the head with the can and I called him, ‘Son, what’s going on?’ He didn’t tell me nothing about them working him into a match so he could get his payback. He knows I would have told him to take his ass home. The day before, he almost got knocked out in the gym. I had to get an attorney and they told me not to say nothing. I’m seeing everything unfold online, and now it’s turned racist. I have racist people saying stuff to me in my DMs, which is okay, it happened every now and again, just randomly somebody will say something racist. Now, I have racist people threatening me and my family, my other kids. What does this have to do with race? One man hit another man on the back of the head with a can. You can call it a prop can, it was a real can. They were out there drinking a beer. The other man decided to retaliate. What’s it got to do with race? Why bring race into it? Then, I talk about it, and people twist my words. I give a statement and I get back to what I was doing, streaming. It makes me laugh and keeps me happy. I’m getting all this hate from all that. I’m waiting for Syko Stu to get out of the hospital so he can tell his side of the story. This is what Raja told me when I talked to him. He goes there to stream so he has content to stream because he’s friends with one of the pro wrestlers. I’ve been to shows with AJ Mana.

“Those guys are normally cool. [Raja] said, ‘Syko Stu was drunk and he hit me upside the head with a can and I didn’t know nothing about it. He embarrassed me on my stream. I was scared to fight because I didn’t know if other wrestlers were going to jump me. I know I’m not supposed to fight because I got a concussion. I didn’t know. I was really upset. They told me I could get my get back in the ring.’ People got mad because they don’t understand pro wrestling. They didn’t know they wrote Raja into the show. They thought he was a coward and he snuck in the ring and beat the guy up while he was working. They don’t understand that they wrote Raja into the storyline. Raja said, ‘I’m going to be in character. I’m livestreaming. I’m going to fuck him up. They told me I can fuck him up.’ People get mad at AJ Mana. Everybody was stupid in it. The whole thing was stupid. I think the only one that tried to salvage this thing and had common sense was AJ Mana. He was like, ‘Get your receipt. Hit him one time and let it be gone.’ AJ heard them tell Raja, ‘You can fuck him up.’ They don’t know Raja. AJ knows Raja. He trains with him. He was the only one trying to save Syko Stu and the whole situation. ‘Remember, I taught you what a receipt is. Hit him one time and if anybody has a problem with that, I’ll come deal with it.’ Raja acted like he understood what AJ was saying and he took it upon himself to hit him a little too much. Raja was wrong. As soon as Syko Stu got knocked out from the slam, Raja should’ve left him alone and not hit him no more. You got your payback. Raja took it too far. I don’t appreciate people paying attention to misinformation. There are people who took stuff out of proportion to get clicks and money from social media like my son stepped into the ring like he wasn’t supposed to be there. That’s not fair.”

Asked how Raja was doing, Rampage replied, “I don’t know. I don’t talk to Raja no more. I talked to him, heard his story, heard some of the stuff, and after that I learned a whole lot about it. Raja is wrong. He went against what I told him to do and he hid the fact that he got wrote into a pro wrestling story. Raja is not a pro wrestler. He’s a fighter. He had no business in that ring. Everybody there was wrong. Yes, my son took it too far. He knows better. He knows he is wrong for getting involved in a pro wrestling match. He wasn’t supposed to do it. I told him he couldn’t go to the gym for two weeks.”

Asked if he knew where Raja was, Rampage replied, “Most likely, he’s at home. We’ve been waiting for an arrest warrant. As soon as we get an arrest warrant, I was going to turn him in. We’ve been waiting for an arrest warrant. I got him an attorney. I did what my job is as a father to take care of my son because I still love him. Even as upset as I am, he’s my son. Ever since he became an adult, he doesn’t listen to shit I say. All I can do is be a father. Raja knows I keep it real. I’m not going to lie for him. He shouldn’t have been in that ring. As soon as Syko Stu hit him in the head, he should’ve handled it right there.

“I called Syko Stu and left him a message. I wanted to talk to him. This is before I knew everything. At this point, all I knew was Raja hurt him pretty bad. I called him and left him a voice message, he never called me back. I told him that I wanted to talk to him so I could hear his side of the story because I’m a dad and want to make everything right. Syko Stu never got in touch with me, and I’m hearing this other stuff like the pro wrestlers are not meant to talk to the police because they were drinking backstage. Syko Stu was drunk. I know people that work there. They said Syko Stu, it’s not the first time he’s done stuff like that. Drunkenly hit somebody or did something backstage. Right before Raja got in the ring, there were four dudes in there. Raja got in there and the referee didn’t touch him. It took those guys a long time to get back in the ring. Then, after they finally got Raja off, Syko Stu’s opponent pins him. I’m like, ‘What’s going on here? Can’t they tell this guy is hurt? Why would they finish the match and pin Syko Stu after my son hurt him?’ All these guys, it was the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Raja did something stupid and streamed it all on his platform. There’s nothing wrong with streaming. Hundreds of thousands stream, and they don’t have stupid stuff like this. Raja got out of hand. One thing y’all don’t know about Raja but I know, he doesn’t take bullshit. He felt very disrespected that the guy hit him on the back of the head with the can. The only reason why he dropped it and let it go is because they told him you can get your get back in the ring. ‘We’ll make something out of it. You can fuck him up in the ring.’ Raja is like, ‘Okay then.’ I saw the video. He went to talk to Syko Stu and he was like, ‘I understand it now.’ People saw the video and took it as he apologized, so why did (Raja) get in the ring? That’s misinformation. They think he just snuck in the ring and attacked this man without Syko Stu knew it was coming. Stupid.”

AJ Mana previously stated that Raja was there to stream and get more attention on AJ and KnokX Pro.

Rampage confirmed as much when asked why Raja was at the event.

“Raja was there as a fan and streaming,” said Rampage. “He’s friend with AJ and they were going to get backstage footage. His community loves AJ Mana. From my understanding, Syko Stu didn’t know (Raja) from Adam or Steve. He just walked up behind my son and hit him in the head with a can. It was a real can. My son said it didn’t hurt. Syko Stu did it like a pro wrestler. It wasn’t like my son got hurt from that, but he embarrassed him. He hit him and didn’t say anything to him. You see Syko Stu grab my son by the neck. My son felt very disrespected and he didn’t like that. Nobody would like that. I’m not justifying what my son did. Syko Stu’s punishment didn’t fit the crime. Raja didn’t try to kill that man. It was real bad and he wanted to fuck him up, but he didn’t go in there like, ‘I’m going to kill this guy.’ He wasn’t thinking that. Raja is actually one of the sweetest people you would ever meet, honestly, he is, but don’t fuck with him. He’s like me. I’m the sweetest and nicest guy, all I want to do is make people laugh, but don’t fuck with me. Don’t grab me and ask me to sell. Raja don’t know what selling is. He doesn’t know what that shit means. He’s not a pro wrestler. You don’t know what’s going through his mind. All you know is, ‘This guy disrespected me on my own platform.’ People don’t understand that. The shit just got out of hand.”

Rampage noted that Raja has been going viral with some of his streams and goofy around. He also said the chat can be toxic after Helwani said that the chat was egging on Raja at the event.

“He told me, ‘I was in character. The shit happened live on stream.’ He was in character,” stated Rampage. “He didn’t give a fuck about what the chat says. Raja really did hit him and you can see one guy try to pull Raja off and Raja is still hitting him. Then, you see Raja throw punches that land in the air and stomach. It seemed like Raja was trying to sell it, but he really hurt that man. Raja could’ve killed him. You can kill somebody if they’re knocked out and you keep punching him. Where would we be if Raja would have killed him? Thank God Syko Stu pulled through. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. I wanted Syko Stu to tell his part that my son didn’t sneak up on him, and I never heard him say that. Now I’m upset with Syko Stu because he didn’t come out and say, ‘What Raja did was fucked up, but he didn’t sneak in the ring and do that. The shit was staged.’ That’s all he had to say to get these racist ass motherfuckers out of my DMs.”

Helwani noted that Stu hasn’t made any kind of statement or said anything. He reportedly got out of the hospital on August 31st.

“He’s seeing all this shit, how it blew up. He should’ve said something,” said Rampage. “Take some accountability. Everybody was wrong. Raja was the most wrong. Everybody was wrong, but none of this shit would’ve happened if Syko Stu never hit my son on the back of the head with a can that they were drinking beer out of and grabbed him by the neck asking him to sell it. If that shit never happened, none of this shit happens. The promoters were wrong for putting an outsider inside of a pro wrestling match. Everybody is wrong. The dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. A fucking nightmare.”

Asked if he was surprised that Raja hasn’t been arrested, Rampage replied, “No. I feel like the police is doing a deep investigation. This is not the first time this has happened in pro wrestling. It’s a high profile case because it was live streamed.”

Rampage said this stuff happens at the lower levels of pro wrestling.

“Any man that beats somebody like that in the ring, they should face some consequences, but I don’t take kindly to people calling my son a caged animal. Any race can explode when pushed,” said Rampage.

Asked if Raja should go to jail, Rampage replied, “Yeah. If the judge thinks he should go to jail, yeah. He should go to jail so he’ll learn not to do this shit no more. You have to control your emotions. He should go to jail, not prison, but he should do a little time, get some therapy, and learn from this.”

Rampage said that he would kick somebody’s ass on the spot if they fucked with him.

He continued, “Raja said the only reason he didn’t kick Syko Stu’s ass right then and there is because he thought other pro wrestlers were going to jump on him. That’s where I’m different from Raja. I wouldn’t have cared. I would have hit him right then and there, and anybody that grabbed me, I would’ve attacked them too. You just don’t do that.”

Asked if he expects Raja to be arrested, Rampage replied, “I don’t know. I accept whatever justice he gets. If they try to give him years in prison, then I’m going to fight it. I don’t think he deserves years in prison. Jail? Yeah, let Raja go to jail for a couple of days so he’ll see what it’s like.”

Helwani mentioned Rampage’s past comments about saving money for Raja because he thought Raja would be the kid to end up in jail. Rampage said he originally said that Joe Rogan because he was trying to impress Rogan and make him laugh, and he’s used that joke over the years, but now sees it’s not a joke.

Getting back to the incident, Rampage said “Raja told me that they told him that he has to sell it because he’s live streaming. His whole thing was to get the get back, fuck up Syko Stu, and leave. Sell it. Don’t make it look like pro wrestling. He told me he was selling it. The whole thing happened on stream. You can’t break character. He was ignorant and he fucked the guy up. I don’t know if he knew how much he fucked the guy up. If you think about it, Syko Stu was supposed to get fucked up. Even in the script, Syko Stu was supposed to get fucked up. That’s why you see the guy pin Syko Stu after they got Raja off of him. Raja was like, ‘They told me to sell it. I sold it.’ He did what he was told to do; fuck him up, sell it, get out of there. That’s what he told me. Do Raja always tell me the truth? No, but in this instance, I kind of believe him. I’ve done pro wrestling shit before.”

Rampage referenced his time in TNA and having to sell a hammer shot for Tito Ortiz even when he was at the airport the next day.

Asked if he thought Stu knew Raja was going to interference, Raja said, “Yeah, Stu knew. That’s why my son said, ‘If I fuck him up. That’s fine. I’ll be okay with it.’ That’s why Stu came over and shook his hand and everything. Stu knew the script. Look how big Syko Stu is and how small my son is. Syko Stu let my son pick him up. It seemed like the slam was too hard because it looked like Syko Stu was knocked out on the slam, but I don’t know if my son knew he was knocked out right there because it was in the script. He was supposed to fuck up Syko Stu. He knew it. That’s the only reason my son accepted his apology. ‘Alright, if I can fuck him up.'”

Asked if he spoke with Raja before he got in the ring, Rampage replied, “No. He didn’t tell me he was going in the ring. He just told me, ‘He hit me in the head with a can and it didn’t hurt. Everything is cool now.’ I said, ‘Are you good? Did you get jumped?’ ‘No, they didn’t jump me. Everything is cool.’ He kept it short.”

Rampage reiterated that Raja hid the fact that he was getting in the ring and that he’s mad with Raja right now. He said Raja has been doing the opposite of what Rampage tells him to do and that he dishonored Rampage’s name and now his whole family is getting threats.

“Raja should do time. Do community service, and go to anger management classes. See some therapy. It wasn’t attempted murder. He wasn’t trying to kill that guy. Raja probably didn’t even know how bad he hurt him. He wasn’t trying to kill him,” stated Rampage.

Rampage reiterated that Raja doesn’t like people fucking with him.

“That’s the worst thing Syko Stu could have done. To fucking hit him over the head with something. Even if it didn’t fucking hurt. Raja doesn’t know that guy. Raja thinks someone does something like that to him, probably racist. That’s Raja’s go to. ‘He hit me in the back of the head. I don’t know him. He’s racist.’ Raja doesn’t take kindly to that,” he said.

Asked if he’s spoke to Stu or his family, Rampage replied, “Nobody called me back. I was checking on him through other people I knew. I saw a post from him and he was released from the hospital. I heard he was released from the hospital two or three days before they sent that shit. I’ve been checking up on it. People were hyping it up like he was in worse condition than he was. He wasn’t. Just knocked some teeth out and stuff like that. If that guy was fucked up so bad, why would they let his opponent pin him before they got him help? The whole situation is fucked up. I think people milked stuff for the GoFundMe. I’m sorry to say it. People milk shit. It’s the world we live in.”

Asked if he spoke to the promoter, Rampage replied, “I talked to him that day. When the police were getting there. He was telling me my son fucked up his whole thing and the show might get canceled. I was like, ‘My son had no business in there. What the fuck was he doing in there?’ I don’t remember everything he said. They told me they wrote (Raja) into the show so he could get his get back and Raja was supposed to go in there, slam him, give him some punches, and Raja took it too far.”

Rampage said he hasn’t talked to the police and shot down the notion that he would pay people to not talk to the police or change their story to the police.

“When he gets in the ring, go back and watch, they changed the music for him. The promoter told him to fuck him up. I think AJ Mana is the only one that had a little common sense to tell Raja, ‘Remember what a receipt is. Pop him one time.’ AJ Mana was the only one that had a little common sense. I wish he would’ve called me, but I was on the ground in New York so it probably wouldn’t have gone through. They changed the music when my son got in the ring. This is the fucked out thing. What took them so long? They said, ‘Punch him until we pull you off.’ What took his friends or team so long to get in there and get Raja off of him? That’s probably why nobody has talked to the police. Investigate that shit. Why did it take his friends so long to get in the fucking ring?

“This ain’t the first time Syko Stu has done some shit like this backstage. Motherfucker be drinking all the goddamn time. He plays, ‘Pro wrestling saved me from PTSD’ like nobody wants to fire his ass. AJ Mana told me everything. This isn’t the first time he’s done some drunken shit like this backstage. I don’t owe them loyalty. The police need to investigate that shit. How many times has Syko Stu attacked somebody backstage and piss people off being drunk and shit? Then you guys will figure out what took so long for the pro wrestlers to get in the ring and pull my son off of him. Investigate that shit. Then you’ll see who the real animals. Yeah, my son took it too far and he was wrong. I don’t condone what my son did. Not only that, if my son didn’t have a concussion, I would’ve whooped his ass when he got home. I would’ve fought Raja for doing that shit. I don’t play that shit.”

Rampage closed by saying, “Even though I’m waiting for Syko Stu to tell his side of the story, I still want to say to Syko Stu’s family, because they are innocent, they didn’t hit anybody upside the head with a can. To your family Syko Stu, I’m sorry you guys had to witness that and you’re going through that. I wish none of it ever happened and I feel bad for what my son did. I hope we can all walk away from this. I hope Syko Stu is healing up fine and I hope nothing like this ever happens again to Syko Stu and his career.”

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