Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has made some serious allegations against Dana White and the UFC after he revealed during a podcast episode with MMA veteran Ken Shamrock that he was not paid for the one million PPV buys that UFC 114 did, despite the contract stating so.
Singing the same tune was Ken Shamrock, the latest guest of the Jaxxon podcast, who also accused the UFC of lying about the PPV numbers to save their money and avoid paying the fighter from the revenue earned through PPV sales.
Rampage Jackson got paid much less than he could have earned for UFC 114
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson took on Rashad Evans in a grudge match in the UFC 114 headliner, which also featured Michael Bisping and Dan Miller in the co-main event.
In the highly anticipated encounter, Evans got the better of Rampage in the very first round in a rare non-title UFC PPV. Such was the magnitude of the fight that despite a lackluster undercard, even for that time, it managed to do more than a million PPV buys.
But as it turns out, Rampage Jackson earned nothing from the sales, despite his contract stating that he would receive a much higher salary if the PPV crossed the one-million mark. According to Tapology, UFC 114 sold 1,050,000 million PPV buys on the historic night. But according to Jackson, White told him it did not hit the million mark but told the media otherwise.
“When I fought Rashad Evans, I had a crazy contract. If I get over a million buys, my pay-per-view all the way up here. So, they told me we did just under a million buys. But in the press, he said that we did over a million buys. And I told him, ‘Pay me like you told the press,’ so I don’t know, but I got paid like we didn’t hit a million. That’s not fair.” Jackson said to Ken Shamrock.
Rampage’s revelation came right after Ken Shamrock’s story about how he was cheated of money for his fight against Tito Ortiz.
“There was a number I was supposed to hit, and I crushed it. And I was told, we just missed it by one or two buys, so stupid…” Shamrock revealed. “I found out what the real numbers were, and that’s when it was a problem for me. That point on, it was where my troubles began.”
Shamrock alleged that the UFC lied about PPV buys and did not pay him. Check out the entire conversation here.
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