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Rampage will get rude awakening in boxing - White

ESPN staff
October 11, 2011
Rampage Jackson feels opponents will be more willing to stand and trade with him in boxing © Getty Images
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UFC president Dana White has warned Rampage Jackson that the grass is not always greener on the other side, as the former light-heavyweight champion weighs up a move to boxing.

Jackson, who was beaten by Jon Jones in his most recent outing, thinks he is better suited to boxing because his opponents are more likely to stand with him and trade blows.

But White has sounded a note of caution, claiming Jackson should be careful what he wishes for. "I know nothing about Rampage boxing," he said to mmaweekly.com. "He's under contract. He's not boxing until… I mean, if he wants to box when his contract is up, that's up to him.

"You hear [boxing promoter] Bob [Arum] saying: 'They don't pay their guys anything.' Rampage got paid a lot of money for his last fight, trust me. Bob Arum pays guys $600 on his cards, and we've never paid a guy that. We've only been around ten years, Bob's been promoting fights for 120 years.

"He'll find out when he starts boxing that [running] is pretty much the game these days. The game is: Let's step in there and do everything we can do avoid a fight, so we can get on to the next payday.

"No matter where you are, what you do, you're always going to have guys chirping about something. Rampage thought the movie business was the answer to his dreams - that didn't work out too good.

"The pay over there wasn't what he thought it was, the pay over here is a lot better. A lot better. The grass is always greener until it's not there any more, and then you realise you made a lot of mistakes and you should have done things differently."

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