Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, the former UFC light heavyweight champion, recently shared an emotional moment from his career – the only time he cried in the locker room.
This moment, surprisingly, had nothing to do with his own fight.
Jackson opened up about this moment on his podcast, recalling the night at UFC 100.
Witnessing his close friend and teammate, Michael Bisping, suffer a brutal knockout by the right hand of Dan Henderson, left a lasting impact on Jackson:
I never cried, but me and Bisping, we was like brothers, especially back then.
We’re not as close as now because some bulls*it happened between our managers.I never cried when I got knocked out, but when Bisping got knocked out the one time… I cried in the locker room!
He got knocked out that bad, I felt really bad. I’m almost ashamed to say it.
Jackson even thought about if he was partly to blame, as he was one of Bisping’s main training partners at the time:
I felt like, at the time, maybe I didn’t help him good enough in training or something.
It was something like that, and I just felt bad for him.I remember crying in the locker room, like – what the f*ck is wrong with me.
Why am I crying? I never cry, it’s weird.
Rampage Jackson cried when Michael Bisping got knocked out by Dan Henderson pic.twitter.com/9JBapTJTDG
— MMA Mania (@mmamania) December 27, 2023
