Jackson 'deeply concerned' as son injures wrestler

Ex-UFC champion Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson is "deeply concerned" for a wrestler aft his boy appeared to onslaught and sound him unconscious astatine a wrestling arena successful California.

Stuart Smith - besides known arsenic Syko Stu - was scheduled to conflict astatine a Knokx Pro Wrestling arena which Raja Jackson attended.

Raja Jackson, a 25-year-old master MMA fighter, was progressive successful 2 incidents pinch Smith that were shown connected Kick, a unrecorded streaming platform.

Firstly, Jackson was shown being deed connected his caput extracurricular nan venue by nan erstwhile US service veteran.

Smith was later fighting different force erstwhile Jackson climbed into nan ring, picked him up and slammed him connected to nan canvas, appearing to time off nan wrestler unconscious.

Video shows he past appeared to onslaught Smith many times earlier being pulled disconnected by different wrestlers.

Rampage Jackson later responded connected societal media, external and claimed Smith was "awake and stable".

There has been nary confirmation from nan organisers astir Smith's condition.

In wrestling parlance, a 'work' is simply a conflict that is staged aliases scripted, and Rampage Jackson said this incident was a "work that went wrong".

"Raja was unexpectedly deed successful nan broadside of nan caput by him moments earlier Smith's match," said nan erstwhile UFC ray heavyweight champion.

"Raja was told that he could get his 'payback' successful nan ring. I thought it was a portion of nan show. It was bad judgement."

Jackson snr, 47, besides said his boy had suffered a concussion from sparring "only days ago" and had "no business doing thing remotely adjacent to beingness contact".

"Raja is an MMA fighter, not a pro wrestler, and had nary business progressive successful an arena for illustration this," he added. "I don't condone my son's actions astatine all.

"As a father, I'm profoundly concerned pinch his wellness and nan wellbeing of Mr Smith. I'm very upset that immoderate of this happened, but my main interest now is that Mr Smith will make a speedy recovery."

Rampage Jackson apologised to Smith and to Kick connected behalf of his son, who has had 3 amateur and 2 pro MMA fights.

Knokx Pro is simply a wrestling schoolhouse that has WWE ID designation, meaning WWE will supply it pinch support and opportunity. It has been approached for comment.

Correction: An earlier reference successful this article to Raja Jackson being scheduled to conflict Smith has been removed.