Rampage Jackson - The Worst Coach in Ultimate Fighter History?

Since Quinton “Rampage” Jackson left the UFC to star as BA Baracus in the upcoming A-Team movie, a ton of theories have been thrown out as to what caused the falling out between him and the organization.

While the theory that Rampage didn’t like Dana White’s trademark “Do you wanna be a (bleeping) fighter?” style of response making Rampage angry after he told White he wanted to star in the movie is valid, it seems like there might be something more at work here.

Rampage, who would have been a solid mma betting favorite over Rashad Evans had their fight gone off this December or January as planned, left Evans high and dry following the show and decided not to fight him while instead pursuing his movie career.

The question many people are asking now is, did something bad happen on The Ultimate Fighter that caused the emotional Rampage to make his exit from the UFC?

Currently on the show, Rampage is 0-4 and losing seems to be killing him considering how competitive he is.

At the same time, however, from what we’ve seen on TV, Rampage deserves the 0-4 record and it wouldn’t surprise many people if he goes 0-8 during the season.

He is the one who used his first pick of fighters on Kimbo Slice, who he could have gotten at least 2-3 picks later since Kimbo isn’t even Evans’ style of fighter or personality (or at least didn’t seem to be at the beginning) anyway.

He’s the one who completely botched the matchups, ending up with Slice against Roy Nelson in a fight Kimbo had virtually no chance of winning due to Nelson’s ground game.

And Rampage also hasn’t done that well of actually coaching them up from what we’ve seen on the show.

When his first fighter, Abe Wagner, was repeatedly taken down in the first fight, all Rampage offered advice-wise was “Get up, Abe!” and other simplistic commands.

Then on the most recent show as Demico Rogers prepared for a pivotal TUF fight against Brendan Schaub, one of the best fighters on Team Rashad, Rampage and his team were off getting food and seemed to appear just a few minutes before the fight.

When Rogers lost a tough one to Schaub while making a few key mistakes despite looking good at the beginning, Rampage offered no consolations after the fight, instead leaving Evans to do it.

All of this has led to an escalation of tensions between Rampage and Rashad and this time it seems legitimate and not manufactured like their run-in in Columbus in the Octagon.

So maybe something big happens with Rampage on the show, whether it’s a blow-up with White or Evans or simply going 0-8 and embarrassing himself for the world to see.

Whatever it is, it makes for even more compelling television, even for this self-proclaimed reality TV hater.