I was at that show.
Rampage is pretty mellow these days. I remember when he showed up at Ihas gym the first time with his friend Dave. Dave may have been the dumbest guy I ever met anywhere. Lol
The guy videoing Rampage was Kenny Knoll. He and Rampage had a falling out and Kenny kept all the footage and never released any of it.
Im not willing to do all that rape and murder.
I think I was at that fight
“Cheddar Dick” It’s too bad you have to make everything about race. You liberal pussy
oh for fuck sake
Sergeant Slaughter’s back again.
Pretty sure you were. I remember telling my buddy who drove down there with me that you were the guy who banged just about every porn chick there was.
herpes, genital warts, HIV, Hep C, etc etc.
Seems like Rampages has a falling out with just about everyone…
I have/had the picture of the car that Rampage hit on his high speed chase.
No way was the women hurt in that accident.Didn’t even knock the rear view mirror all the way off.
Weird assumption.
Rampage home in Irvine.
Its almost like hes a piece of shit.
Rampage is cool by me. I helped him train for his last fight and he hasnt changed from who he is. If anything he is humbled.
There were like what 15 fights? Of the ones I remember, my friend who fought and got disqualified for using elbows. They said nothing about it in the rules meeting so he was pissed. Shannon fought and lost quickly. I think Doug Evans fought. Joe Camacho fought a wrestler I knew named Fred Levy. Travis Fulton fought John Ivey. Oh and I think Nam Pham fought too. When I got there my old buddy Heath Sims saw me and was just getting into mma around then. It was an interesting time in mma. I also remember the “mat” in the cage was like trying to grapple on tile.
The promoters were really cool though. They moved to Lake Havasu and ran a few shows there and I don’t know what happened to them.
I would love to see that footage if he still had it. You definitely couldn’t get away with that kind of shit now, but to a couple of 19 year old kids we thought it was the funniest thing ever. I wonder if Anderson remembers this or not.
Promoters were truly awesome people. I remember his name was Chuck. Nam Phan fought, and yes to all the others you remember. Yes. The rules meeting was incredibly strange. Basically they decided that for insurance reasons or due to it being in sanctioned or something that no closed fists or kicks to the head were allowed. Also no elbows and no knees. Then the fights began and only a few of us followed the rules. In all honesty, my opponent seems like a standup guy. I think he is my FB friend or something. Nice enough guy. It was a strange experience competing in that show, but it was really not the promoters fault. It was more of an issue with the venue and the State.
The rules meeting was strange. I don’t remember them saying you couldn’t elbow, but it was a long time ago. Maybe there was some technicality about it. But the show wasn’t bad, and it really was typical for what most shows were like, or what MMA was like back then. I don’t know if MMA was fully legalized in CA either. I remember Heath saying they had to hold some fights under the guise of shooting a movie so it wouldn’t run afoul of the law. It was definitely interesting.
I met Rampage a few times. At a Indian Casino in a tiny town in Northern California back in the early to mid 90’s they had a BADASS card. Daijiro Matsui was on it, I remember tha but I don’t remember who he fought. Ronnie Jhun from Hawaii (we had friends in common so I hung out with him for minute) Gil Castillo (Gracie JJ) fought Lion’s Den Joe Hurley. Sean Sherk beat up some poor guy, Marvin Eastman fought Vernon White and Rampage fought…some guy that I swear they got out of the crowd. HUGE white dude. The announcer made it all dramatic “standing SIX FOOT FIVE…”. IIRC he fought in jorts. Huge dude. Rampage beat the fuck out of him in like a minute. He was already sporting the huge chain and doing the wolf howl even back then. After the event he was funny, but not the over the top crazy funny personna that he would ultimately develop.
where was this