{"id":154397,"date":"2025-09-19T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154397\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:07:11","slug":"mma-fighter-raja-jackson-arrested-on-felony-charge-after-assault-of-pro-wrestler-at-august-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154397\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA fighter Raja Jackson arrested on felony charge after assault of pro wrestler at August show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raja Jackson, the son of ex-UFC champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, was arrested on a felony charge in Los Angeles nearly a month after he attacked a pro wrestler at a show<\/a>, L.A. County inmate records show. <\/p>\n

Jackson, 25, was arrested Thursday and is being held on $50,000 bail, according to booking records. It was not immediately clear if Jackson has retained legal representation. <\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Police Department did not immediately respond to a request to confirm that the arrest was in connection with the August assault of wrestler Stuart Smith,<\/a> whose ring name is Syko Stu. <\/p>\n

Video of the incident at a KnokX Pro Wrestling Academy event on Aug. 23 showed Jackson entering the ring during a match and slamming Smith to the mat before mounting his opponent and punching him in the face more than two dozen times, prompting other wrestlers to pull Jackson away. <\/p>\n

Police responded to the event and said at the time that a felony battery report had been submitted, but that no arrests had been made. <\/p>\n

\"RajaRaja Jackson assaults wrestler Syko Stu during a live streamed event. via Kick<\/p>\n

Smith, who was unconscious after the attack, was released from the hospital and was home resting as of an Aug. 31 Facebook post<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He suffered trauma to his jaws, a laceration to his lip, a maxilla bone fracture, and the loss of several teeth after the attack, according to the post, which said Smith had a long road to recovery. <\/p>\n

Smith did not immediately respond on Friday to a request for comment on Jackson’s arrest. <\/p>\n

The assault, which KnokX Pro Wrestling Academy said was not planned, appeared to stem from an incident earlier in the evening. Video showed Smith apparently smashing a can on Jackson’s head, causing Jackson to get angry, but another video appeared to show the pair making up. <\/p>\n

A third video appeared to show another wrestler telling Jackson to give someone a “receipt” \u2014 a legitimate strike or attack, usually as a form of retribution for a wayward spot during a match.<\/p>\n

“What was supposed to be a planned and agreed upon wrestling spot, turned into a selfish, irresponsible act of violence against Mr. Smith,” KnokX Pro Wrestling Academy said at the time. “This egregious act is reprehensible and never should have occurred.”<\/p>\n

Quinton Jackson condemned his son’s actions at the time, calling the incident “bad judgement, and a work that went wrong,” in a post on X<\/a>. The term “work” is used in wrestling to refer to something that is scripted. <\/p>\n

“Raja is a MMA fighter not a pro wrestler and had no business [being] involved in an event like this,” the elder Jackson said. “I don’t condone my son’s actions AT ALL!” He added that he was “very upset that any of this happened.” <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rebecca Cohen<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.<\/p>\n

Rudy Chinchilla contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raja Jackson, the son of ex-UFC champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, was arrested on a felony charge in Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-154397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}