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Jackson, 25, has experience as a professional MMA fighter. The son of MMA royalty, Jackson compiled a 4-0 record on the sport’s amateur scene before turning pro in 2023 and losing his professional lightweight debut in a unanimous decision against Steve Collins at United Fight League 3.<\/p>\n
Jackson’s father, former UFC champ Quinton Jackson, posted a statement late Saturday night claiming that Smith was now “awake and stable,” although Smith’s present health status has yet to be confirmed. The UFC legend said his son’s attack was “a work that went wrong” \u2014 wrestling parlance for a staged fight that unexpectedly became real \u2014 and that Raja “had no business involved in an event like this.”<\/p>\n
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“I don\u2019t condone my son\u2019s actions AT ALL!” the elder Jackson wrote. “He suffered a concussion from sparring only days ago and had no business doing anything remotely close to physical contact. As a father, I’m deeply concerned with his health AND the well being of Mr. Smith.”<\/p>\n
I want to clear up the misinformation about my son Raja. I\u2019ve been confirmed that the wrestler ( Stewart Smith aka Syko Stu) is awake and stable. Raja was unexpectedly hit in the side of the head by him moments before Smith\u2019s match, Raja was told that he could get his \u201cpayback\u201din the ring,i thought it was apart of the show. It was bad judgement, and a work that went wrong. Raja is a MMA fighter not a pro wrestler and had no business involved in an event like this. I don\u2019t condone my son\u2019s actions AT ALL! He suffered a concussion from sparring only days ago and had no business doing anything remotely close to physical contact. As a father, im deeply concerned with his health AND the well being of Mr. Smith. That being said I\u2019m very upset that any of this happened,but my main concern now is that Mr. Smith will make a speedy recovery.I apologize on his behalf and to KICK for the situation.<\/p>\n
Dave Meltzer, famed wrestling historian and founder of the Wrestler Observer Newsletter, stated Saturday night that Jackson’s attack “may be the worst thing I’ve ever seen in a ring.”<\/p>\n
Uncrowned will continue to update this story as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Content warning: The following post contains events that are extremely disturbing. Raja Jackson, the son of former UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,68297,68296,47467,68294,85,68295,68293],"class_list":["post-92012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mr-smith","tag-professional-wrestler","tag-quinton-jackson","tag-raja","tag-sports","tag-stewart-smith","tag-stuart-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92012","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=92012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}