{"id":97173,"date":"2025-08-26T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97173\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:14:08","slug":"fellow-hothead-sean-strickland-argues-raja-jackson-shouldnt-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97173\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow hothead Sean Strickland argues Raja Jackson \u2018shouldn\u2019t go to jail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of people have a lot of opinions on Raja Jackson\u2019s brutal assault and hospitalization<\/a> of pro wrestler Syko Stu (real name Stuart Smith). Many are calling for Quinton \u201cRampage\u201d Jackson\u2019s son \u2014 who is 4-0 as an amateur<\/a> and 0-1 in pro MMA \u2014 to be charged with attempted murder. But former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland has an extremely different outlook: he\u2019s hoping Raja doesn\u2019t end up serving time at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cJackson\u2019s kid shouldn\u2019t go to jail,\u201d Strickland wrote on X (formerly Twitter). \u201cPrison should always be a last resort.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was arrested at 19 for two Felony A GBIs [Great Bodily Injuries],\u201d he explained. \u201cI would of spent 5 to 6 years in prison if the DA had its way. After 6 years in a cell coming out with nothing, being indoctrinated with gangs and violence, I guarantee I would of killed someone. There was one guy telling me about how he picked up a murder charge and I remembered being impressed by him. That would of been my future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead I plead and took 100 days jail or work release. A ton of anger management and a decent amount of victim restitution. After a miserable two years of court. Luckily a lawyer took my case for free because I didn\u2019t have a dollar to my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strickland is known for holding some pretty hardline positions, but this one is likely to surprise a lot of his supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cBottom line is it\u2019s not about the person in prison,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIts about who they become when they\u2019re out of prison, and I believe if I wasn\u2019t offered that deal I would be dead today and more than likely would of resulted in someone else\u2019s death as well. My two cents \u2026 rehabilitation over prison always.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were some differences between Strickland\u2019s situation and Jackson\u2019s. According to \u201cTarzan,\u201d he acted in self defense but used excessive force.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my case I was sued and had to pay victim restitution,\u201d he said when asked about justice for the victim.<\/p>\n

Response to his position on X was overwhelmingly negative, with many pointing out that Sean had repeatedly assaulted people since those earlier experiences. He\u2019s currently on suspension<\/a> for storming the cage at an MMA event and attacking a fighter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat people don\u2019t understand by not trying to rehabilitate these people you are making many more victims in the future,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cStuart is conscious and does have some recollection of the events from the day of the attack,\u201d his brother Andrew wrote on Facebook. \u201cHe\u2019s currently resting and says, \u2018Thank you for the love and support.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot of people have a lot of opinions on Raja Jackson\u2019s brutal assault and hospitalization of pro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-97173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}