Rampage: 'I'm Not a Sports Fan'

June 07, 2010 Celebrity Highlights

UFC contender Rampage Jackson admits he didn't bring his "A" game to his recent fight against Rashad Evans, in which he lost in three rounds -- partly because of the pressure from his new movie "The A-Team."

"This fight was like so much pressure," Rampage told "Extra's" Terri Seymour. "I never had this much pressure because the movie was coming out. I really wanted to beat [Evans]. I really wanted to beat him."

Rampage stars as B.A. Baracus, the role originated by Mr. T in the TV series, and said being part of the "Team" really meant a lot to him. "I was always a big fan of the 'A-Team,' and I was never a big fan of the sport I fight," he admitted. "I'm not a sports fan. I don't even watch sports. I don't even my watch the sport that I fight in, only when my friends fight."

"'The A-Team' was the only thing that I've truly been a 100 percent die hard fan of my whole life," he continued. "I almost lost my career just for this movie. It was weird I was going through the same thing [his character] B.A. was going through, where I didn't want to fight no more."

Rampage has one big fan, though -- his co-star Sharlto Copley, who plays Murdock. Copley saw Rampage fight and said it was "intense."

"I've never seen anything that scary, seeing that different side of [Rampage] when he came out," Copley said. "That is the most intimating looking face I have ever seen in my life and kind of the energy that is behind that. If he sort of taps into that as an actor, I think it would be quite fascinating."

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