Wanderlei Silva is ready to run it back with ‘Rampage’ Jackson for a fifth and final time.
During a recent appearance on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, ‘Rampage’ expressed an interest in rematching both Rashad Evans and ‘The Axe Murderer’ inside the squared circle after he makes his professional boxing debut against former WBO heavyweight world champion Shannon Briggs on June 1 in Qatar.
“I couldn’t wake up to better news,” Silva said via a video posted by Brazilian journalist Ana Hissa. “My archenemy Quinton Jackson will make his boxing debut and already said he has the intention to do the fifth fight with Wanderlei Silva. I think that’s more than fair because I’ve knocked him out twice, and he beat me twice as well. So we’ll have the fifth fight, in boxing.”
The History of ‘Rampage’ vs. Wanderlei
‘Rampage’ and Silva have faced each other four times across three different promotions dating back to 2003. The first two meetings came under the PRIDE FC banner where Silva scored back-to-back wins over…
