{"id":314386,"date":"2026-04-06T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=314386"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:58:15","slug":"rampage-jackson-says-dana-white-modified-ufc-contract-after-7-million-payday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/rampage-jackson-says-dana-white-modified-ufc-contract-after-7-million-payday\/","title":{"rendered":"Rampage Jackson Says Dana White Modified UFC Contract After $7 Million Payday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2140703\/rampage-jackson-dana-white-changed-ufc-contract-7-million-payday\/\" data-post-title=\"Rampage Jackson Says Dana White Changed UFC Contract After $7 Million Payday\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2140703\">\n<picture id=\"p2924fa7e53b14b5439b4da87b9e82d0c\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/rampage-jackson-says-dana-white-changed-ufc-contract-after-7-million-payday\/intro-1775449566.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/rampage-jackson-says-dana-white-changed-ufc-contract-after-7-million-payday\/intro-1775449566.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Jon P. Kopaloff\/Getty Images<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton &#8220;Rampage&#8221; Jackson claimed that Dana White modified the terms of his contract after he was paid $7 million for his victory over Chuck Liddell in 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jackson knocked out Liddell to capture the Light Heavyweight title on the night, having joined the UFC after it acquired WFA and the contract that promotion held with the fighter. His title win got here in just his second fight in UFC, having avenged a previous PRIDE defeat against Marvin Eastman in his debut three months earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But during a stream with <a href=\"https:\/\/kick.com\/adinross\" target=\"_blank\">Adin Ross<\/a>, Jackson said that his payday for the Liddell fight raised eyebrows with higher-ups, after Ross contested his claim that White doesn&#8217;t wish to pay fighters what they&#8217;re price.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dana don&#8217;t love to pay people what they&#8217;re price,&#8221; Jackson said. That prompted Ross to query him over the $7 million he was imagined to have been paid for the fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once they came upon I made that sort of money, I&#8217;mma say it, I&#8217;mma say it, they modified my contract without me knowing,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;No more after that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he was allowed to make that much to start with, Jackson pointed to the acquisition of WFA:\u00a0&#8220;They bought my contract from one other organization, they weren&#8217;t being attentive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rampage Jackson REVEALS when the UFC &#038; Dana White came upon he made $7,000,000 from his fight vs Chuck Liddell, they CHANGED his contract without him KNOWING \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dana doesn&#8217;t wish to PAY people what they&#8217;re WORTH.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F1Usb8le0S\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/F1Usb8le0S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AdinUpdate (@AdinUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdinUpdate\/status\/2038992922813542772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jackson left UFC on a three-fight losing skid in 2013, starting with a Light Heavyweight title challenge against Jon Jones in 2011, and went on to fight with Bellator while also pursuing a foray into skilled wrestling with TNA. He returned to UFC for one fight during a contract dispute with Bellator in 2015, but returned to Bellator once that issue had been resolved the following 12 months to round out his profession with the now-defunct promotion in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon P. Kopaloff\/Getty Images Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton &#8220;Rampage&#8221; Jackson claimed that Dana White modified the terms of his contract after he was paid $7 million for his victory over Chuck Liddell in 2007.\u00a0 Jackson knocked out Liddell to capture the Light Heavyweight title on the night, having joined the UFC after it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[2765,8733,5330,1840,692,30963,14275,3928,479],"class_list":["post-314386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-changed","tag-contract","tag-dana","tag-jackson","tag-million","tag-payday","tag-rampage","tag-ufc","tag-white"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314389,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314386\/revisions\/314389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}