'Syko Stu' did not want to press charges against Raja Jackson

Raja Jackson, son of former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, was arrested last week for his brutal attack on professional wrestler ‘Syko Stu,’ whose real name is Stuart Smith.

Jackson brutally attacked the professional wrestler at a KnokX Pro Wrestling event last month delivering an estimated 22 punches to Smith as he was sprawled out on the canvas unconscious. Wrestler Doug Malo, AKA “Doug the Epic,” intervened pulling Jackson off Smith. Smith was transported to a hospital suffering from facial fractures, broken teeth, and head trauma.

Jackson faces felony charges taken up by the state. Smith did not want to press charges Malo confirmed on Scaling Up Podcast.

“There was enough evidence on video where they don’t need anybody to press charges,” Malo said. “With ‘Stu,’ like from the beginning, I said he mostly likely won’t want to press charges. That’s where we’re left at. I don’t want to speak for him, but from what I know, that’s the case (he didn’t want to press charges).

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Jackson was released from custody on a $50,000 bail. “Hopefully Raja getting bailed out means he’ll get checked into a mental health care, or some type of before trial,” Malo said. 

“I think that’s a big issue that needs to be addressed, his trauma because he wasn’t there that day. His eyes, his everything. Plus, the fact that you were able to be pushed into that shows some type of mental capacity that you could be almost pushed into murdering somebody,” Malo continued. “That’s a fragile state of mind.”

“Let’s say he goes in there (prison), he gets out, he gets mental treatment. He could actually come out and help other people not do what he did and be a force for good at that point.”

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