Regardless of video proof that clearly illustrates skilled combined martial arts fighter Raja Jackson assaulting skilled wrestler Stuart Smith (ring title Syko Stu) throughout a Knokx Professional occasion in Los Angeles over the summer time, Jackson pleaded not responsible in court docket on Thursday.
Jackson, son of former UFC gentle heavyweight champion Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson faces a felony battery cost and a misdemeanor battery cost for assaulting Smith in August.
Roughly a month after the altercation, Jackson was arrested in September and launched on $50,000 bail.
Jackson might probably face seven years in jail if convicted. The 25-year-old is due again in court docket Nov. 24 for a preliminary listening to setting in his case.
In video proof, Jackson may be seen getting into the ring, lifting Smith above his head, then slamming him exhausting onto the mat and unloading 23 unanswered punches to wrestler’s head earlier than being forcibly ripped away by a swarm of different wrestlers.
After Stu was hospitalized, his spouse Contessa Patterson offered an replace to the extent of her husband’s accidents.
“Stuart has been launched from the hospital and is now residence resting. He sustained a critical head harm and was unconscious upon arrival on the ER. His accidents embody trauma to each the higher and decrease jaws, a laceration to his higher lip, and a fracture to the maxilla bone, which sadly resulted within the lack of a number of enamel. He has an extended street of restoration forward, however he stays in good spirits regardless of the whole lot he has been by,” Patterson stated.
