Chael Sonnen believes Laja Jackson’s role on virus attacks against Los Angeles professional wrestlers needs to be slowed down.
On his son, the son of former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, he blew the internet after a LiveStramed Knokx Pro Wrestling event in Sun Valley.
The incident reportedly stemmed from a behind-the-scenes altercation an hour ago when Smith mistaked Jackson for another wrestler. After Smith hit Jackson with a beer can over his head, the two were separated before waving and proceeding another path.
Shortly afterwards, Jackson slid into the ring during the match, picking up Smith from his foot, causing him to slam hard into the canvas. Jackson then unleashed 23 full force punches on the already unconscious wrestler.
Since the incident, social media users have been asking Jackson to be arrested. Meanwhile, Sonnen believes there is more to the story than the footage suggests.
“I’ve just seen an episode of Scarface, so I can’t arrest Al Pacino to sell cocaine and carve people with machetes,” Sonnen said on his YouTube channel. “As an audience where the show ends and where real life begins, you can’t decide that real life begins as an audience because great workers don’t have the ability to fool you. And I’ll go. Yeah, John Cena did that.
“What you’ve explained up until now is every wrestler on the card that night, and whether they won or lost the match, all wrestlers were attacked by their opponents.
“The controlled work shot is what they call this. Raja was throwing potatoes. But your idea that there is all the evidence you need and you can prove the idea that you can escalate this from the attack to the attempted murder, all the evidence you need, you have Raja himself told his live stream to his live stream, so he is asking for him to ask for a beer.
The Los Angeles Police Department is actively investigating the attacks, but no warrants or arrests have been made so far.
“You’ll get really good actors on the 90-day movie set, and it’s a Western movie, all of a sudden they came out and they’re done,” Sonnen continued. “They went home and they were talking to Twang, so they just forgot. Yeah, I’ve been doing this for 90 days.
“And when you have a good worker, and Raja is natural and the absolute best thing he can do to get a character is to sell it to you. The problem is that you start selling it to yourself. And it’s an accident. It’s an accident. You start selling it to yourself.”