Doug Malo Provides Health Update On Syko Stu & Claims LAPD Is Building A Case Against Raja Jackson
As noted before, Raja Jackson, son of former UFC fighter Quintin “Rampage” Jackson, was involved in an incident over him legit assaulting a pro wrestler named Syko Stu, real name Stuart Smith, at an event on August 23rd for KnokX Pro Wrestling. Stu was released from the hospital this past Sunday and has been resting and recovering at his home.
A recent episode of the Scaling Up podcast featured indies and former KnokX Pro wrestler Douglas Malo as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Malo’s thoughts about if he believes that Jackson will be getting arrested for his attack on Stu.
“There is not a doubt in my mind. Everything is on tape and on video. It is premeditated. LAPD tends to drag their feet. The detective asked me a bunch of questions. I even asked about my implications. He goes, ‘There is nothing to worry about.’ He was just trying to get compliance. Everything is towards Raja. He asked a couple of other questions about other videos and people in the back. Not for implication, just because he’s trying to get information. He’s building a solid case. I talked to a detective friend of mine outside of the case about formalities and what I should look at and what not to look at. He was saying this is how LAPD work, they drag their feet. They’re building their case to get all the evidence. The state is going to pick it up because there are so many people and witnesses. My little brother saw it. My girlfriend, my mom, all the people there. They have enough evidence to try the case. What they’re trying to figure out is what level of premediation, from my understanding. They’re trying to figure out what conversations took place, what conversations mean. He was asking me what specific terms mean exactly and what they mean to the person they are telling them to. It’s so there. I don’t want to speculate or say anything else. It’s all there.”
Malo also gave his thoughts clarifying recent comments he made to TMZ about Jackson shouldn’t go to jail and joked that he would take a $1 million payoff from Rampage.
“I felt, at the time, there was so much going into that. This kid is so volatile that he should have never been put in that situation. The guy who brought him there was supposed to be his coach and mentor. If I were somebody’s coach or mentor, I would never in my life allow them to be in any type of danger to themselves, their livelihoods, their families. I’m responsible for this person. He shouldn’t have a max jail sentence over this because there are so many moving pieces involved. I have a little bit of compassion. He’s put in this bad situation. He’s hyped up and have all these moving pieces. Nobody wanted to be an adult and have a better conversation than what took place. A sentence that is substantial but not overdoing it with a mandatory, ‘You can’t have parole or anything early until you have a mandatory health evaluation and therapy program.'”
Malo also provided an update on Stu’s recovery from the injuries he suffered from Jackson’s attack and if Stu is aware of what has been happening.
“When you have a head injury, you can’t stress that person. Depending on where he’s at in recovery, they have to break it to him slowly. If you’re hearing that he doesn’t know exactly what’s happening, that’s the doctor’s orders. Any stress, anything that causes him sadness, anger, grief or any of those things can set him back mentally. He’s going to be in a state of fog. When you already have PTSD and trauma, and now you’re adding another traumatic event, it’s the perfect storm for all type of bad things to happen. The whole goal is a full recovery. I do know that he knows the events because some of the people that shouldn’t have been in that hospital room, and gave his family space, showed up to the hospital room and showed him stuff that he wasn’t supposed to see.”
Transcript h/t: Fightful.com
Current Card for Thursday’s TNA Impact! Live Show
TNA Wrestling recently announced the current card for tonight’s live TNA Impact! show on September 4th at The Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Current card for September 4th TNA Impact! show:
- TNA Knockouts World Championship #1 Contender Three-way match – Indi Hartwell v. Jody Threat v. Dani Luna
- Six-Person Tag Team match – The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) & Mara Sadé vs. Order 4 (Tasha Steelz & The Great Hands (John Skyler & Jason Hotch))
- Moose v. AJ Francis
- Ash by Elegance TNA Knockouts World Championship celebration
- Nick Nemeth to return
Current Card for Thursday’s ROH TV Show
Ring of Honor recently announced the current card for tonight’s ROH TV show on HonorClub.
Current card for September 4th ROH TV show:
- The Conglomeration (Tomohiro Ishii & Hologram) vs. Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese)
- The Swirl (Blake Christian & Lee Johnson) vs. mystery opponents
- Spanish Announce Project (Serpentico & Angelico) vs. mystery opponents
- Katsuyori Shibata vs. Jordan Oliver
- Wheeler Yuta vs. John Silver
- ROH Women’s World Champion Athena vs. mystery opponent
- Lance Archer vs. mystery opponent
Misc. Wrestling News & Notes
Wednesday’s CMLL Informa show featured the announcement of Mina Shirakawa and Zeuxis being revealed as the first two official competitors for this year’s Women’s Grand Prix match.
CMLL also announced that Zeuxis will be making her return from a torn meniscus injury at this Friday’s Super Viernes event at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.
DDT Pro Wrestling recently announced that Tetsuya Endo will be making his return to the company from his infinite leave of abscense at their Ultimate Party 2025 event on November 3rd in Tokyo, Japan.
WrestleCade recently announced that former WWE talent Brad Maddox will no longer be making an appearance at their WrestleCade Weekend 2025 event on November 28-30 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina due to reasons beyond their and Maddox’s control.
In a recent interview with Bild, Stardom talent Bozilla gave her thoughts about how she was originally only supposed to be with Marigold for three months but it turned into a year for her time with the company. Bozilla stated “When I was training in Canada, the management of Marigold, the new league founded by STARDOM founder Rossy Ogawa, wrote to me. The plan was for three months, but it turned into a year. Even though not everything went as promised, I’m very proud of that time: strong matches, valuable experiences, and great moments.“
In a recent interview with The Wrestling Rewind podcast, Leon Slater gave his thoughts about his belief that his match against “Speedball” Mike Bailey for the TNA X-Division Championship in October of 2024 ended up being the turning point for his star rise in TNA. Slater stated “That’s a real good question, man. I think there’s arguably a couple of points where you could kind of say it turned around. Maybe the earliest point, though, was my match against Speedball Mike Bailey last October, I think it was. I think that was my first or second… I think it was my first. It was my first shot at the X Division Championship and we tore the house down, man. You know what I mean? Like we had a killer match. I think up until that point, I’d been like, yeah, the young kid on the roster, like he- like he can do some cool stuff. Yeah, he might be good one day. Then at least from where I’ve, where I’ve kind of experienced it and seen it after that Speedball match, people started to take me a little bit more seriously.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Homecoming Los Angeles event on September 20th in Los Angeles, California:
- Steel Cage match – KJ Orso vs. Sam Stackhouse
GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their EVIL DE3DS event on September 12th in Detroit, Michigan:
- Matt Tremont & The Bev vs. The Cogar Brothers (Atticus & Otis Cogar)
Major League Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Fightland 2025 event on September 13th in North Richard Hills, Texas:
- Lightning match – Satoshi Kojima vs. Mr. Thomas
Action Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their D3AN!!! event on September 6th at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
- ROH Pure Championship – Josh Woods vs. Lee Moriarty (c)
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