Professional wrestling is supposed to be, as they say in the business, a “work.”
Not real, in other words, or at least pre-determined. However, Raja Jackson, son of UFC legend Rampage Jackson, went off-script at a Knokx Pro Wrestling event in Sun Valley, CA in August 2025, slamming and beating Syko Stu (Stuart Smith) unconscious in a premeditated attack that was also live streamed.
The assault left Smith with multiple facial injuries that required a hospital stay. Raja was later arrested.
Now, Jackson has reached a plea agreement with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, per a report by The New York Post.
Jackson, who launched the assault after Smith mistook him for another wrestler and engaged him physically, later apologizing, pleaded no contest to one felony count of battery with serious bodily injury at a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.
He’s expected to face a sentence of 90 days actual county jail; restitution of $81,703.38; and two years formal probation, per the District Attorney’s Office.
Overall, the sentence seems rather lenient given Jackson landed 20 or more undefended punches on an unconscious Smith. That led some to call for an attempted murder charge to be filed against the second-generation mixed martial artist.
Jackson had been at the event to work an angle, but after the early altercation with Smith, admitted to followers on live stream that he would take revenge – despite accepting Smith’s apology and shaking his hand not long before the eventual assault.
The incident was live streamed on KICK.
In September, Rampage Jackson revealed that he was no longer on speaking terms with his son.
“I don’t talk to Raja no more,” Jackson told “The Ariel Helwani Show” at the time. “I talked to him, I heard his story and I heard some stuff and then after I learned a whole lot of stuff about it.”
“He dishonored my name,” Jackson added. “I know he’s my f*cking son. I’m not cutting him off for forever. I just haven’t talked to him.”
