The build to the ugly occurence began with the stream showing Jackson out back of the building where the wrestlers are hanging out together before the show. There, he is introduced to “Syko Stu.”
“What you don’t know me?” the wrestler said to Jackson.
“Hell nah!” Jackson said.
The wrestler then picked up a beverage can and smashed it on Jackson’s head.
“I don’t play that (expletive)” Jackson said as other wrestlers stepped between them. “I will (expletive) him up.”
Later the stream showed Jackson sitting ringside talking to someone on the phone and explaining that he was supposed to enter the ring and hit “Syko Stu” as part of the match.
“They told me to hit him and leave, somebody would pull off of him,” he said. “I’m telling you; I’m going to hit him as many times as I can. Watch.”
Jackson said on the stream, “They didn’t tell me to fake hit him. They said I could hit him for real.”
Later the stream showed Jackson entering the ring, picking up the wrestler and slamming him hard to the canvas. Stu’s head appeared to slam off the ring and knock him unconscious. Jackson then pounced on top of him and followed with at least 20 punches before wrestlers ran into the ring to pull him off of the downed man.
The video later showed Jackson walking down the street.
“I’m tired of everybody always playing with me and (expletive),” he said. “Always playing and (expletive), calling me (expletive).
“I’m not no (expletive), bro!
Longtime professional wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer reshared a clip of the incident and wrote, “Good lord this may be the worst thing I’ve ever seen in a ring.”
“Based on what I’ve heard, the spot with Raja Jackson at KnokX Pro Wrestling was planned,” Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp wrote on X. “However Raja Jackson knocked the person out — ring name Syko Stu — and followed up with a lot of heavy punches to Syko Stu, which were not planned to do that kind of damage.
“Stu was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries,” he added. “We are working to find out more and have Stu in our thoughts.”
Was it a “work?” If it was, an inpendent promotion just pulled off one of the most disturbing of all-time. Was it a “shoot?” Well, if it was, it will be intersting to see what that means for Raja Jackson.
-Penn Live
