'Rampage' likely on UFC 91 card

Despite being currently entangled in the legal system, Quinton Jackson is forging on with his mixed martial arts career.

After losing the title at UFC 86 via a unanimous, but controversial, judges decision, Jackson will likely grace the UFC's first Northwestern card in Portland, Ore. at UFC 91. No opponent has been named for the embattled former champ, but speculation has named Mauricio "Shogun" Rua as a possible draw. Jackson badly lost to Rua in his latter days with the Pride Fighting Championships, falling to strikes in the first round of their 2005 fight. The news comes from a report by Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports after speaking with UFC president Dana White.

Jackson on Tuesday was charged with two felonies and four misdemeanors by the Orange County District Attorney's office for a July 15 hit-and-run incident on the streets of Costa Mesa. If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison. A felony charge related to a female victim of the incident never materialized.

Holli Griggs was a passenger in one of the cars that Jackson sideswiped. Griggs was 16 weeks pregnant with a boy when she miscarried two weeks after the incident. Orange County DA spokeswoman Farrah Emami told MMAWeekly.com that a subsequent investigation of the miscarriage did not implicate Jackson.

"We reviewed all the medical records and spoke with the victim's physician, and the evidence showed that the loss of the fetus was not related to or a result of the crash caused by the defendant."

In comments made to Iole, White said he chose to use Jackson in the midst of his legal woes because his intentions weren't malicious. "If he was doing drugs, if he had been drunk, if he had gone out there and done what he did because he was pissed off at someone, that would be a completely different story. But he was ill. And in this company, we support our friends and anyone who works for us when they're ill and have problems. He was ill, the incident occurred, and now he's fine."

At the UFC 87 pre-fight press conference in Minneapolis, White told reporters that Jackson suffered from "delirium" brought on by days fueled solely by energy drinks and no sleep or food. Jackson made a brief appearance at the event, and in a video blog released by White around UFC 87, but has yet to open up to media about the event and its aftermath.

Jackson's formal arraignment is on Thursday, when his lawyers will post a $25,000 bond to keep him a free man.