Rampage Jackson reveals spy???

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MusclePharm Executive VP Leonard Armenta resigns in wake of UFC 135 'Spy Gate' accusations from Rampage Jackson




The UFC 135 "Spy Gate" fiasco has taken a very ugly turn.

What started as pre-fight hype between Quinton Jackson and Jon Jones, who square off tomorrow night (Sept. 24, 2011) at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, may have forced MusclePharm Executive Vice President Leonard Armenta to resign from his job.

That's because "Rampage" claims to have outed the "spy" on ESPN's SportsCenter earlier today, according to his recent Twitter post:

QUINTON wrote:

I just outed the spy on Sport Center,its come on top who he is but out of respect 2 #mucslepharm I won't tweet his name,he's done f$8^ em!

As expected, that didn't sit well with "Bones," who blames Jackson's "paranoia" for the exec's downfall:

Jon Jones wrote:

Sucks some poor guy at musclepharm got fired over rampages paranoia

MusclePharm is a major sponsor to many of today's top mixed martial arts fighters and recently renewed its contract with the UFC for another two years. It even has its own facility in Denver where Rampage has been training.



It all started when Jackson made up a bogus story about hurting his hand -- but didn't tell anyone except those closest to him inside his camp. Lo and behold, UFC matchmaker Joe Silva was on the horn shortly thereafter, asking questions about the phony injury.

Jackson elaborates to Yahoo Sports:

"One of my friends was talking to Jon Jones’ manager recently, and Jon Jones’ manager was saying that he knows everything that is going on in our camp. He said he had spies in our camp and he knew everything that was going on. That got me thinking. How did he know about my hand injury that fast? It wasn’t on the Internet, and yet he knew about my hand injury right away. The UFC people were in Brazil, which is why it probably took them four hours to call me. That shows me two things: They have spies in my camp, one, and two, they’re dumb as hell, because they didn’t know how to use the information correctly and to wait. He called right away, running to Joe Silva. Joe Silva called my manager right away. Of course they’re going to say they aren’t doing it, but we’ll put the story out there to the fans and let them decide."

Was Leonard Armenta the spy? Was there a spy at all? No one knows for sure, but Rampage claims to have "outed" him on SportsCenter and the fact that Armenta resigned back on Sept. 16 doesn't exactly weigh in his favor.

Alright Maniacs, let's get some reactions to this news. Much ado about nothing? Or an unfortunate situation that has spiraled completely out of control?

The Sauce

Here is the video. It clearly is Leonard.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:7008199

yeah I saw that interview and Rampage clearly says Leonard twice and Jones says I don't know a Lennex. Just a weird situation that whenever it's brought up.... and it's brought up A LOT! Jones seems to stutter. I don't really care if Jones is guilty of it or not, but there seems to be evidence that there was a spy.

hahaha that damn rat gets me everytime

At this point if jones had half a brain he'd just admit it and say oh well you caught me can't blame a guy for trying instead of constantly making himself look worse with his sad attempts at denial.

Whatever. Rampage could use Jones as a training partner, it's not going to change the outcome of the fight. Rampage got punked by Forrest on the ground, what do you think Jones is going to do?? This fight is going to be hilarious.

I think Rampage planted a double agent spy who was really working for Rampage but making it look like Jones hired him..... Well played Rampage ... Well played...

hahaha...thank you for saying it DEP! Agreed 100%

yeah good point about the Forrest fight, Jones is so much more agressive on the ground. Rampage only hope would be that Jones gets tired and Rampage can capitalize on Jones being gassed. I doubt Jones has the gas tank like Forrest, but I don't think we will see it past round 3