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Michael Jackson Impersonator/Indie Wrestler Santana Jackson Details Las Vegas Fight

by Zak Ralph
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Michael Jackson impersonator/independent wrestler Santana Jackson is no stranger to viral-internet fame. Just last year, Santana demonstrated a perfect fusion of his life as an MJ impersonator and wrestler by prefacing a DDT by carrying his opponent across the ring with a Moonwalk. The Moonwalk DDT would be by over 10 million Twitter users. More recently, Santana would go viral again when a Las Vegas passerby would pick a fight with him, and 2 million and counting would watch Santana gracefully subdue his attacker.

Santana took the time to speak with Zak Ralph of Smark & Friends on Love Wrestling, breaking down the events of the fight.


ON WHAT PROVOKED THE FIGHT
ā€œI don’t even know, honestly. I was just performing. I was just dancing, literally to Smooth Criminal in the white deck. I was just doing my thing and a guy walked up to me. I thought he tried to talk to me, but he hits me. I lean in, and he hits me, instead my hat goes flying. I’m like, ā€˜okay wait a secondā€™, took the glasses off, ā€˜like did you just hit me? Why are you hitting meā€™ and heā€™s still hitting at me, Iā€™m like  ā€˜hey, wait a minute. What do I do to you?!ā€™”

And I’m like, ā€˜come on, you’re not really serious. Are you?ā€™ I’m smiling. I’m trying to calm him down. ā€˜Donā€™t do this. You don’t want to do this. I don’t want to do this to you. I’m not gonna hit you. You hit me several times my face.ā€™ I’m like, alright, now I canā€™t let him hit me no more, but I’m not gonna hit him. I knew something was wrong, he wasnā€™t coherent. I know he might have been drunk or on something, or whatever it was. I just felt like I didnā€™t want to punch this guy, I didnā€™t want to hurt this guy.I’m gonna put him down and restrain him and hold him, Iā€™ll hold them. If I have to put him to sleep, Iā€™ll put him to sleep.

ON SUBDUING THE ATTACK
“I just kind of held him, and restrained him enough so that way he wasn’t yanking on my hair anymore. Like I squeezed for a bit so he would let go of my hair and he let go, and I was able to hold his arm and I just held him down. Like I said I was trying not to hurt the guy. I was working different moves. As I was on top of him. I was gonna go for an armbar, but I decided not to, because I figured the way he was acting, if I went for an armbar, I’m gonna have to break his arm. That wasn’t something I wanted to do.

And then I was like, I’ll go for the triangle, but I wasn’t sure if he’s gonna start biting me or something stupid like that. So I just figured okay, let’s just go straight for it a headlock here. I twisted his head the other way, so I went to get him to lay flat. That’s what my hand went underneath this way, turning his head, and I was able to get underneath him. And basically, I was just defending myself. I wasn’t trying to hurt the guy I wanted him to maybe seek some help, maybe. But I definitely wasn’t trying to hurt him. Like if I was trying to hurt him it would have been a whole different story. I mean, yeah, I’ve learned a lot of different things in different places. I know how to put them all together.ā€

Our full conversation with Santana Jackson airs Friday on YouTube

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Please credit Zak Ralph of Smark & Friends or Zak Ralph of Love Wrestling with all transcriptions and please link back when possible.

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