Most Valuable Promotions didn’t manage to satisfy every fighter
on its first MMA card.
Jake
Paul’s MVP hosted its first MMA card last weekend at the Intuit
Dome in Los Angeles,. Jason
Jackson knocked out Jefferson
Creighton just 20 seconds into their welterweight clash on the
card.
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However, Jackson believes he wasn’t appreciated enough while going
into the fight as well as for his performance. The former Bellator
champion believes he didn’t deserve to be on the prelims. While
Jackson had told his friends and family that his fight would be
broadcast on Netflix, the prelims were available for free on
YouTube.
Francis
Ngannou earned the $100,000 “Performance of the Night” bonus
for his first round knockout win over Philipe
Lins. Jackson thinks that was a foregone conclusion with
Ngannou weighing 34 pounds more than Lins. With all respect to
Ngannou, Jackson believes he should have earned the performance
bonus instead of “The Predator.”
Feeling Underappreciated
The most promoted fights on the card were Ngannou vs. Lins,
Nate
Diaz vs. Mike Perry,
and Ronda
Rousey vs. Gina Carano.
Jackson believes the former
UFC fighters were treated better than the rest by MVP. Jackson
is teasing a brief stint in the UFC to make MVP realize his true
worth.
“I didn’t feel like one of the valuable players,” Jackson
said on „The Ariel Helwani Show” “… Little small things
like walking out – I didn’t get an entry… I don’t think I deserved
to be on the prelims on the first place. My credentials hold more
weight than other fighters. And I felt like I deserved the bonus…
No disrespect to Francis but we knew what he was gonna do.
[Francis] was like 30 pounds heavier than [Lins]. And he kind of
struggled a little bit with the guy… I wasn’t feeling the love at
all… I felt disrespected… My fight was on YouTube. I was excited to
compete on Netflix. I told my whole family, everybody… The [ex] UFC
fighters were being treated like the valuable fighters. So maybe I
need to go to the UFC and make a statement and then probably come
back to MVP and show them I am a valuable player.”
Jackson suffered an unfortunate ankle injury in his
Dana White’s Contender Series opportunity in 2017. “The
Ass-Kicking Machine” then went on to build a career in Bellator
where he beat the likes of Benson
Henderson and Neiman
Gracie. Jackson (20-6) is also the only man to beat former
Bellator
MMA champion Yaroslav
Amosov, who is now making headlines in the UFC.