Bellator MMA held the option to promote a pay-per-view boxing match between Quinton Jackson and boxer Roy Jones, Jr., according to Jackson’s contract with the Viacom-owned promotion.
The contract, obtained by MMAjunkie, specified that Bellator could convert Jackson’s second pay-per-view bout into a boxing match “in lieu of an MMA bout,” and that Jones could be an opponent.
Jackson stood to profit handsomely from a fight with Jones. The contract said the ex-UFC champ would take home one-third (33.3 percent) of the net profits from an event in which he fought the ex-boxing champ.
In July 2013, MMAjunkie reported the Jackson vs. Jones boxing match was targeted for a year-end pay-per-view event. The promotion announced its first foray into pay-per-view with Bellator 106 on Nov. 2 but instead signed UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz to fight Jackson.
Ortiz appeared in the Bellator cage – in a pro-wrestling style reveal – to announce his signing with Bellator. In a subsequent conference call, Jackson said the signing of Ortiz scratched his plans to fight Jones.
“When Tito signed, I went, ‘Damn – there goes my Roy Jones fight,'” Jackson said. “But I think that the Jones fight will come around eventually after Tito and I fight. If everything goes according to plan, I’m sure the fight is going to to happen because Jones is very interested in fighting me.”
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