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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.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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