It looks like the worst-case scenario has happened for Bellator ahead of their planned November 2 pay-per-view debut, the main event "superfight" between Tito Ortiz and Quinton Jackson appears to be off. Tito suffered a neck injury that has forced him out of the bout, according to MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani.
More on the situation from MMA Fighting:
Bellator is currently seeking a replacement for Ortiz, and it is unclear at this time whether Jackson will remain on the Nov. 2 card. There is a chance next weekend's pay-per-view card turns into a Spike show with Jackson being moved to another event.
Tito had tweeted out a picture that said "I know everything happens for a reason, but sometimes I wish I knew what that reason was," along with his own words of "Sometimes I wonder why?" earlier in the day.
If they do somehow change from a PPV to a Spike card this late it becomes a really exciting Spike TV card.
But this did seem somewhat predictable, didn't it?
Um.. I think that the dude that has put himself hurt or not sometimes through almost 30 big pro and main event fights with a documented case of neck and back problems having a real injury is more likely then a August fan blog on bleacher report offering nothing but opinionated speculation, not real numbers or data, being the reason Tito is not fighting.
More shady BS fro, Bellator now? They see this thing is about to bomb which would hurt all future Alvarez like contract disputes. They can not let that happen the entire point was to make sure it did good enough buys to maintain some leverage in those situations. I also love how they do not feel that there 3 championship fights have enough value to do a PPV
It its true Tito just sunk Bellators battleship.
This will be the beginning of the end Viacom will only spend so much.
That's great if it's a free card now. I watch every Bellator card and I wasn't about to cough up $35 to watch this PPV . I mean no disrespect in saying so, it's just not top notch competition all the way around in compared to the UFC.
Side-note...(I do think Michael Chandler could fight for the UFC belt right now though)
Hope this link works... But apparently Rebney has said that Alvarez will still get his PPV bonus. Doesn't really make sense, but they'll probably just pull some number outta their ass.
This is a good move for bellator in the end. The ppv would have failed as we all know. who knows if Tito is injured or not. tito is about as fake as they come.
In Tito's defence, he has hardly baled out of many fights before has he? His problem is he fought with stupid injuries before and funked himself up further.
The guy needs to retire his body is a mess from all the surgeries. You can't have dudes hanging off your neck and be grappling training with fusion neck surgery and back surgeries. Hell I can't do it and I just have a few vertebrae that are a just bit wonky. In 20 years, he is going to be in a terrible state.
This is awesome. The only fight on the card I could care less about was Tito vs Rampage. Now instead of having to pay to see a fight a didn't want to see, just to see fights I did want to see, I can now get the actual fights I wanted to see for free.
Dana White must be laughing his balls off, that Bellator's first PPV gets squashed by his Favorite Guy, Tito Ortiz.
This is awesome news. The best of the week. Of course, it's not like I would have actually paid to see it either way, but at least now I can watch it live.
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