Manager outlines Rampage's issues with Bellator

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                                Manager outlines Rampage's issues with Bellator

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                    <p>There are a lot of rumors over what has happened with the Bellator split, so I would like to give the key points to the dispute to avoid confusion. Quinton Jackson ended his contract with the UFC at the beginning of 2013 with the Glover [Teixeira] fight. We then entered into negotiations with several promotions one of them being Bellator under Bjorn Rebney. Bellator was a fairly new Viacom entity and Bjorn used this position to attempt to construct a very interesting and lucrative deal. Bjorn included in the deal a Bellator contract, a Paramount movie deal, a Spike TV reality show provision and a TNA pro wrestling contract. This in effect created an entertainment contract instead of the normal fight contract. In hindsight I think that Bjorn was over zealous with the Viacom networks&#39; assistance he could rely on. Bjorn also submitted a significant pay-per-view model that was crucial to the deal.</p>

The first nine months was fraught with multiple problems but we considered them to be startup issues in a new way of doing business. The Tito Ortiz fight was cancelled and Bjorn persuaded us to enter into a tournament to promote the King Mo fight, culminating in a PPV fight with King Mo. The PPV was not successful for our payment structure and we immediately informed Bjorn that the problems had grown too many and that we wished to restructure our position. Bjorn was removed as CEO within two weeks of this position. We were expecting a meeting on the Wednesday with him. On the Tuesday morning we found out in the press that he was gone.

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If true, sounds like they had every right to do what they did. And if Bjorn was involved, you know that contract was all sorts of fucked up Phone Post 3.0

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Bjorn, you can tell he's a good guy, he's just got that energy you know? Phone Post 3.0

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I wonder if this exact contract was a big reason Bjorn was fired.

Seems like he made loads of ridiculous promises on behalf a Viacom. Phone Post 3.0