Thomson: Bellator offered more money
After four fights in the UFC, with a 1-3 record, Josh Thomson opted to sign with Bellator MMA in liue of staying the UFC. The answer why was simple: money.
After four fights in the UFC, with a 1-3 record, Josh Thomson opted to sign with Bellator MMA in liue of staying the UFC. The answer why is simple: money.
“I didn’t take it personal at all. I looked at the facts, and the facts are I was never released. I was never given a release letter. I was never told I was released. That was it, Thomson told Sherdog.com. I weighed out the options. If you think about it, other guys have fought like three, four, five losses and they haven’t cut them. To think that I just co-main evented their last show and to think that they would cut me seems farfetched given they have so many shows.
They need all the talent they can get, especially top talent like myself. At the end of the day it’s just business. I have no hard feelings whatsoever, despite whatever was said. It doesn’t bother me at all.
Thomson added that it was more than just the ability to avoid the constraints of the Reebok sponsorship deal that made his new Bellator contract appealing.
There’s significant money on the table that Bellator offered me, he said. It was more than the contract that they UFC offered me.
