MEMPHIS – When Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney lost the main event of his first pay-per-view for the second time, there could have been a freak-out moment, and understandably so. This past fall, Bellator planned its first pay-TV show. But when Tito Ortiz fell out of a fight against Quinton Jackson late in the game, the promotion scrapped its plans to go on pay-per-view and shifted the card to its regular broadcast partner, Spike TV, with a headlining lightweight title rematch between Michael Chandler and Eddie Alvarez. This past Saturday, it was Alvarez who fell off the main event of the promotion’s second attempt at a pay-per-view, bowing out of his trilogy fight with Chandler thanks to a concussion. But this time, Rebney said the depth of Saturday’s Bellator 120 event allowed the promotion to move forward on pay-per-view rather than again scrapping that plan to move to Spike TV
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Bjorn Rebney: ‘Monster amount of depth’ kept Bellator 120 a pay-per-view – MMA Junkie