Quinton “Rampage” Jackson Reversing an order granted two weeks ago, a New Jersey judge said Bellator MMA failed to prove it would suffer “irreparable harm” if Quinton Jackson fought at Saturday’s UFC 186. Judge John Kennedy, a judge for the Superior Court of New Jersey’s appellate division, dismissed Bellator’s claim that Jackson’s defection would encourage other fighters to “ignore their contract” and caused damage via “negative chatter” on social media. “These assertions, in our view, are nothing other than vague speculation that does not warrant the extraordinary remedy of a preliminary injunction,” Kennedy wrote in an order – obtained today by MMAjunkie and viewable here – that greenlights the ex-champ’s co-headliner Saturday at UFC 186, which takes place at Bell Centre in Montreal. Jackson will meet Fabio Maldonado in a 215-pound catchweight fight. The bout is his first appearance in the UFC’s octagon since January 2013, when he lost his third straight fight in a meeting with Glover Teixeira. Kennedy’s ruling reversed a portion of a ruling handed down by chancery court judge Karen L.
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