Don’t be surprised if Jason Jackson heads into his next fight with a little extra motivation and a chip on his shoulder. Jackson (18-5) will be one of three former Bellator champions who are part of the eight-man tournament field for the 2025 PFL welterweight season. Andrey Koreshkov and Logan Storley join him as ex-Bellator champs, and likely tournament favorites, in the field. Jackson’s motivation will come from the fact he has to call himself a former Bellator titleholder to begin with. He knocked out Yaroslav Amosov to win the belt in November 2023 in what was Bellator’s final event under old management. Once Bellator was snatched up by the PFL, plenty of publicized internal changes started taking place