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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"I was so happy. I was real calm. Bjorn Rebney just made empty promises. He promised so much and he never followed through. At all... I'm not going into detail, [but it was] things I had battle for in my contract. He says 'no, we're not going to do that.' [I said] 'it's in my contract, you have to.' It came down to the last two weeks before fight and then he finally came through, he had no choice. I would not have fought. There was a contract in place, it's business, I'm not 22 years old anymore. I'm not a young kid struggling to get to the top. I've been to the top, I gotta look out for my best interests as a businessman in this fight game. At the end of the day, it is a business. I've got children to take care of, I've got bills to pay. This is my job, that fight... Scott Coker, I've known him such a long time, he's always been a straight shooter. He's always been very, very respectful towards me. He understands the business. He understands marketing and how to push the fighters to make them superstars in a household environment."
Penick's Analysis: It seems that was a bit of a theme with Rebney, to promise things that they weren't willing to follow through on. World Series of Fighting is facing some similar issues on that front right now, too, but it's definitely one of the many issues fighters were having with the former regime. Of course, a lot of this continues to be said while Rebney is in no position to refute the comments, and Ortiz could simply be piling on without merit as he gives no specifics, but it's also a believable story at this point.
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