Lorenz Larkin recently suffered a knee injury that will keep him
off the MVP Netflix card. | Dave Mandel
Most Valuable Promotions’ first MMA card has suffered its first
setback.
UFC and Bellator
MMA veteran Lorenz
Larkin announced on Tuesday that he has been forced to withdraw
from the May 16 event slated for the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.
Larkin was scheduled to face former Bellator champ Jason
Jackson in a welterweight bout. It’s currently unknown if a
Jackson will receive a replacement opponent.
Injury Woes
“I’m sorry to all the fans but I had to pull out of the Netflix
card due to knee injury,” Larkin wrote on Instagram Stories. “Will
be rehabing it back to 100% and will be back.”
Larkin, 39, hasn’t competed in MMA since 2024 when he earned a pair
of first-round stoppage victories over Alan
Dominguez and Levan
Chokheli. More recently, “Monsoon” split a pair of bouts under
the Karate Combat banner in 2025.
The 35-year-old Jackson last appeared in the semifinals of the
Professional Fighters League welterweight tournament, where he
dropped a split decision to eventual champion Thad Jean
last June.
Most Valuable Promotions “Rousey vs. Carano” airs on Netflix
and is headlined by a women’s featherweight duel pitting Ronda
Rousey against Gina Carano.
Other featured bouts include a heavyweight clash between Francis
Ngannou and Philipe
Lins and a welterweight tilt between Nate Diaz and
Mike
Perry.