SAN JOSE, Calif. – If 50 Cent has any desire to fight in MMA, Bellator President Scott Coker isn’t telling.

50 Cent showed up to Bellator 199 on Saturday night with an entourage that included Coker, who escorted him to his cageside seat. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn’t be a big deal. Celebrities attend fights all the time.

But 50 Cent walked into SAP Center on this night under anything but normal circumstances after rumors surfaced last week of the rapper/actor/businessman signing a deal with Bellator to fight Quinton Jackson.

The rumors came on the heels of a publicized meeting between Coker and 50 Cent, then ramped up after a mini-war of words on social media between 50 Cent and “Rampage.”

Asked after Bellator 199 if an announcement regarding 50 Cent needed to be made, Coker deadpanned.

“Yeah, he’s got a new album dropping in about six weeks,” Coker said.

Then he got serious.

“I’ll go back to the first time we met,” Coker said. “He wanted to talk about MMA. And there were some pictures taken, people speculate. I don’t know where he said he was going to fight a three-fight deal – I don’t even think he said it. I think somebody else started that rumor: ‘He’s going to fight, he’s going to fight a three-fight deal, then he’s going to fight ‘Rampage.”

“It’s like, look, he loves MMA. And when a big star like that loves MMA and wants to be involved … it just makes a lot of sense. And he wanted to come. He wanted to check it out. This was his first time to a Bellator fight.”

And apparently it won’t be his last. Expect to see 50 Cent at Bellator 200 on May 25.

“On the way out he said, ‘You know what, I’ll see you in London. I’m going to be there, because I love this. This is fantastic,'” Coker said. “So, he’s a friend of the family. We’ll see where it goes.”

50 Cent is no stranger to combat sports. A former Golden Gloves champion, he has experience boxing. And on the business side of things, the 42-year-old formed The Money Team with Floyd Mayweather in 2012 before parting ways with the promotion while it was still a fledgling entity.

But as Coker noted, 50 Cent’s interest in Bellator could spread beyond just the fight game.

“Bellator is owned by Viacom, so they do a lot of things other than the fight business,” Coker said.

Be that as it may, 50 Cent teased something on Twitter after Bellator 199.

What that something is, though, is anybody’s guess.

“Listen, there’s no business relationship between 50 and us,” Coker said. “He came as a fan. When he wants to bring some muscle to a promotion like he helped us with this, he did a great job. We should all thank him. It’s good for MMA.”

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