Over the weekend, a guy I met said he was going to create a persona and call himself 'Times New Roman Helwani'. It's probably the worst idea I've heard this year -- which, of course, makes it the greatest idea I've heard this year. I'm not sure how inebriated this person was when he told me about this, but it would be a ridiculous premise to build internet fame on. It would never work, just ask Fake Scott Coker.

On this week's edition of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Eddie Alvarez had the opportunity to confront Scott Coker regarding the fight we all want to see.

"Scott, It seems as though your lightweight champion keeps on calling me out on every interview and I have no problem with that. I've never said anything about the kid and I would never say anything at all. Never even approached anybody about fighting Gilbert Melendez. He just doesn't shut up, every other interview he's talking about fighting me 'Oh I want to fight Eddie Alvarez, I want to fight Eddie Alvarez' and it really makes me look bad because I see it [the interview] the next day later. So Bjorn says it's OK, I say it's OK, Gilbert is telling the world that he wants to fight me. I assume you're the only one left to agree."

Scott responded by stating that he's completely game to promote the fight, but details need to be worked out between both organizations.

"First of all, I have tremendous respect for you. I think you're a great fighter, great champion of Bellator and I followed your career over in Japan when you were fighting over there and these things are sometimes a little complicated. It's not just the fight, of course we would love to make the fight, but there's so many details to be worked out between the promotions to make it happen. Bjorn did call me and I did talk to him and this was probably two months ago. I said look, Gilbert has a broken hand at the time so let's just table this until the future, but after the KJ Noons/Nick Diaz fight, we can readdress this. We've been open to co-promotions with every league so that's not the issue. The issue is how does it work on a business level between our two leagues and if we can work that out, we would love to have it."

A couple weeks ago, Bjorn Rebney told us he's been reaching out to Strikeforce to get this fight going with no apparent success. If by the end of 2010, Eddie Alvarez vs. Gilbert Melendez is officially inked for 2011, I will take all credit for it. Alright, I'll give some of it to Ariel Helwani, but I'll take the majority. [Source]

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-7 # Guest 2010-10-05 12:47

Scott Coker is a Cock Sucker

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+3 # chiggs 2010-10-05 13:07

Well if Bjorn REAALLLY REALLY wanted to make the fight, why not just, let Eddie take the fight with SF covering everything monetary ect. and just dont count it as a fight of his BFC contract(if thats ahold up issue) Let SF handle it, refer to him as the BFC Champ, market it as Champ vs Champ, Promotion vs Promotion ala SF Vs Dream. Give Bellator some publicity an marketing, throw up a few BFC logo's or what not, and have at er!!! Really though, it Cant be all that fuckin complicated to get it sorted out, especially if Coker can work out deals with both the Japanese an Russians, why not a dirty ex-Boxing Promoter Bjorn is a shady motherfucker, that much is certain

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-2 # CAUC4SIANthundr 2010-10-05 13:18

that was probably straight lies coming out of coker's mouth on a count of him being a douche.

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+5 # Guest 2010-10-05 13:38

Let's see if he can get past Huerta first, then a fight with Gilbert would look more attractive.

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+2 # yo! 2010-10-05 17:15

Eddie Alvarez is gonna run over Huerta I garantee it. And Hector Lombard would jack Feijao up.

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0 # arthurknoqout 2010-10-06 09:54

I love Eddie, I wanna see a street fight between him and Gilbert!

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