Sure, Fedor Emelianenko has never fought for Bellator before and if I were a betting man I’d bet that he never does, but where Scott Coker is should be considered home for Fedor Emelianenko. You see, Scott Coker is out to somehow prove that Bellator is a competitor for the UFC and that the whole
Last week, Cung Le, Nate Quarry and Jon Fitch filed antitrust claims against the UFC. Several other fighters have since followed suit. In support of their original Complaint, the estranged fighters cited Dana White’s statement that the UFC was the mixed martial arts equivalent of the National Football League. “There is no competition,” White declared
Many were critical of Scott Coker’s grand vision heading into Bellator 131, mostly because the show was centered around a battle between two former UFC stars in Tito Ortiz and Stephan Bonnar. The fight was hyped by an in-ring scuffle that included a masked man being revealed and then out-of-the-ring hijinx like claims of spies
If there ever was a night to become a believer in Scott Coker, last night was that night. Bellator 131 was promoted on the backs of Tito Ortiz and Stephan Bonnar, two former UFC fighters who both achieved their own level of accolades and praise within the organization before departing, both on their own terms.
In June of this year, Scott Coker replaced Bjorn Rebney as the CEO of Bellator. And after just a few months, he announced the company had already changed its strategy regarding event-planning. Specifically, Bellator will begin hosting three or four especially large events on Saturdays each year, ensuring the cards aren’t watered down. The November
Luke Rockhold is the closest thing MMA currently has to a So-Cal James Bond. He’s dashing, can kick ass in a manner of ways, and considering he’s on Millionaire Matchmaker, the women he pursues are heiresses that may or may not be deadly pawns in a global game of espionage and intrigue. That’s why we
King Mo is a guy that speaks his mind no matter what. Sometimes that gets Mo in trouble, sometimes that helps the MMA universe enjoy his electric presence even more. With an army of beautiful women dropping rose petals at his feet and covering his crowned head with various umbrellas, Mo is here to make
It has felt like an eventuality for a while now that Eddie Alvarez would depart from Bellator. Hell, he even had a contract clause to which he had to have a few very specific fights then he’d leave Bellator. To say that it was an unhealthy situation would be an understatement and I think that
In 2010, Scott Coker did something for Zeus that warranted him the number six spot on the Top Ten Most Altruistic Individuals in 2010. I don’t know what it was, you don’t know what it was. Only Zeus and Scott know. For a long while people would ask Zeus what Scott did for him that
The list of fights I’d like to see before the world ends has been updated in the past few months. For example, Melendez/Alvaraez didn’t seem like a possibility in this reality until Michael Chandler ended Alvarez’s reign at the top of the Bellator lightweight tree. That’s probably near the top of my list. I didn’t
Yesterday I wanted to publish the picture that Miesha Tate gave to Ronda Rousey for Valentine’s Day, but I was too busy not spending time with some incredibly beautiful chick that lives in West Hollywood. Instead, I spent the better part of the afternoon unclogging my toilet — which is undoubtedly some ridiculous metaphor for
There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t slam my head against a hard surface thinking of the possibilities of Gilbert Melendez fighting in the UFC. It’s about as frustrating as trying to type the word ‘archipelago’ without checking the spelling on Google. See, even there I had to spell check it. In
It’s only appropriate that we start off 2012 with a topic that we’ve been endlessly discussing since 2009. Back then, the essential lightweight fight everyone salivated over was a cross-promotional bout between Strikeforce’s Gilbert Melendez and Bellator’s Eddie Alvarez. People initially believed that if the bout did happen, the primary issue would be over what
Whatever Christmas cards Dana White has in store for the media this year, the Showtime Network should not expect a seasons greeting. You guys don’t remember last year’s Christmas card? When you open it up, you can hear Dana White say ‘So you wanna be a [expletive] fighter?’. If you flip the card over, there’s a
As many of you on Twitter know, ‘Fake Scott Coker’ was forced to change his name due to some legal dispute with ZUFFA and (or) Showtime. I’m not really sure what happened. I didn’t follow the story as much as I wanted to that day. Frankly, I think the Scientologists in Hollywood did something to my
Not everyone can hold the title of CEO or have a last name that vaguely resembles an exotic Italian sports car. Our buds at CagePotato noticed something that flew relatively under the radar at the 2011 Fighter Summit in Las Vegas. On the agenda that was handed out to all Strikeforce fighters inside the Red