{"id":101824,"date":"2014-06-18T17:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T00:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=101824"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T18:01:47","slug":"wsof-exec-rebneys-release-is-freedom-from-slavery-a-victory-for-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/wsof-exec-rebneys-release-is-freedom-from-slavery-a-victory-for-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"WSOF Exec: Rebney&#8217;s Release Is Freedom From Slavery, A Victory For MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wsof-matchmaker-ali-abdel-aziz-has-a-few-choice-words-to-describe-bellators-actions-slimy-scummy-and-dirty\/ali-abdel-azizpng\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76452\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76452\" title=\"Ali Abdel-AzizPNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ali-Abdel-AzizPNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ali-Abdel-AzizPNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ali-Abdel-AzizPNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ali-Abdel-AzizPNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cToday is victory for all of MMA \u2013 for me, for you, for all the fighters. Today should be (named) MMA Independence Day. Freedom from slavery, freedom from abuse, freedom from shadiness \u2013 this guy left. I don\u2019t want to say his name \u2013 just MMA fans should be happy, and I\u2019m very sure a lot of people are.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/06\/wsofs-ali-abdelaziz-on-bellator-shakeup-today-is-mma-independence-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, WSOF VP Ali Abdelaziz discussed today&#8217;s news that Viacom released Bjorn Rebney as the Bellator CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion opted to put in former Strikeforce president Scott Coker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday is victory for all of MMA \u2013 for me, for you, for all the fighters. Today should be (named) MMA Independence Day. Freedom from slavery, freedom from abuse, freedom from shadiness \u2013 this guy left. I don\u2019t want to say his name \u2013 just MMA fans should be happy, and I\u2019m very sure a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":76452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,5806],"tags":[7351,10040,147,11,649,810,2814],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WSOF Exec: Rebney&#039;s Release Is Freedom From Slavery, A Victory For MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/wsof-exec-rebneys-release-is-freedom-from-slavery-a-victory-for-mma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WSOF Exec: Rebney&#039;s Release Is Freedom From Slavery, A Victory For MMA | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cToday is victory for all of MMA \u2013 for me, for you, for all the fighters. 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