{"id":108836,"date":"2014-08-19T05:02:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=108836"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:41:10","slug":"eddie-alvarez-under-contract-with-bellator-but-lawyers-are-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/eddie-alvarez-under-contract-with-bellator-but-lawyers-are-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Alvarez Under Contract With Bellator, But &#8220;Lawyers Are Talking&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/quick-twitt-eddie-alvarez-apologizes-for-dissing-bellators-interim-strap\/screen-shot-2014-05-13-at-2-04-44-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97268\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-13-at-2.04.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Eddie Alvarez PNG\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-13-at-2.04.44-PM.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-13-at-2.04.44-PM-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-13-at-2.04.44-PM-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey\u2019re talking about a couple of different options.  Right now, that\u2019s where it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked to characterize the lawyers\u2019 discussions, Coker said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to speculate as to what\u2019s going to happen. But I know that they\u2019re talking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coker spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/08\/champ-eddie-alvarez-still-under-contract-with-bellator-mma-but-lawyers-are-talking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> about Bellator&#8217;s current relationship with Champion Eddie Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez was trying to leave Bellator when his last contract was up, but Bellator exercised their right to match the contract offered to him by the UFC.  Which brings us to where we are now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey\u2019re talking about a couple of different options. Right now, that\u2019s where it is.\u201d Asked to characterize the lawyers\u2019 discussions, Coker said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to speculate as to what\u2019s going to happen. But I know that they\u2019re talking.\u201d Coker spoke with MMAJunkie about Bellator&#8217;s current relationship with Champion Eddie Alvarez. Alvarez was trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":97268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,2681],"tags":[10040,7888,4074,309,9,11,810,15],"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>Eddie Alvarez Under Contract With Bellator, But &quot;Lawyers Are Talking&quot; | 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\/eddie-alvarez-under-contract-with-bellator-but-lawyers-are-talking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eddie Alvarez Under Contract With Bellator, But &quot;Lawyers Are Talking&quot; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThey\u2019re talking about a couple of different options. 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