{"id":119417,"date":"2014-11-17T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=119417"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:10:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:10:01","slug":"cung-le-boys-back-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/cung-le-boys-back-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Cung Le: &#8220;The boys are back in town&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/cung-le-boys-back-town\/le-coker\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119418\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119418\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Le-coker.png\" alt=\"Le coker\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Le-coker.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Le-coker-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Le-coker-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cung Le and Scott Coker go way back. Le fought his first professional bout under the Strikeforce banner, which Coker was the President of. Le went on to fight for Strikeforce 8 times before being signed by the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent drama between Le and the UFC, with the UFC suspending, and then un-suspending Le for what they believed was a failed drug test, this picture stirs up quite the discussion. Bellator has gained the reputation for signing former UFC fighters, and given Le and the UFC&#8217;s rocky relationship at the present time, could Le be signing with Bellator?<\/p>\n<p>It is also worth noting that Le still has 2 fights left in his UFC contract.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"4\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/vc5DX1Gupg\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">The boys are back in town !<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Cung Le (@cungle185) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2014-11-16T06:59:49+00:00\">Nov 11, 2014 at 10:59pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cung Le and Scott Coker go way back. Le fought his first professional bout under the Strikeforce banner, which Coker was the President of. Le went on to fight for Strikeforce 8 times before being signed by the UFC. With the recent drama between Le and the UFC, with the UFC suspending, and then un-suspending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":119418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[10040,244,9,11,810,15],"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>Cung Le: &quot;The boys are back in town&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\/ufcnews\/cung-le-boys-back-town\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cung Le: &quot;The boys are back in town&quot; | BJPENN.COM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cung Le and Scott Coker go way back. 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