{"id":275814,"date":"2018-05-07T08:25:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=275814"},"modified":"2018-05-07T08:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:25:49","slug":"paul-daley-not-happy-with-treatment-from-bellator-scott-coker-theyre-playing-me-for-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/paul-daley\/paul-daley-not-happy-with-treatment-from-bellator-scott-coker-theyre-playing-me-for-an-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Daley not happy with treatment from Bellator, Scott Coker: They\u2019re playing me for an idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Daley <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/scott-coker\/paul-daley-fires-back-at-bellator-boss-scott-coker-hes-bitter\/\">still<\/a> isn&#8217;t happy with Bellator MMA. The British knockout artist, who battles former UFC welterweight title challenger and World Series of Fighting champ <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-fitch\/breaking-ufc-veteran-jon-fitch-signs-bellator\/\">Jon Fitch<\/a> at Bellator 199 this weekend, recently aired his grievances in an interview with<a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/05\/paul-daley-bellator-playing-me-for-an-idiot-and-i-aint-an-idiot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> MMAJunkie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had great times with Bellator,\u201d Daley said. \u201cI just don\u2019t like the recent treatment of me. I\u2019ve made it clear, and I will continue to make it clear through all the interviews \u2013 at the post-fight, at the pre-fight, during fight week \u2013 I ain\u2019t happy with what you guys are doing. I can see through what you guys are doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re playing me for an idiot, and I ain\u2019t an idiot. Let\u2019s just be done with all the bullshit. Let me fight, let me go, or you treat me like you want me to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daley then elaborated that part of the problem for him is a lack of communication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t address me,\u201d Daley said. \u201cI\u2019ve been in this sport for 15 years, and they don\u2019t address me. The only time I speak to Scott Coker is on fight week. I don\u2019t know the reason, but I\u2019m sure other fighters, especially the AKA boys and the Americans, have more of an interaction with him. And there is no U.K. representative for Bellator, so no, there\u2019s no one else for me to speak to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think that in itself is a bit disrespectful, that the boss of your promotion doesn\u2019t speak to you but then goes and does an interview and says, \u2018Paul says this and Paul says that. We offered Paul this and we offered him that.\u2019 You ain\u2019t offered me (expletive). You ain\u2019t even spoke to me in person, Mr. Coker. So what the (expletive) is that? This is how I feel, and this is the attitude I\u2019m going to take all the way up until fight night and after fight night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of the situation between Paul Daley and Bellator?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 5\/7\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Daley still isn&#8217;t happy with Bellator MMA. The British knockout artist, who battles former UFC welterweight title challenger and World Series of Fighting champ Jon Fitch at Bellator 199 this weekend, recently aired his grievances in an interview with MMAJunkie. \u201cI\u2019ve had great times with Bellator,\u201d Daley said. \u201cI just don\u2019t like the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":272319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10096],"tags":[],"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>Paul Daley not happy with treatment from Bellator, Scott Coker: They\u2019re playing me for an idiot | 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\/paul-daley\/paul-daley-not-happy-with-treatment-from-bellator-scott-coker-theyre-playing-me-for-an-idiot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paul Daley not happy with treatment from Bellator, Scott Coker: They\u2019re playing me for an idiot | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paul Daley still isn&#8217;t happy with Bellator MMA. 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