{"id":289132,"date":"2018-10-24T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=289132"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:04:55","slug":"bellator-president-scott-coker-reacts-to-talk-of-ufc-one-championship-trading-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/bellator-president-scott-coker-reacts-to-talk-of-ufc-one-championship-trading-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellator President Scott Coker reacts to talk of UFC, ONE Championship trading fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/report-one-championship-ufc-close-to-finalizing-historic-ben-askren-demetrious-johnson-trade\/\">news broke<\/a> that the UFC and Singapore-based MMA promotion ONE Championship were closing in on a historic trade that would send former UFC flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson to Asia, and former ONE and Bellator welterweight champ Ben Askren to the UFC&#8217;s Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>If this trade works out, it will be a massive moment in the history of our sport, as there is not much of a precedent for major promotions swapping one fighter for another on a permanent or even long-term basis. While promotions like Bellator and Rizin have shared talent before, they have not ever truly\u00a0<em>traded\u00a0<\/em>fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, if this trade is successful, it might open the door to the other promotion-to-promotion trades in the future.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s what Bellator President Scott Coker seems to be thinking. Speaking on Twitter shortly after news of this UFC &#8211; ONE Championship trade broke, Coker implied that trades are something he could get on board with in the future.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottCoker\/status\/1055151855901110272<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trades&#8230;&#8221; the Bellator boss said, punctuating his words with a telling lightbulb emoji.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s hard to imagine a world where the UFC and Bellator would swap fighters, Bellator has previously been linked to similar arrangements with ONE Championship. Most notably, ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong recently suggested it&#8217;s possible that ONE Championship and Bellator could broker a deal that would allow Askren to fight Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald. With Askren potential UFC bound, of course, that now seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;re entering a new era of promotions trading fighters back and forth? Where do you think Scott Coker and Bellator MMA would fit into this era?<\/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 10\/24\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, news broke that the UFC and Singapore-based MMA promotion ONE Championship were closing in on a historic trade that would send former UFC flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson to Asia, and former ONE and Bellator welterweight champ Ben Askren to the UFC&#8217;s Octagon. If this trade works out, it will be a massive moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":275862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10122],"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>Bellator President Scott Coker reacts to talk of UFC, ONE Championship trading fighters | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator President Scott Coker reacts to news of ONE Championship and the UFC potentially trading Ben Askren for Demetrious Johnson.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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