{"id":301858,"date":"2019-02-15T05:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T13:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=301858"},"modified":"2019-02-15T05:57:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T13:57:47","slug":"scott-coker-teases-another-bellator-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/scott-coker-teases-another-bellator-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Coker teases another Bellator Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the last year, Bellator MMA has had Grand Prix fever, promoting action-packed tournaments in its heavyweight and welterweight divisions. According to Bellator president Scott Coker, this exciting trend is likely to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, he says Bellator is likely to start hosting one Grand Prix a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe tournament format, everybody understands,\u201d Coker told Danny Segura of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/2\/15\/18225433\/morning-report-scott-coker-says-bellator-is-considering-a-featherweight-grand-prix-for-october\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Fighting (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cI love the tournament format because that\u2019s how I grew up doing martial arts. When I was working for K-1 I loved watching the Grand Prix unfold and then at the end of the year they had the big event. So single elimination events make a lot of sense for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat I learned is that we should always have a tournament at some point in the year. Bellator will run tournament in one weight class per year. We don\u2019t want to do two or three or four different tournaments. And we\u2019ll throw tournaments when we have eight fighters that are brand names already, that people already know that we can put together. That\u2019s been the formula and it\u2019s worked so we\u2019re going to continue doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Scott Coker hasn&#8217;t nailed down the weight class for the next Grand Prix, he says the featherweight division is currently the frontrunner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of dialogue about different weight classes,\u201d Coker said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t 100 percent said which division but I believe that come October we will probably roll out a new tournament in a different weight class. We\u2019ve talked about the pros and cons of different weight classes but I think that the one that sounds the most attractive to me is the featherweight division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou have the Pitbulls [Patricio Freire] and you have the A.J. McKees, [James] Gallagher could come up,\u00a0Darrion Caldwell\u00a0could come up, and [Aaron] Pico is in that weight class, [Henry] Corrales, [Emmanuel] Sanchez &#8211; we just have so many great fighters in that weight class that I think it makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think of this plan from Scott Coker?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0on 2\/15\/2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, Bellator MMA has had Grand Prix fever, promoting action-packed tournaments in its heavyweight and welterweight divisions. According to Bellator president Scott Coker, this exciting trend is likely to continue. 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