{"id":316319,"date":"2019-06-13T12:18:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=316319"},"modified":"2019-06-13T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:18:01","slug":"scott-coker-opens-door-to-bellator-ufc-cross-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/scott-coker-opens-door-to-bellator-ufc-cross-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Coker opens door to Bellator-UFC cross promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the leadership of Scott Coker, Bellator MMA has co-promoted with a number of other promotions, most notably Japan&#8217;s RIZIN Fighting Federation, but also with England&#8217;s BAMMA and Italy&#8217;s Oktagon.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, RIZIN bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi will take to the Bellator cage to battle Bellator bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell at Bellator 222 on Friday Night in New York City \u2014 the latest evidence of Coker&#8217;s willingness to work with other organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the organizations Bellator could co-promote with, of course, none would generate quite the same level of excitement as the UFC. While the UFC has never been big on co-promotion \u2014 as a matter of fact, the promotion has been against it outright \u2014 Scott Coker says he&#8217;d welcome the chance to work with the Las Vegas based promotion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, it\u2019s not their business model to do that, but if they want to get it on, let\u2019s do it,\u201d Coker said Wednesday at Bellator 222 media day (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/06\/ufc-vs-bellator-scott-coke-absolutely-down-for-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cWe would not be opposed to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Coker added. \u201cI mean, c\u2019mon. We got some killers in this league. If they want to get it on, let\u2019s do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While this is a very exciting possibility to think about, the UFC will likely never go for it, as Scott Coker suggests. At least not under the leadership of Dana White.<\/p>\n<p>If the UFC did get on board with the idea, however, it would open the door to some of the most exciting matchups possible in MMA. Patricio Freire vs. Max Holloway, Gegard Mousasi vs. Robert Whittaker, Ryan Bader vs. Daniel Cormier&#8230;. the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll ever see the UFC and Bellator working together?<\/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 6\/13\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the leadership of Scott Coker, Bellator MMA has co-promoted with a number of other promotions, most notably Japan&#8217;s RIZIN Fighting Federation, but also with England&#8217;s BAMMA and Italy&#8217;s Oktagon. In fact, RIZIN bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi will take to the Bellator cage to battle Bellator bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell at Bellator 222 on Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":297086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10122,39610],"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>Scott Coker opens door to Bellator-UFC cross promotion | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator president Scott Coker is willing to co-promote with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the future.\" \/>\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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