{"id":316594,"date":"2019-06-17T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=316594"},"modified":"2019-06-17T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:45:17","slug":"scott-coker-on-aaron-pico-dont-count-this-kid-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/scott-coker-on-aaron-pico-dont-count-this-kid-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Coker on Aaron Pico: &#8216;Don&#8217;t count this kid out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Pico has long stood out as one of the hottest prospects on the Bellator MMA roster. Regrettably, the 22-year-old has been brutally knocked out in his two most recent bouts, leaving some real concerns about his future in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Bellator 222 post-fight press conference, shortly after Pico&#8217;s knockout loss to Adam Borics, Bellator President Scott Coker discussed the recent rough stretch of this promising prospect.<\/p>\n<p>He says we should refrain from counting Pico out, despite his recent skid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t count this kid out,\u201d Coker said inside Madison Square Garden (via<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/06\/bellator-222-scott-coker-isnt-giving-up-on-aaron-pico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cAaron Pico, he is learning how to do this, and he\u2019s fought some tough guys and like he said, he said, \u2018Look, I can wrestle, and I can box, but I\u2019m still learning how to fight.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coker continued, praising the game plan of Aaron Pico and his new team at JacksonWink MMA \u2014 which seemed to be paying off until Borics shut the lights off with a knee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, there\u2019s a kid that had a great gameplan,\u201d Coker said. \u201cI think (Greg) Jackson had a solid thought in how are they going to fight this kid. And for the most part, he did great. He just made one mistake, he got hit, and you saw the rest. That\u2019s MMA. That can happen to anybody. So, it\u2019s just part of the business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From here, Coker says he&#8217;ll give Aaron Pico a few weeks off, then contact him to discuss what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have a conversation about (that) in a couple weeks and see what he wants to do, and maybe he should take a big step back before he starts to move forward again,\u201d Coker said.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think the future holds for Aaron Pico after his Bellator 222 loss?<\/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\/17\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Pico has long stood out as one of the hottest prospects on the Bellator MMA roster. Regrettably, the 22-year-old has been brutally knocked out in his two most recent bouts, leaving some real concerns about his future in the sport. Speaking at the Bellator 222 post-fight press conference, shortly after Pico&#8217;s knockout loss to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":293039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[29859,44],"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 on Aaron Pico: &#039;Don&#039;t count this kid out&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Aaron Pico still has the confidence of Bellator president Scott Coker after his second-straight knockout loss, which went down at Bellator 222.\" \/>\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\/bellator\/scott-coker-on-aaron-pico-dont-count-this-kid-out\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scott Coker on Aaron Pico: &#039;Don&#039;t count this kid out&#039; 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