{"id":324320,"date":"2019-09-04T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=324320"},"modified":"2019-09-04T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:52:31","slug":"scott-coker-explains-how-bellator-will-promote-cris-cyborg-better-than-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/scott-coker-explains-how-bellator-will-promote-cris-cyborg-better-than-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Coker explains how Bellator will promote Cris Cyborg better than UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Strikeforce, Invicta and UFC champ Cris Cyborg is now a Bellator MMA fighter. The Brazilian legend <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/breaking-cris-cyborg-signs-with-bellator-mma\/\">signed<\/a> with the Scott Coker helmed promotion this week.<\/p>\n<p>Cyborg and Coker have a longstanding professional relationship, as Coker was the president of Cyborg&#8217;s former home in Strikeforce. As the pair begin the next chapter of their professional relationship, Coker is vowing to handle Cyborg&#8217;s career properly \u2014 which he believes the UFC failed to do.<\/p>\n<p>From the sounds of it, he intends to keep her much more active, and ensure she has a rich, talent-packed division to compete in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to keep her much more active, and two, they\u2019re not in the 145-pound weight class business, and we are,\u201d Coker told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/09\/cris-cyborg-bellator-scott-coker-says-immediate-title-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMAJunkie.com (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cSo to me, it\u2019s something I think that we\u2019ve been growing this weight class for the last two, three years, and Cyborg is a great addition to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will have girls in her weight class to fight, whereas in the UFC, I think it was like, let\u2019s see who we can sign to fight her for a one-off, or make people move up to fight her from a different weight class. But the commitment was never to start a 145-pound weight class \u2013 it was always somebody just to fight her. I think that\u2019s the difference. We\u2019ll do this one right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Coker also added that he&#8217;ll allow Cris Cyborg to box during her time with Bellator \u2014 though MMA will be her main priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMMA is going to be her first commitment, but if she wants to box, I\u2019m all about it,\u201d Coker said. \u201cBut we\u2019re going to be a part of it. You might see her boxing on DAZN a couple times a year or once a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Cris Cyborg will do in 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 9\/4\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Strikeforce, Invicta and UFC champ Cris Cyborg is now a Bellator MMA fighter. The Brazilian legend signed with the Scott Coker helmed promotion this week. Cyborg and Coker have a longstanding professional relationship, as Coker was the president of Cyborg&#8217;s former home in Strikeforce. As the pair begin the next chapter of their professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":296520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10203,10122],"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>Scott Coker explains how Bellator will promote Cris Cyborg better than UFC | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator President Scott Coker explains how he intends to succeed where the UFC failed in promoting WMMA legend Cris Cyborg.\" \/>\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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