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" I would say, look, any fighter that's out there or any star athlete - not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar - that really wants to fight, we're going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we're going to want them on Spike TV. "

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" We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce. "

Scott Coker

Past

Always

Company

" We want Bellator to be a destination for not only the top-tier fighters in the sport, but the first-choice destination for fans to see the most entertaining fights in the sport. "

" That's the thing about the fight business is that you don't know what's going to happen. "

" I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart. "

" I thought, 'If I can create a business to promote martial arts, that'd sure be a lot of fun.' "

" In my years of doing the K1 fights, one thing I've learned is that the guys who you think will be there in the end - very rarely do you get the match up you were hoping for. "

" I think the MMA and boxing are different audiences. I think it's a different intrigue. There's no reason you can't be a fan of both; why does it have to be one or the other? "

" If a legend fight comes up, or if a fun fight comes up that makes sense, and the fans want to see it, then we're going to do it. We're not going to be afraid to do those fights. "

" Great fights means great TV ratings. "

" I don't think that 25-year-olds should be fighting 40-year-olds. "

" I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while. "

" The welterweight division has really emerged as one of our most exciting weight classes. "

" We have a zero tolerance policy here at Bellator when it relates to any form of domestic violence. "

" I'm not a union guy in the sense that I know a lot about how they operate. But I know fighters. They are individual athletes. This is not a team sport. I think it's going to be hard to say, 'Hey, do you mind not fighting on Saturday and walking around the arena with a picket sign instead?' I just don't see it. "

" Tournaments, traditionally, are kind of the way martial arts contests happen. "

" Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could. "

" I'd like to see Melvin Manhoef fight Robbie Lawler. "

Scott Coker

See

Fight

" When I think about the skill level of Andrey Koreshkov, he is at the top of his game and at an elite level. "

" All my fighters know I'm a fan of theirs. They know I think of them as the stars and that we will facilitate in the building of their stock. "

" When you think about mixed martial arts, you have to think about the entire scope of the athlete. "

" There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night. "

" I love big events. It reminds me of the old days, when I knew everyone on the fight card, and it wasn't just one fight. "

Scott Coker

Events

Old

" I buy the UFC pay-per-views that are on OnDemand, DirectTV, and DISH. As far as quality, come on. These are the best heavyweights in the world. I think everybody knows that. "

" One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport. "

" When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts. "

" I think boxing is on the rise because of what Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor did. I think they captured the time and made boxing cool again. "

" When I first came to Bellator, I wanted to take it back to what we accomplished at Strikeforce and look at the next generation. So we signed the Aaron Picos of the world and put them in our development programme to nurture them. "

" Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they're valued a certain price, and sometimes we don't feel that way. "

" Let's go back to super-fights. Let's put on fights that are great live or on television. "

Scott Coker

Back

Television

" If the fighter doesn't want to fight, you're not gonna want him to fight. If the fighter doesn't want to fight, the promoter doesn't make him fight. And if he wants to retire, then it's time to walk away. "