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" Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience. "

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

" Our sport has great fighters and great fans. And the fans really get to connect to those fighters. "

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

" 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. "

" MMA has evolved. When you look at an MMA fighter's skill set, boxing has to be a big piece of it. All of them have a boxing coach now and strive to have a good stand-up game, knowing that to be a complete fighter, you have to tend to your striking skills. "

" Spike is an entertainment company. So why not have entertaining fights when you can do them? "

" 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. "

" You can't put an age on power. "

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

" MMA fans should thank Spike TV for their commitment to the sport. "

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

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

" To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect. "

" 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. "

" I think I'm going to be a juggler when I retire from the promotion business one day. "

" In Strikeforce, we're committed to putting on the best fights that we can. "

" Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics. "

" The experience I've had with Strikeforce kickboxing, K1, Strikeforce MMA, working with ESPN, working with Showtime, working with Japanese television, working with fighter camps from all over the world has given me a unique perspective. "

" Great fights means great TV ratings. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When you think about martial arts here in the states, kickboxing was here in the '70s, and it kind of ran its course. But I always felt there was a place in combat sports for kickboxing. "

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

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

" A lot of fighters want that freedom to have their own sponsorships. When you think about it, how do you make independent contractors wear a uniform? That just seems strange to me. "

" I'm excited to see Jake Hager debut for Bellator in 2018. When I heard he was seriously interested in competing in MMA, and when you look at what he did at the collegiate level, I was very interested in having him on our roster. "

" 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. "