{"id":892757,"date":"2026-09-15T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892757\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:12:09","slug":"scott-coker-reveals-plans-for-new-mma-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892757\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Coker Reveals Plans For New MMA Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Coker, the former CEO of Bellator and Strikeforce, has announced a new promotion called Ki MMA, set to begin holding events in 2027 with a different approach than his past ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than compete head-on with the UFC in North America, Coker plans to launch with a 32-fighter global tournament for young <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/featherweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">featherweight<\/a> prospects with fewer than 10 professional fights, staged across four countries to crown regional &#8220;continental champions&#8221; before a finals event where each finalist fights twice in one night.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will make up roughly 30% of Ki MMA&#8217;s total fight schedule for the year. Coker also confirmed all bouts will take place in a traditional boxing ring rather than a cage, a choice he believes improves the viewing experience for fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Coker, the former CEO of Bellator and Strikeforce, has announced a new promotion called Ki MMA, set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-892757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}