{"id":686695,"date":"2026-05-22T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:34:08","slug":"scott-cokers-new-mma-promotion-just-like-we-built-strikeforce-with-big-pot-of-gold-for-robust-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686695\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Coker\u2019s new MMA promotion? \u2018Just like we built Strikeforce\u2019 with \u2018big pot of gold\u2019 for \u2018robust\u2019 roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at a January date,\u201d Coker told NY Post<\/a>. \u201cAnd when I say January, it\u2019s not going to be just one event. It\u2019s going to be bang-bang-bang, bang-bang-bang. It\u2019s going to be a gauntlet of events that we produce in the first half of the year. We\u2019re going to identify the next set of stars; but also, we\u2019re going to buy free agents from the top down, just like we built Strikeforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have the tournament format, and the tournament format leads to new-star development,\u201d Coker explained. \u201cAnd that\u2019s something I think we\u2019re really good at: fighter procurement. I think we\u2019ve done it better than anybody else, but we will bring in free agents to sprinkle from the top down, and that\u2019s going to be a very robust roster, let\u2019s say, in a year or two.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coker claims the new platform will provide \u201ca big pot of gold\u201d for participating fighters.<\/p>\n

It sounds great on paper, but Coker and Co. may find it challenging to locate value in the free agent market. Whatever talent is not already locked up by UFC and PFL are typically old<\/a>, expensive<\/a>, or broken down<\/a>. It also depends on where Coker can stream his fights now that pay-per-view (PPV) is off the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re looking at a January date,\u201d Coker told NY Post. \u201cAnd when I say January, it\u2019s not going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,8810,82,250954,702],"class_list":["post-686695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-sports","tag-strikeforce-news","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}