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Our MMA correspondent at The Sun, Mark Gilbert, said you were trying to buy Strike Force at one point, is that true?
You kind of caught me off guard in asking the question, but it’s 100% true.
I don’t know whose names I’m supposed or not supposed to discuss, so I will skirt the issue of who else was involved by simply saying we formed a group of qualified, intelligent, motivated people last summer and had some meetings with Scott Coker about buying Strike Force and obviously keeping Coker intricately involved.
I think Strike Force was in a position to, if not challenge UFC, then be what ECW was in the 90s which is a very viable alternative brand.
I have a lot of admiration for what Scott Coker and his team have built in Northern California, and I like the name Strike Force. Good name for branding.
I like their presentation, I think they have some marketable fighters under contract, and we had a collective vision that I think could have really, really worked.
The negotiations stopped because one of the key people in our group ended up being someone we didn’t want to get stuck with, because we realised in the negotiations that he was the wrong guy for the deal.
Scott Coker is a good man. I like him personally, love his organization, and think he deserves a lot of credit for what he’s built.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle762131.ece
Our MMA correspondent at The Sun, Mark Gilbert, said you were trying to buy Strike Force at one point, is that true?
You kind of caught me off guard in asking the question, but it’s 100% true.
I don’t know whose names I’m supposed or not supposed to discuss, so I will skirt the issue of who else was involved by simply saying we formed a group of qualified, intelligent, motivated people last summer and had some meetings with Scott Coker about buying Strike Force and obviously keeping Coker intricately involved.
I think Strike Force was in a position to, if not challenge UFC, then be what ECW was in the 90s which is a very viable alternative brand.
I have a lot of admiration for what Scott Coker and his team have built in Northern California, and I like the name Strike Force. Good name for branding.
I like their presentation, I think they have some marketable fighters under contract, and we had a collective vision that I think could have really, really worked.
The negotiations stopped because one of the key people in our group ended up being someone we didn’t want to get stuck with, because we realised in the negotiations that he was the wrong guy for the deal.
Scott Coker is a good man. I like him personally, love his organization, and think he deserves a lot of credit for what he’s built.
