A biography for Scott Cokerhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“It's good to team up with Spike and Viacom. I see a lot of potential.”
“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.”
“Marloes Coenen is the real deal.”
“I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while.”
“We're not going to do monthly pay-per-view just to do pay-per-views. We're going to build up to big fights more like the boxing model, and when the time is right, we'll do the big, big fights.”
“There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night.”
“MMA has a great safety record. I was always confused as to why it was illegal in New York in the first place.”
“I thought, 'If I can create a business to promote martial arts, that'd sure be a lot of fun.'”
“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.”
“Spike is an entertainment company. So why not have entertaining fights when you can do them?”
“When I think about the skill level of Andrey Koreshkov, he is at the top of his game and at an elite level.”
“At the end of the day, it's a business about fighters and a business about people. This is our philosophy.”
“Let's go back to super-fights. Let's put on fights that are great live or on 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.”
“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 always love meeting other promoters.”
“Strikeforce is here to stay; we are definitely going to do our part to grow the sport and be good ambassadors of the sport.”
“If you look at Germany and France, a couple other countries, those are really kickboxing markets.”