Scott Coker: Recent Strikeforce cuts were done 'in fairness to the athletes'

and dont be surprised to hear that smith, lawler, and daley got their walking papers in the next week or so. I wouldnt be.

once a mgmt team f*ks up deals with the promotion, it f*ks up the relationship of all the other fighters they represent also.

I expect Scott Smith to join that line along with Paul Daley.

To be honest it may be best for Daley to ship on back to merry ole’ England and fight for BAMMA. He gets to fight a lil less stiff competition and still get his TDD goo enough to use his boxing. Then again his boxing was beat by Nick Diaz.

Smith, it is all over and your days of regional mma and HDnet exclusive show headlining has begun. Nothing wrong with that Smith but maybe string a few and get one last handsome sum from a promotion.

Strikeforce, is done with the Grand Prix is done and it is for the best..theres just not enough depth to create any divisions. Plus T.Woodley is good enough for the UFC, Big Foot is ready, Gilbert is and so many others.

win or lose lawler comes to bang and puts on good fights. Its not like he sucks, he just needs to work on his grappling…didn’t hughes or miletich teach him anything??

who have butted heads with dana white in the past, like rampage, tito, penn, etc and he he gave them a second chance, lets hope he does the same for alistair.

Ha. Nice. I was thinking something similar. But haven’t all his comments sounded that way since the “acquisition?” It’s like every time he’s interviewed, he seems just a little bit more deflated and uninspired. Poor Coker.

I was thinking along the lines of the movie Red dragon. Were danas standing behind the camera making sure Coker reads everything written down on the note or else.

It’s the deconstruction of not just Strikeforce, but of women’s MMA in the mainstream.

yup, cutting her just devalues the titles imo. you lose it and get cut in one match just so it’s ‘fairer’ that you can fight again somewhere else for a different belt in a different organisation ? whatever.

 the sooner SF is closed the better now

Then the verbal bashing will begin.

On the other hand, i think he recognizes the star potential Reem has and doesn’t wanna fuck up any good relationship he has before he has a chance to cash in on it.

Then he turns around and accepts a fight with a no name organization “United Glory World Series” for October this year…. Not the smartest business move on his part. No opponent named yet, but he has agreed to fight at the event.

I have an idea ANS and would love to hear your thoughts.

I believe after last winter’s K-1 finale Overeem signed a 3 fight deal (3 tournament or non tournament fights)

I think the UFC wanted to re-negotiate his deal due to him advancing to the Semis and the Grand Prix closing up soon. You don’t want the SF grand prix winner leaving with that momentum (all the favor in his cards)

I Think Alistair played hard ball knowing the UFC/SF really wanted his rights but in they cut him knowing their the only real big player out there and decided to end his bargaining rights aka a grand prix win alongside his SF HW belt

Thoughts?

Now if they were going to just own two different brands then maybe. But when it became clear a merging was inevitable they would over time make the two look more and more similar.

I still think Showtime fucked over SF or that Zuffa wanted to ensure they had Overeem’s exclusives rights and Reem was too much dolla dolla bills yo