Strikeforce, CEO Scott Coker says he’d love to promote Gilbert Melendez vs. Eddie Alvarez
Strikeforce CEO, Scott Coker has revealed he’s love to be the one to promote the lightweight champion vs. Champion fight between Gilbert Melendez and Eddie Alvarez if a deal can be done with Bellator.
Speaking via MMAFighting.com, Coker said:
“We actually talked, probably about a week ago, and we had a nice conversation. It’s the first time I’ve ever spoken to him. [Rebney] seems like a good guy, and I wish him luck in what he’s doing. I said, ‘Look, the situation with Gilbert is he broke his hand in his last fight, so he’s out right now. He’s going to be out, probably until the fall. So this is something we can readdress. We are open to fighting other fighters in other leagues.”
“Doing co-promotions and fighting other fighters from other leagues is never going to be an issue. It just a matter of how do we do it? What’s the deal? We’ll sit down and give it a shot. I would love to see that fight between Eddie and Gilbert.”
“It comes down to details, like, after the fight’s over, who owns the intellectual property rights? Is it them? Is it us? Do we co-share it? There’s a tremendous amount of points to be negotiated and then is it on our broadcast platform? Is it on their broadcast platform? What rights are we going to retain? What rights are they going to retain? What if he wins the title? Is there an automatic rematch clause? It just goes on and on and on. But you know what? We got it done with the Fedor piece, and so I feel like we can do it with anybody.”
Both fighters have been successful in the past few months, Melendez defeating the likes of Josh Thomson and Shinya Aoki, while Alvarez defeated former UFC stand-out, Josh Neer via rear-naked choke. The Bellator champion has a fight upcoming with season two winner, Pat Curran for later one this year.
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Gilbert Melendez photo by Esther Lin – STRIKEFORCE
Strikeforce, CEO Scott Coker says he’d love to promote Gilbert Melendez vs. Eddie Alvarez
Strikeforce CEO, Scott Coker has revealed he’s love to be the one to promote the lightweight champion vs. Champion fight between Gilbert Melendez and Eddie Alvarez if a deal can be done with Bellator.
Speaking via MMAFighting.com, Coker said:
“We actually talked, probably about a week ago, and we had a nice conversation. It’s the first time I’ve ever spoken to him. [Rebney] seems like a good guy, and I wish him luck in what he’s doing. I said, ‘Look, the situation with Gilbert is he broke his hand in his last fight, so he’s out right now. He’s going to be out, probably until the fall. So this is something we can readdress. We are open to fighting other fighters in other leagues.”
“Doing co-promotions and fighting other fighters from other leagues is never going to be an issue. It just a matter of how do we do it? What’s the deal? We’ll sit down and give it a shot. I would love to see that fight between Eddie and Gilbert.”
“It comes down to details, like, after the fight’s over, who owns the intellectual property rights? Is it them? Is it us? Do we co-share it? There’s a tremendous amount of points to be negotiated and then is it on our broadcast platform? Is it on their broadcast platform? What rights are we going to retain? What rights are they going to retain? What if he wins the title? Is there an automatic rematch clause? It just goes on and on and on. But you know what? We got it done with the Fedor piece, and so I feel like we can do it with anybody.”
Both fighters have been successful in the past few months, Melendez defeating the likes of Josh Thomson and Shinya Aoki, while Alvarez defeated former UFC stand-out, Josh Neer via rear-naked choke. The Bellator champion has a fight upcoming with season two winner, Pat Curran for later one this year.
By Michael Pepper. (Follow me on Twitter)
Why not tell us what you think about this story and get your thoughts featured in this week’s Mailbag? Email Mailbag@mmabay.co.uk, start the subject with the word ‘MAILBAG’ and we’ll post our favourites this Friday.
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