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Scott Coker was once the Bellator President, but Coker no longer holds that job following the purchase of the promotion by the PFL.
It appears that Coker could’ve had a job with the PFL, but he turned the opportunity down in order to return to his entrepreneurial roots.
“I’ll tell you honestly: I thought about it,” Coker told MMA Junkie Radio. “The opportunity was there. But how I felt was, it’s time to go. It’s time for me, for myself, to be an entrepreneur. I love that the most. I worked for Viacom and Paramount for nine years (as Bellator president). It was a great experience. I’m glad I did it. Paramount was very good to me. I learned a lot over there. But I’m an entrepreneur at heart. It’s really the first job (working for someone other than myself) I took as an adult.”
Coker is launching a brand new MMA promotion, but neither talent, fights or a broadcast home have been revealed yet.
The former Bellator President always had a plan in case things with Bellator ever went downhill.
“I worked hard. I think we built some great value in that company,” Coker said. “When Strikeforce built, it had value. Somebody wanted to come buy it. When Bellator built, it had value. Somebody wanted to come buy it. This is something that is natural in business. But I always felt like if they sold the company one day, I always told myself I would go back and be an entrepreneur – and that’s really what I wanted to do.”
