Scott Coker was also on Tapout Radio (audio):
– Fedor was the hottest free agent on the market
– We were bidding against 4 or 5 people (including UFC)
– I’m very lucky we have Fedor on board
– We are going to co-promote with M-1, M-1 doesn’t get 50% of Strikeforce, it’s just a revenue split of the event
– I’d like to see Brett Rogers, Fabricio Werdum and Alistair Overeem against Fedor
– We have an alliance with DREAM
– We are talking about having a card with the best of DREAM, K-1, M-1 and Strikeforce (Manhoef vs. Lawler or Aoki vs. Thomson)
– This will be the first time you see Fedor fight in a cage
– We’ll have an opponent named by a press conference on Thursday
“Although the deal with Strikeforce is an exclusive one, it’s far from a contract signed in blood as Fedor is currently contractually obligated to fight for Strikeforce for just one year.”
“Basically it’s three fights over the next year, and we’ll start in the Fall some time…The very first fight that Fedor fights will be on Showtime, and then the roll-out of television from there forward hasn’t been determined 100%, but his first fight will be on Showtime.”
“[Fedor] and Alistair Overeem should be an amazing fight, and people that haven’t seen Alistair, you know, he’s an amazing fighter.. I think we should do a couple of fights and build that one up, and then let their champion fight our champion, and let’s see what happens.”
“We’re hoping that Alistair will be ready to fight in the Fall, and we can put him on one of the cards with Fedor, and not fight against each other but fight against someone else, and let’s build that fight up.”
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