Scott Coker on Strikeforce Tourney: 'I Would Buy It on Pay-Per-View'

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If you think it's easy to set up an eight-man tournament featuring some of MMA's most high-profile heavyweight fighters, think again.

Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker explained to MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour that simply putting together the tournament was a trial in and of itself, but the labor was made easier by one thing: the fighters' desire to get in the cage and mix it up.

"You're dealing with eight managers, from eight different camps, wanting eight different things," Coker told Helwani. "But in the end, everybody wanted to fight in the tournament, and they said, 'Sign me up.' From Fedor [Emelianenko] to Alistair [Overeem] to, you know, Andrei [Arlovski], they all wanted to be in the tournament, because in the old days, let's say, in Pride, the tournament was very, very popular. I think this is kind of a throwback to that era."

Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/01/10/scott-coker-on-strikeforce-tourney-i-would-buy-it-on-pay-per-v/

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