Scott Coker is back in MMA with a $60M venture, ready to shake up the sport again

According to his best friend, Scott Coker is a lifelong martial artist, a bad golfer and a promoter forever critical to the MMA landscape.And as of Thursday morning, he’s back in the sport. With the launch of a yet-to-be-named fight promotion, Coker — the man who built Strikeforce and Bellator, two of the UFC’s biggest challengers to date — is starting a new tournament-styled league with $60 million in initial funding that he says will be additive to the ever-expanding fight industry.Advertisement