SCOTT COKER

That's the thing about the fight business is that you don't know what's going to happen.

I buy the UFC pay-per-views that are on OnDemand, DirectTV, and DISH. As far as quality, come on. These are the best heavyweights in the world. I think everybody knows that.

I don't think that 25-year-olds should be fighting 40-year-olds.

Our sport has great fighters and great fans. And the fans really get to connect to those fighters.

You can only control your own destiny.

Martial arts is something I studied since I was 6 years old.

My background in promoting martial arts started in 1985 when we were doing PK Karate, which was on ESPN. Fast forward to when mixed martial arts became legal in California. I made the jump to MMA and never looked back.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

MMA has a great safety record. I was always confused as to why it was illegal in New York in the first place.

I'm not thinking of any other leagues. I'm really not. I'm thinking of what can I do to move Bellator forward. I'm thinking of what we need to fix, what fighters we should sign, where we can expand internationally.

We have a zero tolerance policy here at Bellator when it relates to any form of domestic violence.

Great fights means great TV ratings.

I always love meeting other promoters.

When I think about the skill level of Andrey Koreshkov, he is at the top of his game and at an elite level.

In my years of doing the K1 fights, one thing I've learned is that the guys who you think will be there in the end - very rarely do you get the match up you were hoping for.

We want Bellator to be a destination for not only the top-tier fighters in the sport, but the first-choice destination for fans to see the most entertaining fights in the sport.

One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport.

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

MMA has evolved. When you look at an MMA fighter's skill set, boxing has to be a big piece of it. All of them have a boxing coach now and strive to have a good stand-up game, knowing that to be a complete fighter, you have to tend to your striking skills.

When I first came to Bellator, I wanted to take it back to what we accomplished at Strikeforce and look at the next generation. So we signed the Aaron Picos of the world and put them in our development programme to nurture them.

Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they're valued a certain price, and sometimes we don't feel that way.

To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect.

Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience.

All my fighters know I'm a fan of theirs. They know I think of them as the stars and that we will facilitate in the building of their stock.

When you think about mixed martial arts, you have to think about the entire scope of the athlete.