SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
January - 2015
7
FIGHTING FOR REAL:
IS BELLATOR WISE TO JUMP ON THE
PRO WRESTLING BANDWAGON?
Article By: Jay Anderson
The shake-up at Bella-
tor MMA that resulted in
the ousting of founder
and CEO Bjorn Rebney
and the hiring of former
Strikeforce founder Scott
Coker has finally started to
show results in the cage.
It may not be the sport
over spectacle approach
that Bellator was founded
on, but people are watch-
ing, and the promotion,
under Coker, has made
a few key pick-ups: Paul
Daley, Melvin Manhoef,
and former WWE super-
star Bobby Lashley, until
recently champion in TNA
Wrestling (TNA for a time
shared a home with Bella-
tor on Spike TV, and had a
number of MMA fighters
appear under its banner:
Tito Ortiz, Rampage Jack-
son, and King Mo in addi-
tion to Lashley).
The Lashley signing by
Bellator MMA was no a
huge surprise. Scott Coker
had worked with Lash-
ley before, after all, back
in Strikeforce, where the
massive heavyweight with
the chiselled physique
Alberto Del Rio (Alberto Del Rio/Facebook)