When it comes to conflict management, no one is ever going to mistake Scott Coker for Dana White, but the usually mild-mannered Bellator President got a little irritated at today’s Bellator 192 pre-event press conference. When Saturday’s Bellator 192 card was first announced, a welterweight title fight between champ Douglas Lima (29-6 MMA, 11-2 BMMA) and challenger Rory MacDonald (19-4 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) was initially slated as the main event. However, Bellator officials and their counterparts at their newly rebranded broadcast home of Paramount (formerly Spike) recently elected to have a heavyweight grand prix contest between Quinton Jackson (37-12 MMA, 4-1 BMMA) and Chael Sonnen (29-15-1 MMA, 1-1 BMMA) serve as the final bout of the evening , declaring the card to have a “double main event.” The change has caused quite a bit of discussion leading up to Saturday’s event at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., and today’s pre-fight press conference was no different, with the topic addressed early on in the session. Paramount Senior Vice President Jon Slusser explained that tournament bouts will close the show at all 2018 Bellator “tentpole” events, and that the plan is for the bouts to look and feel different than the remainder of the card and serve as a “separate and unique event to the audience.” Yves Edwards wasn’t having it. The longtime MMA veteran – who fought under the UFC, PRIDE, Strikeforce and EliteXC banners, among others – was on hand to cover the press conference for Pluto TV, and he wasn’t satisfied with the explanation, pressing Coker and Slusser for more answers. The exchange left Coker a little hot under the collar, and the mood in the room quickly turned tense
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