Holy fucking shit!! Who saw that one coming??
It was Ariel Helwani that broke the news during an interview with UFC President Dana White on Friday, leaving the MMA world to ponder the purchase over the weekend. Before we get too excited, don't expect a WEC/Pride type merger. As stated by White numerous times during his interview it's "business as usual", so before we all start creating our dream match ups and getting wet at the thought of Overeem vs Velasquez, or even Fedor finally making his octagon debut, it ain't gonna happen..... for now.
Strikeforce and Coker will continue to run as a separate entity from the UFC. Sure we'll see advertisements for Strikeforce at UFC events and visa versa, but that might be all. I'm sure the future will hold something different. Dana still stands by his "no co-promoting" but now that he and the Fertitta's own Strikeforce that's something that might be a little easier to do and maybe at least tempt Dana a little more!?
As big news as this is, nothing is really going to change. All we can do right now is hope that we might get the odd superfight between the organizations in the very near future.
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