Scott Coker suggests one of the later rounds of the heavyweight tournament could take place in Japan

Strikeforce CEO, Scott Coker has today revealed that one of the latter rounds of the promotions upcoming heavyweight grand prix tournament could take place in Japan, a bold move after building relations with FEG, the company that owns K-1 and DREAM, over the past couple of years.
Speaking via MMAWeekly.com, Coker said:

“We’re having a couple conversations right now and we definitely want to travel to Canada at some point, which we’re working on. We’d definitely like to take one leg of the tournament at some point, it doesn’t have to be the next one or it could be the semifinals or maybe even the fights, but we’d like to eventually this year take one of those legs to Japan.”

“I just feel like with all the stars that we have and the fan base there for these fighters over there, I mean these fighters have a ton of fans in Japan. Why not go there and bring Strikeforce to Japan some time this year?”

With the likes of Fedor Emelianenko and Alistair Overeem still harbouring massive fan bases in the Far East following their days back in the PRIDE organisation it’s not a move that is likely to fail for the California based promotion. Stay tuned to MMABay for more on this as it comes in.