Speaking via MMAJunkie.com Harris said:“When I read [what Coenen told MMAjunkie.com], I thought, ‘Wow, there’s some motive behind this because to take that situation and turn it around is just not right.’ I read what Marloes said. I don’t know where they’re trying to go with this, but what she said is not what happened. We told everyone to be down there at 9:30. We don’t ever tell fighters to be there at 9:30 so we can leave at 10 because otherwise they’re all going to show up at 10. What we tell them is that if we tell you at 9:30, Burt (Watson) tells them 9:31 is late.”
“We were down there, and the problem we had is that we had a bunch of people. We had Tim Kennedy and Robbie Lawler and Miesha Tate and Fedor (Emelianenko) and all these people, and we were driving about 40 minutes into the city. We had rented out Harry Caray’s famous restaurant – which was not cheap, by the way – to do the press conference. We had a huge crowd, and it went really well.
“At 9:30, she didn’t show up. At 9:35, she didn’t show up. Her crew told me she would be down in five minutes. At 9:40, she didn’t show up, and they told me it would be another five minutes. I went through that about three times. I walked back to the Suburban, and Fedor’s people are like, ‘Why are we sitting here? We were told we were leaving at 9:30.’ I’ve got six guys packed into a Suburban, so we left.”
“It surprises me that she would look at it that way. If that were me, I would think, ‘Wow, I was late, and I was wrong to do that. That’s my bad.’ But apparently, she thinks it’s our fault that we left her. Well, you need to be there on time. We had a schedule. We had people waiting for us at the restaurant to get this press conference going. I waited for 25 minutes for her.”
Coenen was just defeated for the Strikeforce women’s 135 pound title by powerhouse wrestler, Miesha Tate, with many expecting her to get back on the horse early next year and restart her career with a fledgling promotion
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