Coker confident Strikeforce Challengers will be a success

Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker is confident the first Strikeforce Challengers event will be a success.

Challengers will be a event where new talent can be introduced and the first show takes place on Friday night.

“The arena is set up for 4,500 seats,” Coker told MMAjunkie this week. “We’re approaching the 2,400 (tickets sold) mark. I think we have a really good chance to have a really good crowd at that venue.”

“I know that the past regime used to go to mostly Indian reservation casinos or some different types of casinos where they were in a ballroom that sat 1,500 or 1,800, something like that, but for the first two shows… we’ve chosen to go into these venues that we’re going to set up for 4,000 to 5,000.”

Showtime Senior Vice President Ken Hershman said: “We’ll look at it much more akin to our ShoBox series, and those have a very nice, steady audience – very, very reliable group of fans.

“The other thing, in terms of the male 18-to-34-year-old demo, the [Diaz v Shamrock] Strikeforce show did garner almost nearly half of the audience of 18-to-34-year-old males, which is a very, very significant number for us.”

“No programming on Showtime draws that kind of number. So, in terms of hitting the demo, it does so dead on.”

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