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Bellator president invites Meryl Streep to watch MMA after Golden Globes diss

Scott Coker, the president of Bellator MMA, has extended an invitation to Meryl Streep to watch Bellator 170 after the longtime actress took a shot at the the sport in her Cecil B. De Mille award acceptance speech at Sunday night's Golden Globes.

"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick 'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts," Streep said while taking aim at President-elect Donald Trump's view for his presidency.

The MMA community took to social media to criticize Streep's comments.