If Scott Coker and Bellator had it their way, next Friday’s Bellator 163 card would have been held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Yet as these things go, there were some snags along the way that redirected the card to the more familiar Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn., where Bellator has traditionally held events over the years.
On Wednesday’s conference call with light heavyweight champion Liam McGeary and challenger Phil Davis — who square off in the main event on that Nov. 4 card — Coker said that Bellator’s first foray into New York would be forthcoming, though nothing is definitively set just yet.