Former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has met with Scott Coker to discuss future co-promotional opportunities between Eagle FC and Bellator.
Nurmagomedov retired from competition in October 2020, and has since taken his talents into the worlds of both coaching and promoting. He brought Eagle FC to America, and has signed up the likes of former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos and ex-Bellator middleweight title holder Hector Lombard.
And he has expressed interest in working on co-promotions with other organisations, including Coker and Bellator who have a number of major names on their books. The fight that got fans, and the two promoters, talking was a potential meeting between Dos Santos and Fedor Emelianenko at heavyweight, which was a dream fight that could never happen during both men's primes.
