MMA manager Mike Kogan received an unexpected phone call from UFC President Dana White.
One day before, he had sent an email to Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker and CC’d a high-ranking Zuffa executive.
The email, he told MMAjunkie.com acknowledged Zuffa’s matching rights on Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal and laid out the terms of an offer recently submitted by Bellator Fighting Championships. It said that unless the company wanted to match Bellator’s offer, Kogan would consider Lawal a free agent after 15 business days.