“Those discussions have started,” Coker told Sherdog. “All I could tell you is that it’s going to lead to another conversation, which will lead to another conversation, so it’s going to take time, and, hopefully, we’ll have something put together in the next two to three weeks and we can make a big announcement when the next Fedor fight will occur. If it were up to me, guys, and it were a Strikeforce event, we’d have Fedor fighting before the end of the year. When you have a co-promotion, there are a lot of different needs to fill so to speak.”

Also In the Strikeforce heavyweight picture, there will be much to decide in the coming weeks. Fabricio Werdum, the man who vanquished Emelianenko with a slick 69-second submission in June, has already offered the iconic Russian fighter an immediate rematch -- the bout M-1 Global wants next.