{"id":66265,"date":"2026-05-21T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=66265"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:36:01","slug":"tony-hawk-invests-in-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=66265","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk Invests in New MMA League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-66266 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thawk_beatup-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thawk_beatup-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thawk_beatup.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fried chicken restauranteer <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong>&nbsp; is reportedly putting some of his investment cash into a new MMA league called <strong>Global League<\/strong>, which is funded by a $60 million war chest, according to a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/05\/21\/ex-bellator-boss-scott-coker-announces-mma-return-with-tony-hawk-backed-60-million-global-league\/\"><em><strong>Bloody Elbow<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are building something authentic, something that belongs to the athletes and to the fans who live and breathe this sport,&#8221; <strong>Scott Coker<\/strong> said. &#8220;I\u2019ve spent nearly two years developing this concept, and I\u2019m thankful to Peter, all of our investors and the team we\u2019re putting together.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the UFC throwing fists on the White House lawn, what better time to get in on some modern, visceral gladiator action. Beat their ass. Make some cash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/05\/21\/ex-bellator-boss-scott-coker-announces-mma-return-with-tony-hawk-backed-60-million-global-league\/\">Bloody Elbow<\/a> Photo: Gemini AI]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fried chicken restauranteer Tony Hawk&nbsp; is reportedly putting some of his investment cash into a new MMA league called Global League, which is funded by a $60 million war chest, according to a story on Bloody Elbow. \u201cWe are building something authentic, something that belongs to the athletes and to the fans who live and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66265"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66282,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66265\/revisions\/66282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}