Recently heavyweight fighter Shane Carwin claimed that he’d been offered him a fight with Fedor Emelianenko, but the Russian legend hadn’t put pen to paper to make it a reality.
However, now Fedor has responded, claiming that he was never contacted about the match-up.
“We are now negotiating my next fight, but the contract is not signed with any organization,” Fedor stated on his Instagram page. “Before the official announcement, all information about the negotiations are confidential and neither party can not disclose it. As long as I’ve been training as usual, has not yet started to prepare the specific opponent. Today, many people use the lack of information about my next fight for their own purposes.”
Emelianenko then focused specifically on Carwin’s claims.
“We were not and are not conducting negotiations for a fight with the company Rizin. Therefore, the information regarding Shane Carwin’s acceptance to meet me in the ring is surprising for me. No proposals from the Japanese promotion arrived to me. In the near future we will announce the date of my fight from official sources.”
Carwin has since signed with the Rizin promotion and will fight in their openweight tournament later this year.
As for Fedor, the latest rumor is that he’s on the verge of signing to fight Matt Mitrione in the Bellator cage early next year.
