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Shane Carwin confirms comeback, but says it won’t be with the UFC
- Updated: September 8, 2016
A former elite heavyweights is plotting a return to MMA. Just not with the UFC.
Shane Carwin confirmed his desire to make a comeback in a post Wednesday on The UG, adding that he is now a free agent. Carwin was under contract with the UFC, but wrote he and the promotion “decided mutually” that he would attempt to compete elsewhere.
“I look forward to freely speaking with the other MMA promotions,” the former UFC interim heavyweight champ wrote. “The Heavyweight division has a lot of great fights and not all of them are in the UFC.”
Carwin, 41, said he and his Ingrained Media management team reviewed his contract and spoke with UFC matchmaker Joe Silva and the promotion’s legal team recently. Things evidently did not work out and …
