Despite Rumors, UFC and Fedor Emelianenko Not In Talks

Yesterday we relayed Dana White’s seemingly renewed interest in getting Fedor Emelianenko and Gegard Mousasi into the UFC. His words and other rumors led to widespread talk that the UFC and M-1 Global were in talks to bring the fighters into the UFC fold. Of course, this talk did seem to ignore the fact that it would be considered tampering for the UFC to go after fighters who have exclusive U.S. contracts; but facts never get in the way of internet rumors.

Today the M-1 Global website has an official statement up from co-owner and president Vadim Finkelchtein: