Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim heavyweight champion Shane Carwin is coming back to mixed martial arts (MMA) at some point later this year, or perhaps in early 2017, as promised.
But it won't be inside the Octagon.
The full-time engineer is no longer operating under the UFC banner and has now started pursuing rival fight promotions.
"We decided mutually that my value and what I bring to the heavyweight division will be better utilized elsewhere," Carwin wrote on mixedmartialarts.com. "I am now a free agent. The heavyweight division has a lot of great fights and not all of them are in the UFC.