Fedor not in UFC? Here we go again

M-1 Global officials are denying this report in the L.A. Times that Fedor Emelianenko has inked a deal with the UFC. “I can give you a guarantee it’s not accurate,” Apy Echteld of M-1 Global, the Russia-based promotion and management company of which Emelianenko is an equity stakeholder, told Sports Illustrated.

Echteld declined to comment on negotiations between M-1 Global and the UFC, which are rumored to be taking place Tuesday in Los Angeles. He pointed to a press conference Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif., for “important” news on Emelianenko’s fate.

Accurate? Or is this just a way to throw us off the scent and cover up a leak, especially considering UFC president Dana White would probably love to deliver the news of Fedor’s signing at his own press conference, like the one he has planned for Friday.