UFC is where I belong and it’s just a matter of time. “I will get my shot and I am positive about that. While the opportunity to fight in the UFC has not happened yet, he is confident that he will get the call from the UFC at some point. She was getting checked out in the medical room and fainted while sitting down. Holtzman spends part of his time training at the MMA Lab in Arizona with several current UFC fighters including Benson Henderson and Jamie Varner. She’s okay now, Calderwood’s manager Danny Rubenstein told MMA Fighting. “I had some talks with other companies, larger companies, but I am not really interested unless they have that clause. “The only way I would sign a new contract if it did have that clause,” he said.
While Holtzman would only name Titan as an organization his manager has contacted, would he be open to signing with promotions like Bellator or World Series of Fighting? According to Holtzman, he would only sign with a promotion if there was a clause that allowed him out of the deal if he received an offer from the UFC. To my coaches George Hickman, Frank Hickman, Alex Schild, Andrew Wood, Tarek Suliman, Emilio Urrutia thank you for training me and to all training partners at Tiger Muay Thai for always pushing me, thank you to my manager Danny Rubenstein ,Frances Watthannaya for this incredible opportunity, and thank you to my family whove been with me. I had plenty of other offers that were much better deals than Titan so I will just go with one of those. They think I am worth one thing and I think I am worth a little more so that’s what it is. “That’s no problem and I do not take it personal, that’s business. “My manager kind of reached out to them and they fired back a low ball offered and basically told me I was not worth a whole lot and I would be on the undercard,” said Holtzman. Holtzman tweeted about the offer from Titan recently, which he felt should have been higher than what it was. Since he was released from his contract with the XFC, Holtzman’s manager, Danny Rubenstein has reached out to multiple promotions including Titan Fighting Championship. My contract was supposed to come to term on September 27th and I went ahead to ask for an early release about a month a half ago so I go ahead and start entertaining some offers I had been getting. I had hand surgery, so I am ready to go again and they really do not have any shows on tap. “As a lot of people know there shows are kind of dying down in the Unites States. “I had a great run with the XFC and nothing but good things to say about them,” Holtzman said.
Holtzman announced his status as a free agent on social media last week and the XFC confirmed to on Tuesday that they released the lightweight fighter from his contract so he could explore other options in the sport.ĭuring an interview for this week’s edition of “The MMA Report Podcast,” Holtzman was complementary of the promotion that gave him his start in the sport and explained the decision to ask the promotion out of his deal before it expired next month.
XFC lightweight champion Scott Holtzman was released from his promotional contract with the Florida based promotion last week and he is currently a free agent.