What became of Josh Barnett? Atencio responds.

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But many are wondering what became of Josh Barnett, who was originally scheduled to face Arlovski for Affliction.



"He was offered the fight," Atencio said. "I couldn't get a hold of him. He was out of the country and it was just how it worked out that it ended up being Roy Nelson and Arlovski. It's a good matchup either way, but now it makes it so that the winner of this fight is in contention to fight Fedor [Emelianenko]."