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[Cat--Smasher]

Tim Kennedy: “I’m getting real sick of this MMA scene right now.”

“I’m getting real sick of this MMA scene right now. Waiting around for fights and the politics between Strikeforce and Showtime and the UFC and Zuffa. I’m just kind of getting over it, man. I miss the simplicity of life as a soldier,” said Kennedy. “So, I don’t know. I don’t know what I want to do. I have some extreme survival and athlete type shows possibly going and, so, I don’t know, man, I don’t know. It’s going to be a curious year. I haven’t fought in…months. Now it will be a year before my next fight. A year lay off, and not by choice. I was out two weeks with an injury in a twelve month time frame? It’s shenanigans. If my job is to fight and I only get a fight once every twelve months I can’t afford to keep fighting. I gotta do something else, I have to figure it out.”

Kennedy is also understandably in tune with world news, particularly related to potential conflict in the world, and sees the distinct possibility of having to return to the battlefield full time depending on how messy things get between Israel-Iran in the coming months. Though the bulk of his attention is still on Mixed Martial Arts his mind is still very aware of how numbered his days in the sport may be whether by choice or otherwise.

“Fight-wise, I’m training my butt off. I’m supposed to fight Luke Rockhold when his hand is better. I would fight him next week if his hand was better. I’m training as if I have a fight in two months, even though I know he just got his cast off,” explained the candid Kennedy of his present circumstances. “Is my focus going to be shifting (to military duties)? Uh, not yet. It may be a little premature. I’m still going to be training a lot with my unit. I’m still working on a lot. But no. Day to day not much will change, it’s just always going to be on mind as to what I’m doing with my time.”

Tim Kennedy:

[ckauffman28]

didnt he just come off of an injury less than a month ago? Kennedy also always seems to threaten to go back to his military duties everytime something doesnt go his way...

[Cat--Smasher]

Originally Posted by ckauffman28

didnt he just come off of an injury less than a month ago? Kennedy also always seems to threaten to go back to his military duties everytime something doesnt go his way...

Selfish asshole.

[SWIFTboy]

It’s shenanigans.

Fact: When Tim Kennedy calls shenanigans it can lead to a full military tribunal.
...or a covert black ops.

[Supe]

Originally Posted by Cat--Smasher

Selfish asshole.

BAHAHAHAA too funny. What type of prick goes and serves his country when he is unable to work and make money due to his employers. What next...is Tim gonna go work in a soup kitchen and run for public office. I wouldnt put anything past this asshole.

[Masscore]

Originally Posted by SWIFTboy

Fact: When Tim Kennedy calls shenanigans it can lead to a full military tribunal.
...or a covert black ops.

[Sniggles]

Another case of Strikefarce being Strikefarce. I can't believe Zuffa didn't just shoot the dying horse in the face. They are simply too worried about the antitrust lawsuit to do the proper thing.

I would like to see SF drop it's roster to an amount of fighters that it can actually employ. It is not just a select few fighters that are constantly complaining. When you have 62 fighters and you put on a whopping total of 6 events in 6 months you aren't going to be able to have every fighter compete.

Having 2 vacant belts at the same time is just pathetic.

Let Bellator absorb all this talent so they can actually find these fighters opponents. WEC is proof that Zuffa cannot market two different promotions at the same time and they have shown this again in the past 6 months.

[H0SS]

Originally Posted by Cat--Smasher

Selfish asshole.

Spit out my drink in laughter when I read that.

[rivethead]

Wait, that toe only took two weeks to heal? That's crazy business, that thing was horrible.

Kennedy is in the unenviable position of having top 10 talent without a top 10 name. Nobody in their right mind wants to fight him, because the risk/reward is so out of balance.

I think he tears up Rockhold, when and if it happens.

rh

[Cat--Smasher]

Originally Posted by rivethead

Wait, that toe only took two weeks to heal? That's crazy business, that thing was horrible.

Kennedy is in the unenviable position of having top 10 talent without a top 10 name. Nobody in their right mind wants to fight him, because the risk/reward is so out of balance.

I think he tears up Rockhold, when and if it happens.

rh

Must of been the same type of toe injury Overeem suffered from leading to his removal from the StrikeForce HW Tourny.