Bisping: Kennedy is a socialist Oompa Loompa
“For a guy who goes on and on about the American Way and being a patriot, Tim Kennedy sure sounds like a Communist,” said Michael Bisping.
UFC middleweights MichaelBisping and Tim Kennedy have engaged in a war of words that escalated from sniping on Twitter to Bisping devoting his latest blog to it.
To be honest, I can’t even pretend to be interested in his pathetic attempts at trash talk. This is a guy who talked crap about Nelson Mandela on the day of the former South African president’s death, so how can anyone take offense to whatever comes out of this clown’s mouth?
He claims he dislikes me for this and that, but the truth is he’s jealous of the success I’ve had in my career – he actually tweets about how much I make in each fight – and he’s jealous that I’m a tall, handsome and suave gentleman while he’s from the shallow end of the gene pool.
On the official poster for the fight, they made it look like we’re the same height but I’m 6-foot-2 while he’s a short, stumpy dwarf-like creature who’d probably make a better living getting shot out of a cannon and getting hired out as a circus turn.
I’m doing my very best to work myself up for this fight – I always say I fight better when I dislike someone – but Kennedy is very hard to take seriously. I’m taking him seriously as a fighter and athlete but, as a person, nah.
Kennedy likes to style himself as a straight-talking good ‘ol American boy, but the reality is he talks out of both sides of his face and doesn’t have the guts to stand up for what he says he believes in.
For example, last year he fought on the main card of UFC 162 in his UFC debut. It was a huge card, and he was damn lucky to be showcased on it, but all he did beforehand was moan about how much more money he deserved and blasting the UFC left and right. For a guy who goes on and on about the American Way and being a patriot, Kennedy sure sounds like a Communist.
Comrade Kennedy thinks fighters should be paid the same rate no matter how much – or in his case how little – value they bring to the company or an event. He doesn’t believe in market value, paying your dues or working your way to the top or any of those uncool things. He wants to come out of the military, do MMA as a second career, not be that great at it, but be paid as much as an eight-year UFC veteran in his very first UFC fight.
And for all his bitching and moaning about how much money the UFC should be paying him at UFC 162, Comrade Kennedy had, hands down, the worst fight of the entire UFC 162 card. It was one of the worst main card fights of last year – it was embarrassing. There was so little actual fighting going on, if they’d had that fight on a school playground most teachers wouldn’t have even bothered breaking it up.
Listen, I don’t obsess about what other fighters earn like our socialist friend Timmy does. If someone is getting paid well, providing for their family, great for them. That’s what I am about, too. The only fighter paycheck I’m familiar with has the name Michel Bisping on it, but, that said, whatever the UFC paid Kennedy that night was too f-ing much.
What was hilarious to me was that, after blasting the UFC for not paying him enough and then not fulfilling his contract to actually have a fight at UFC 162, Kennedy immediately lost the courage of his convictions and claimed his statements attacking the UFC were taken out of context.
Taken out of context is a phrase that slimy politicians use when they are desperately trying to claw their way out of saying something they regret. I expected more from the self-proclaimed American Hero.
Like I said, it is impossible to take this square-headed Oompa Loompa seriously when he speaks on any subject.
Bisping and Kennedy fight in the five-round, main-event of The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia, on April 16 in Quebec City, Canada.
