Fighter New Year’s resolutions
Chael Sonnen, Tim Kennedy, Julie Kedzie, Tommy Toehold, Ian McCall, Robin Back, and Demetrious Johnson offer their New Year’s resolutions.
The Ancient Romans began the year by making vows to the god Janus, for whom the month of January is named. That tradition endures, and fighters are of course no exception.
Crooklyn reached out to a number of figures in the MMA community for their New Year’s resolutions.
Tim Kennedy: My New Year’s resolutions are as follows: 1st. Exterminate poachers, and those that facilitate human trafficking. 2nd. Destroy some world champions and loudmouths i.e. Chael Sonnen at Metamoris. 3rd. Ride my motorcycle more, drink more brown booze and enjoy barbeque on occasion.
Chael Sonnen: I would say my New Year’s Resolution is to kick Tim Kennedy’s ass but life has beaten me to it.
Julie Kedzie: Ummmmm I will cook a successful pancake and learn to appreciate whiskey in 2015. I would also like to make this the year that Tommy Toehold proposes. I’m not sure if that’s a resolution, but I’m gonna marry that cartoon motherf—er.
Tommy Toehold: My New Year’s resolutions are to put shows out on a semi-monthly basis, somehow make my impressions of fighters even worse than they already are, run jokes so far into the ground they actually resurface, say “f—” a whole lot more as a substitute for actual humor, make light of injuries, dick kicks, DUIs and all the other bad stuff that happens in MMA this year, and last, but certainly not least, settle my tab at the local strip club here in Toontown!
Ian McCall: To take what’s mine by force…I will be champ in 2015.
Robin Black: This year I’m committed to giving my very best to break down the greatest fights of the greatest martial artists in the world. I also resolve to be a better person, be more considerate of others and to learn how to cook.
Demetrious Johnson: Stay healthy and be a good father and husband, and to have successful title defenses. That comes last on the priority list.
Kenendy offered further throughts, via Twitter:
To all you New Year’s resolution people that will be crowding my gym for the next six weeks… I hate you.
So UG, marrying that mother f@$%er Tommy Toe Hold is of course a given, but what are your other New Years resolutions?