Kennedy: 90% chance ‘broken steroid addict’ Belfort doesn’t fight Weidman
Tim Kennedy: “He’s a broken steroid addict. If he fights natural, he doesn’t stand a chance against Chris. If he’s juiced to the gills, he’s dangerous to anybody.”
Stephie Daniels does it again with an excellent interview with UFC middleweight, and potential welterweight, Tim Kennedy. Kennedy has of late been the most vocal voice in the UFC condemning Vitor Belfort for his use of sanctioned and unsanctioned performance enhancing drugs, and he does not let up in this interview.
Belfort fight UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman at UFC 181 on December 6, 2014 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, live on PPV. Kennedy says a natural Belfort has no chance against Weidman, and believes there is a 90% chance it never happens.
If Belfort does drop out, Kennedy, who fights Yoel Romero at UFC 178 on September 27, 2014, plans to be standing by.
“He’s a broken steroid addict,” said Kennedy. “If he fights natural, he doesn’t stand a chance against Chris. If he’s juiced to the gills, he’s dangerous to anybody.”
“It’s one of two things. Either he gets to use steroids – he’s training, has wonderful doctors that get him through it al – and he’s able to compete, barely getting through with his drug tests. There’s like a 1 in 10 chance of that scenario happening.
“The other factors are that he tries to be clean, and he realizes that he can’t compete. Or he tries to go clean and gets hurt. Or he just uses the steroids and gets caught. One of those 3 options are the likelihood of the other 90%.”
“I know Luke (Rockhold) was talking about this. He’s 2-1 in the UFC. I’ll be 4-0 after my fight, so I think Jacare and I will have a little bit better position to try to talk our way into a title fight. I fight September 27th, and following that, I’m going to try to be 100% ready for that December fight card. It’s kind of funny that the three Strikeforce guys are the top contenders [laughs].