Kennedy: I don’t respect Bisping, he’s dirty
Tim Kennedy: “I think he fights dirty. I don’t even know how many times he’s eye-poked an opponent. He [Michael Bisping] has to hold the record.”
Tim Kennedy is set to fight Michael Bisping at the TUF Nations Finale and couldn’t be happier. He and Bisping have had a heated verbal war of words in the media and that should lead to an exciting fight. Sometimes grudges are manufactured and sometimes they are legit and going into this fight, Kennedy really dislikes Bisping:
Is he a jerk because he’s a loudmouth who likes to talk a lot? Is he a jerk because of what he did three years ago fighting against a friend of mine? Is it his overall dislikeability? Yes to all of that, but it’s how he fights. I think he fights dirty. I don’t even know how many times he’s eye-poked an opponent. He has to hold the record. I’m going to have to talk to FightMetric about that. He probably holds the record for the most significant eye-pokes in the UFC. That’s pretty telling. He does a whole bunch of things. I couldn’t narrow it down to just one thing.
He likes to trash talk and has done a lot of it on Twitter. We’ve traded insults back and forth in social media, but I don’t think there’s anything he can say that would have an effect on me. He can make fun of my family. He can make fun of my military service in the Green Berets. I don’t really respect the guy, so what’s he going to say that’s going to hurt my feelings? I’ll handle things myself. I kind of take everything he says with a grain of salt. I don’t care what he says.
