Jonathan Shrager recently did a no words barred interview with top-10 ranked UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy. The outspoken Kennedy is a Ranger Qualified Green Beret and decorated combat veteran, awarded the Bronze Star for valor under fire.
Fellow UFC middleweight Yoel Romero failed a PED test in January and was looking at the USADA mandated two-year suspension. However, Romero became the first UFC fighter to appeal a USADA suspension, and ended up with six months, based on the argument that Romero took a tainted supplement, rather than knowingly took PEDs. Given that fighters fight on average twice a year, the ultimate suspension was drastically less severe than two years, particularly given that Romero is 38.
Kennedy talks straighter than a laser sight, and he was not impressed.
“When people ask me ‘did you leave because of that controversial loss to Yoel Romero?’ I’m like, yeah that sucked and that was ridiculous and horrific and that guy should never be allowed to fight again,” said Kennedy, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. “But no. It’s a business.”
“At what point did we forget that this guy is a cheater? He’s cheated in every single fight he’s ever been in in the UFC. Every fight. You go back and look at every fight he’s ever been in he’s cheated. Then we find out he’s cheating by having stuff in his body that he’s not supposed to have. We know that it’s in there and that he’s not supposed to have it. And they say ‘okay hey buddy, you just cheated, like you’ve been cheating,’ and now we are going to take him at his word that supplements, that he supplied, he didn’t cheat in what they put in there?
“Every single possibility, whether he added them himself or that he knew that they were in there. The fight camp that he’s part of, you don’t think that they have a system for how to beat these and about how to get suspensions reduced? How to have supplements that they know are dirty? Or they buy supplements and then put stuff that they know would fail the test. They’re cheaters. They cheat. That’s what he has always done.
“This absolute, 100 percent, fits his M.O. No surprise to me. He’s a cheater. And the fact that they are still even considering him a contender is a disgrace to the promotion. And the sport.”
“Yoel Romero is gonna come off his suspension early. In July. That’s interesting. It’s disgusting. He should be suspended for life. And I’ve got to figure out if I’m going to fight him, can we get them not to give him stools or bags of ice or Vaseline or any other apparatus that he could cheat with? Because pretty much anytime you hand him something he’s going to cheat with it….So that would be an intriguing fight.”
Tim Kennedy has created acurriculum with the best of everything he learned fighting the war on terror as a Ranger/Green Beret Sniper killing machine, plus fighting the baddest men on the planet in the Octagon. It includes shooting, hand to hand, weapons defense and retention, situational awareness, etc.
The program is called Sheepdog Response, and the next course is April 22-24 at The Oak Grove Training Center, 158 Rushing Road in Hoffman, NC. TUF winner Colton Smith is one of the assistant instructors. Anyone can register for the event, and no experience is necessary. You can register at sheepdogresponse.com.
This is a package designed to teach people how to carry weapons effectively for the defense of themselves and others, and of course to train their bodies to be weapons as well. The weapons training is better than anything ever offered to civilians. Tim had a big hand in creating the program that all Army Special Forces go through now, and he knows it can be improved upon, and is doing that with this curriculum, and tailoring it to the civilian Sheepdog who can carry a firearm and use it to defend against terrorist attacks, mass shootings, etc., and unarmed attacks.
The courses are not for the faint of heart. This is how to kill and not be killed. This is not a self-defense course. This is a fangs out dynamic shift about who lives and who dies. We continue to see incidents throughout the world where the immediate actions of the first responder determine life or death for the innocent people targeted. The proper response does not come naturally; it must be acquired through proper training and practice, and this is that.
Register at sheepdogresponse.com.
