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Tim Kennedy may be only 30 years old, but he’s already lived two very different lives. What’s more, he’s lived them both more or less simultaneously, balancing a pro fighting career with his duties as a Special Forces soldier in the US Army.
It’s difficult for Kennedy (11-2) to say which career he’s more proud of. He feels like he’s accomplished more in the military, he says. Becoming a Green Beret, an Army Ranger, and a Special Forces sniper, earning a Bronze Star for valor – those are achievements that bring a special kind of satisfaction.
“But at the same time,” Kennedy notes, “ten days after Ranger school I got a two-day notice to fight Dante Rivera in the IFL, and taking a fight like that after being in Ranger school for two, three months, and then going in there and knocking him out, that’s a pretty good feeling too.”