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Tim Kennedy Puts Michael Bisping & Yoel Romero On Blast

After spending over two years on the sidelines, No. 12-ranked middleweight contender Tim Kennedy is set to make his return to action against former light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans at Nov. 12’s UFC 205 from the famed Madison Square Garden in New York. Kennedy was last seen dropping a highly controversial loss to Yoel Romero

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Kennedy was last seen dropping a highly controversial loss to Yoel Romero in September 2014 in a bout where Romero was criticized for the now infamous ‘stool gate’. Kennedy is well aware that he’ll be returning to a completely different division, a division he recently told Submission Radio was a ‘disaster’. He also took the time to put champion Michael Bisping as well as Romero on blast:

“The division’s a mess, man. It’s a disaster,” he said. “It’s anybody’s chance to get that next title fight and everybody wants it because, especially for me, Michael Bisping is the easiest fight in the division. The current champion of the division. If you go down that list, from Chris Weidman, to Jacare, to Luke Rockhold, Derek Brunson – that would be my number two, three, four and five right there. I don’t put Yoel Romero in there because I think he’s a cheater and he shouldn’t even be in the UFC.”

Kennedy actually holds a victory over Bisping and quite a dominant one at that when the two met in April 2014. He now plans to take out Evans in ‘decisive fashion’ and earn a rematch with “The Count”. If the UFC doesn’t see him as a legitimate title threat after UFC 205, however, it could be the end of the road for Kennedy:

“I’m gonna go fight Rashad, I’m gonna beat him in a very, very clear decisive fashion, and Michael Bisping, he has not wanted to utter my name for the past year. He’s been winning, and he might be calling out 47-year-old men that he has losses to, but who he’s not mentioning, is me – the guy that beat him up for 25 minutes. So if he wants to stand there and really be a champion, stop calling out dudes that have been retired for a few years, stop calling out a 47-year-old man. Why don’t you fight a guy that beat the brakes off of you and on November 12th at Madison Square Garden is going to make a huge statement in the division.”

“There’s a really good chance that after this fight you’ll never see me again – well, in the octagon. I’m just getting started in my work outside of the octagon, where you’re gonna probably see me a lot more. But after November 12th, when I beat Rashad, if whoever the matchmaker is going to be in December for the 185 middleweight division, if they’re not talking about me being in the mix, about me as a potential match up against Michael Bisping for the title, then what’s the point?”

Where do you see Kennedy heading after his bout with “Suga”?

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Report: Tim Kennedy vs. Rashad Evans Possible For New York

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No. 12-ranked UFC middleweight contender Tim Kennedy has been out of action since losing a highly controversial bout to No. 4-ranked Yoel Romero at UFC 178 in September 2014. Prior to that, he had won three straight over the likes of Roger Gracie, Rafael Natal, and reigning 185-pound king Michael Bisping, although he hasn’t competed in nearly two years. That will soon change, however, as Kennedy recently took to his official Facebook page to announce that he will be returning and that he has a fight set:

“I have a fight. I can’t tell you anything about it. The UFC has to announce it, but after I come back from South America, I am in shape. I have been training, I knew I had a fight coming up. And now I’m telling you – I have a fight.”

An opponent has yet to named, but Kennedy guaranteed that it was going to be ‘big’, adding in that he’s gunning for a title shot at Bisping after his comeback fight. Ironically enough, Kennedy is the last man to beat Bisping, scoring a dominant decision victory over the Brit in April 2014:

“After this fight, you can’t say that I shouldn’t be the champion. The details of that have to wait for the UFC to tell you when, where and who. But I’m telling you, I’m fighting.”

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“It’s going to be big. Hopefully, Michael Bisping will stay the champ. If he beats Dan Henderson, he has no choice but to defend his title against me. I was the last guy to beat the brakes off him.”

While the UFC has yet to confirm anything, a report has surfaced from FloCombat indicating that the promotion is targeting a bout between Kennedy and former light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans for November 12’s UFC 205 from Madison Square Garden. The fight would mark Evans’ debut at 185-pounds, while the event will mark the UFC’s first trip to New York since the sport was legalized in New York earlier this year.

Stay tuned to LowKickMMA as more news regarding Kennedy’s upcoming return unfolds.

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Tim Kennedy Announces UFC Return Date, Blasts Michael Bisping

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Strikeforce, WEC, UFC and US Army veteran Tim Kennedy still has not fought in the octagon since his controversial loss to Yoel Romero in 2014. That was UFC 178, and now nearly two years later he still hasn’t indicated a firm date for a fighting comeback, if at all. His new show ‘Hunting Hitler’ for the History Channel, as well as other US Army obligations have kept Kennedy away from the UFC’s cameras, but there’s also been a number of issues that Kennedy has been very vocal about.

Of course the loss to ‘Soldier of God’ remains a sour point, and perhaps always will for ‘TK,’ but the Special Forces veteran also harbours bad feelings towards the UFC Reebok deal. He has previously said he has doubts about ever fighting again, but has been chirping a very different tune this week.

Now that Michael Bisping has taken charge of the UFC middleweight division, Tim Kenned has a thing or two to say about the British ‘Count’ being champion. Kennedy defeated Bisping in a one-sided decision in the Ultimate Fighter Nations finale, marking the last time that he tasted victory in MMA competition. Speaking during a Facebook live session, as transcribed by MMAFighting.com, the 36-year old American revealed he still has many doubts about Bisping’s calibre and also announces his return to the UFC:

“What do I think of Bisping winning the title? [Laughs]. Yeah, so Michael Bisping is the current champion in my weight class. You guys know I beat the brakes off him for 25 minutes, pretty much effortlessly.”

“It’s funny because he’s calling out very specific people and my name is not ever coming out of his mouth. For obvious reasons because I could do it again. I could do it tomorrow. I train all the time, but I could seriously destroy Michael Bisping in a matter of minutes if I wanted to.”

“The last time with fought I didn’t like him – I still don’t like him – and I really wanted to make a point to bloody him up. One of my coaches was like, ‘why didn’t you just finish him? Why didn’t you just choke him out? Why didn’t you make him tap?’ Because I didn’t want to. I wanted to put him on his back and punch him in the face for 25 minutes. So that’s what I think about Michael Bisping.”

Finally revealing when he intends to fight again in the UFC, Kennedy says his busy calendar won’t allow him to fight in the octagon until September, but that date is pretty much set:

“I don’t have a day off until November…I leave tomorrow. I’ll be gone for 10 days. I’ll be back for 6 hours to change out bags and then I go to South America for 80 days. Then I come back and the same day that I come back I grab different bags and I go to Albuquerque, New Mexico to start training for my fight camp for my next UFC fight. So then my next UFC fight happens and then I’ll have Thanksgiving.”

Could Kennedy be granted an immediate title shot upon his return? Given it’ll be his 24-month anniversary of absence in September, and also the fact he’s currently ranked 11th in a very busy division, the chances are the Albuquerque based fighter will have to get at least one win under his belt.

Who should Tim Kennedy face in his UFC return, or does his dominant win over Michael Bisping earn him a homecoming title fight? If there’s one thing we learned from UFC 199’s shocking headliner, it’s that Bisping has evolved a lot in a very short time.

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