I’m a Kennedy fan, but I never like it when fighters complain like this after they lose a fight. Sure it wasn’t the most exciting fight, but Mr. Kennedy….Kennedy: He won. If you don’t like the way he fights, knock him out or submit him. It comes down to you, not your opponent.

I’m a huge Kennedy fan but that’s some weak sauce. Maybe he’s just trying to antagonize Jacare so he can get a quick shot at the title again, but still.

It’s the classic problem for fighters who just want to throw the fuck down in the spirit of the “who is the toughest” mindset. Like who’s the biggest and baddest in the village proper (answer on page 45). Those days are behind us, those halycon days of Vale Tudo and Ultimate Fighting and No Holds Barred. The game was to put the other guy away. To fight.

Mixed Martial Arts is a sport and while it does speak to that desire to see who’s the toughest and gutsiest, it’s not actually abotu that. Much like the Queensbury rules of boxing, it’s a ruleset constructed around winning according to a specific set of criteria. The game is to demonstrate better skills, and a stoppage is merely an early conclusion to a contest.

Or something? How you guys doing?

get over it Tim, you’re better than this. Go knock out Manhoef & campaign for the title again. Please don’t Sonnen your reputation.

I don’t like this guy. Yeah Jacare didn’t have to most exciting fight, but I thought Kennedy was fighting conservatively too. He should have gone after him harder. It’s just sour grapes that he lost the decision. Lame.

Kennedy also used excuses after getting beat after the 2ndJason Miller fight He said cooments such as he did not have time to train, Was more focused on his upcoming service then training for the fight, etc The turned me off to rooting for him back then. I remember when the decision was read I yself scored the fight for 49-46 Jacare and if I remember right I just barley gave Kennedy the 4th round I think it was ?

The thing I remember about that fight is how shocked and then how pissed Kennedy got from such a one sidded decision after the decision was read . It was quite dam obvious to all who watched the fight who won that fight exsept Kennedy himself. I could not get over his facial and body expressions after the decision was read and he lost. I will always remember how Shcoked & mad he got as he pulled away from the ref with a look of total disgust on his face from the decision that was read. From the interviews after Kennedy actually thought he was on the wrong side of a bad decision ? Kennedy actually thought he was on the wrong side of a bad/horrible decision in that fight.

He’s still whining about this. Incredible.

He will be on our podcast next week. We will discuss this….

about being at a red light and getting rear ended. And the person whose fault it is getting out of the car and whining:

“Why were you stopped at a legal red light and let me hit you doing 80!!?!?”

Yeah.

This is just like Jeremy Stephens bitching about how Melvin didn’t come forward and stand toe to toe with him. You always get this kind of thing when someone faces someone more technical than them. I agree fighter’s should look to engage and make it a fight but not just throw the gameplan out the window. These guys spend weeks and months formulating specific gameplans for their opponents and 99% of the time that doesn’t include “stand and bang.”

Between wanting to put on an exciting fight and bitching because you got outgamed. I think this crosses over into the latter. It’s one thing if a guy uses his world class wrestling to hold you down and you just aren’t able to keep the fight consistently anywhere, but it’s another entirely to bitch because someone jabbed you to death. Do you know what’s longer than a jab? A kick. Do you know what else you can do? Slip the jab. You can make it an exciting fight on your feet. You can’t lay that all on the other guy the way you can if you got LnP’d. Put in a tampon and do your part. If a guy knows he can jab and run on you the whole fight and you’re not going to cut off the cage or do anything about it, it’s your damn fault.

Hell, even if you do get LnP’d, you bear some of the responsibility.