{"id":173598,"date":"2015-10-28T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=173598"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:36:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:36:25","slug":"kennedy-big-rigg-is-a-harder-fight-than-silva-or-vitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/kennedy-big-rigg-is-a-harder-fight-than-silva-or-vitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy: Big Rigg is a harder fight than Silva or Vitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bAc9hj5mS54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Radio<\/a> about the potential matchups he sees for himself in the middleweight division. Kennedy says the newest threat to the division is former welterweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/johny-hendricks-rushed-to-emergency-room-after-weight-cutting-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johny Hendricks who missed weight<\/a> for the 170 pound limit at <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/hendricks-vs-woodley-pulled-from-ufc-192-after-hendricks-weight-cut-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC 192<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019d be a fun one,&#8221; he said on the radio show. &#8220;You think he\u2019d make 185 pounds?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he was getting ready to cut to 170, he didn\u2019t even make it past, like 187, right? Like, he was cutting and he was at 187, and they were like \u2018whoa, you can\u2019t cut anymore, bro. You\u2019re getting sick\u2019. So I think 185 might be a stretch for him. There are a lot of other guys in the division that I\u2019d be more excited to fight, to include Anderson Silva, who will be coming off, you know, suspension for performance enhancing drugs. The winner of Vitor Belfort, Dan Henderson. That\u2019d be a fun fight. You know, against two legends, both of them love their TRT. Lyoto Machida, Nick Diaz. Those are some fun, fun fights. Johnny Hendricks would be, I think a harder fight than all four of those, but it would be a fight that I would be excited for, regardless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s better. I mean, of all those guys that I just listed, I think Johny Hendricks is better than most of them. Especially stylistically for me, you know, two wrestlers with heavy hands. Stylistically it\u2019s\u2026again, especially compared to Vitor Belfort or Anderson Silva. Both of which, who I think would be very easy fights for me. Style-wise, Johny is a little bit more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy also had very interesting opinions on Dan Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I\u2019m a bad match up for Dan,&#8221; said Kennedy, chuckling. &#8220;Let\u2019s just get down to it. It\u2019s not \u2018stylistically\u2019. You know, he\u2019s not going to take me down. His wrestling\u2019s not good enough to stop my takedowns, and fundamentally I\u2019m a better striker than he is. So he really has one shot, and that\u2019s going to be his big right hand, \u2018H-Bomb\u2019. So that\u2019s getting slower, as h&#8217;s weaker with his age, as his chin is. So it\u2019s, you know, I don\u2019t know. We\u2019re kind of both like &#8216;Go America&#8217; type guys. So that\u2019s not cool. Two America-type guys fighting. And so I think the foundation for what he was saying was: \u2018I don\u2019t want to fight Tim because it\u2019s a bad match up for me. I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m gonna beat him, besides maybe landing a lucky punch.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Vitor Belfort, Kennedy had a lot of criticism for \u201cThe Phenom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh he\u2019s cheater,&#8221; Kennedy claimed. &#8220;He\u2019s always been a cheater. He\u2019s been cheating since he was like 19 years old. In fact I think he failed his first steroid test when he was like 20 or something. That\u2019s crazy. And now he\u2019s old as hell, and he\u2019s still cheating. So I don\u2019t know why people are acting surprised. I think the biggest story of this is that the UFC, you know, potentially covered this up for him to go ahead and fight in the main event fight. That\u2019s a tragedy. There\u2019s no surprise that Vitor Belfort\u2019s cheating. He\u2019s always been cheating. There\u2019s no surprise there. Like, the guy\u2019s been cheating for forever. So all you guys that love Vitor Belfort, \u2018cause he has all these fantastic, fun-to-watch knockouts. Guess what? He\u2019s a cheater. Nothing\u2019s ever changed about him. You\u2019ve seen some things, maybe, evolve in this game slightly. The only thing that\u2019s stayed true is he\u2019s always cheated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who do you want to see Kennedy matched up against? Post your matchups in the comment section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy spoke with Submission Radio about the potential matchups he sees for himself in the middleweight division. Kennedy says the newest threat to the division is former welterweight champion Johny Hendricks who missed weight for the 170 pound limit at UFC 192. \u201cThat\u2019d be a fun one,&#8221; he said on the radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":160665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kennedy: Big Rigg is a harder fight than Silva or Vitor | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy stalks about the potential matchups he sees for himself in the middleweight division. 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