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Retired UFC fighter Tim Kennedy apologizes after admitting to lying about military accolade

BAD MMA News — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:30:00 +0000

Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Retired UFC fighter Tim Kennedy issued an apology after admitting that he lied about a specific military accolade he never actually received during his years of service.

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Mike Perry issues apology to police officers following DUI arrest

BAD MMA News — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:24:34 +0000

Former UFC welterweight and Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship standout Mike Perry was arrested in the early morning hours of Oct. 12 and charged with driving under the influence. Video of the arrest laster emerged showing Perry berating police officers. On Wednesday, Perry issued an apology via social media for his actions and for the ‘inappropriate and disrespectful language’ that he directed toward police officers. “I am writing this to express my deepest apologies for the inappropriate and disrespectful language I used towards members of the Clermont police department

Somewhere between complaints and apologies, real discussion on fighter pay waits

BAD MMA News — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:20:00 +0000

There’s a predictable script that comes with complaints about fighter pay these days. Actually, maybe it’s more like a flowchart. Is the complaining fighter in question a former UFC employee, now making his living elsewhere? If so, then you can count on hearing UFC president Dana White dismiss him as another UFC washout still smacking his lips over sour grapes. Is the fighter retired or inactive or so high up the food chain that he can’t be brushed off as an inconsequential malcontent? In that case, hey, everyone wants to make more money. But in the case of current UFC fighters, such as Tim Kennedy , who recently compared MMA fighter pay – unfavorably, just in case you were wondering – to a job “empty[ing] trash cans,” that’s when we can sit back and wait for the inevitable backtracking . Two days after Kennedy called that state of fighter pay “pathetic” in an interview with the GrappleTalk podcast, he apologized in a Facebook statement where he called his own choice of words “poor” and “not properly informed.” He also claimed his comments were “taken out of context,” which is athlete-speak for, “I didn’t realize I was going to get in trouble.” Just so we’re all clear, the context was Kennedy being asked whether fighters who have outside jobs can still be fully committed to MMA, and then responding by saying that they kind of need them, since the current state of fighter pay is “pathetic.” Kennedy was the one who brought up the issue in the first place , and it seems logical to assume that he didn’t spontaneously change his position in the two days between when his comments went public and when he issued the apology.

Ronnie Mann: Bellator gave me the Cage Warriors’ buyout money as an apology

BAD MMA News — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

After Cage Warriors bought out his contract, Ronnie Mann said his split with Bellator MMA was amicable, especially since officials from his former home gave him a nice parting gift. As announced this past week, Cage Warriors paid $5,000 to buy out Mann’s contract, and the U.K.-based organization promptly signed him to a new five-fight deal. And though Bellator had every right to keep the money, Mann said they ultimately gave it to him instead. “As an apology – that’s why I’ve been saying they’re a great company – they are going to donate that $5,000 to myself for keeping me on the shelf so long,” he today told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “I haven’t gotten it yet, but they said they said they’re going to transfer it to me. “They said they kept me on the shelf, and that’s an apology for doing so.” Mann (21-6-1), who was born in Thailand but not calls England home, was once of Bellator’s biggest signings, but the 26-year-old’s bookings were sporadic after he fell short in a pair of eight-man tournaments. Although he fought four times in 2011, he registered just one Bellator appearance in 2012. He’s also fought just once this year.

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