Chael Sonnen tog under det senaste avsnittet av sin podcast upp Tim Kennedys omtalade match mot Yoel Romero och den sistnämndes ”stoolgate” under UFC 178.
Kennedy har haft svårt att släppa händelsen och har vid flera tillfällen tagit upp sitt missnöje.
Det här hade Sonnen att säga om Kennedy, via sin podcast:
Have you seen some of the stuff he’s saying lately? He’s threatening to never come back to the sport because he’s so upset about ‘Stoolgate. This guy’s one of these guys that, for me, he gets a pass. I’m an American, he’s an American hero. He served the country well. He did some things; he’s a hero. That’s where it ends.
The guy says some stuff that if he wasn’t a hero – somebody needs to tell him to shut up. Tim, you gotta stop, man. You’re so bitter.
Tim was so worked up about it. I’m going, ‘Tim, anything that you want to do and all of this anger, man, I’m for it.’ We’re for that before the fight. But when the fight’s done, when the pay-per-views are sold, when the cage is being torn down, shut up. Give the other guy his 15 minutes, whether he earned it or he was gifted it. Give him his 15 minutes and walk away.
Tim Kennedy reagerade på det hela och så här svarade han på det, via ”MMAJunkie”:
Chael is being an ignorant idiot that evidently doesn’t have any idea what he’s talking about.
I didn’t walk back to Yoel – Yoel was chasing me down after the fight trying to apologize for cheating. Watch the video. It’s very clear that is exactly what happened.
I haven’t said a thing for the past five weeks; all I’ve been doing is hunting. But I guess I shouldn’t worry about it. It’s coming from a retired, PED using felon. Maybe he’s trying to promote a fight in Metamoris, and if that is the case, I will happily choke him out.
Kennedy skadade även sitt knä under matchen och uttryckte sedan osäkerhet om han skulle fortsätta sin karriär inom UFC. Han har dock i efterhand hävdat att han inte har några planer på att gå i pension.
