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Kennedy hunted Hitler, may never return to MMA
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<p>“No one for sure can say Adolf Hitler is dead.”<br />
Thomas J. Dodd, US trial counsel at Nuremburg
A new investigative series from The History Channel called 'Hunting Hitler' explores the historical possibility that Hitler escaped Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, and fled to German communities around South America.
The series hired UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy to travel to South America and assist in the investigation. The fighter was hired in his capacity as a world-class soldier; no mention of his MMA career is made.
“I was like, wait, Hitler died in 1945,” said Kennedy to Ben Fowlkes for MMAjunkie. “Everybody knows this. This is ridiculous, and I don’t want to waste my time with some stupid conspiracy stuff. But the more involved I got, and the more research they sent me, the more questions it raised.”
“I have so many of these opportunities right now. If you want me to fight, you’ve got to give me a guy I can’t wait to sink my teeth into. Otherwise, it’s not worth it. I don’t need the money. I make way more money doing this stuff, and I don’t get brain damage traveling to some of the most beautiful places on the planet with a $2 million-per-episode budget trying to find a war criminal. It’s way more fun.”
“(My family) see that this is a blossoming career for me. And they say, ‘Please do that from now on. Please don’t get hit in the face anymore.’ And that’d be nice. No more guys not getting off stools or guys injecting themselves with whatever. No more drama.”
“They talk about the retirement itch. I’ve never retired, but I know I’m going to have that itch until I die. … I train two or three times a day, and that kind of scratches the itch. I’ve also been talking about doing some grappling competitions, and that scratches it a little bit too. But nothing really does it, like a big old stick scratching a bear’s back, like getting in there and fighting. And they know that. They use that. But I have to have a real reason to come back.”
Kennedy described the odds of his returning to MMA as 50-50.
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