Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of Tim Kennedy’s last fight in the UFC, which came at UFC 178 against Yoel Romero. That bout -- which ended in a controversial third-round TKO after a sequence in which Kennedy thought he won to end the second -- left a bad taste in his mouth.
During an appearance on The MMA Hour shortly after the Romero loss last fall, Kennedy expressed his dissatisfaction with not only that fight, but also with the business side of MMA. Despondent at the time, he flirted with the idea of retirement.