Who should Kennedy fight now?

[Jawth]

Now that Machida is fighting Munoz at Fight Night 30, who should step in to fight Tim Kennedy?

Rich Franklin has said he wants one more fight, I think he would be a good choice.

 

[Joseph Budden]

Anyone but Francis Carmont.

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

Bisping

 

[ngn21]

franklin sounds good to me

 

[Maladroit]

Nick Diaz

 

[Gigaton Punch]

Going over the entire active MW roster these are the only viable replacements:

Alan Belcher
Derek Brunson
Chris Camozzi
Francis Carmont
Rich Franklin
Ed Herman
Brian Houston
John Howard
Lorenz Larkin
Cung Le
Thales Leites
Ronny Markes
Costa Philippou
Yoel Romero
Ronaldo Souza
Brad Tavares

Brunson, Camozzi, Houston, Larkin, Markes & Romero are all possibilities because they're all on the Troops card already but none of them are main event names so they're extremely unlikey which leaves us with

Alan Belcher
Francis Carmont
Rich Franklin
Ed Herman
John Howard
Cung Le
Thales Leites
Costa Philippou
Ronaldo Souza
Brad Tavares

Belcher can theoretically be in a main event but he's lost 2 in a row so that's unlikely. Carmont makes a lot of sense ranking wise but is boring as fuck. Dana wants Rich to retire but Rich still wants to fight. Not sure he could make it son short notice though. Herman already has a fight booked but as we saw with Machida being pulled, he can still fill in and he does have some name value. Howards fight with Hall really sucked and he's just getting back in the UFC. I don't see him being thrown in a main event so quickly. Cung Le is supposed to be doing TUF China soon but maybe he can do them a favor by taking the fight. Leites has name value and is coming off of a great win over Watson. He'd make sense. Costa just lost that snoozer against Carmont. A Jacare rematch makes sense as well but Jacare got hurt against Okami and I don't know the extent of the injury. Tavares has won 4 in a row but hasn't exactly made waves and is not ready for a main event imo.

So, best possible choices imo would be
Rich Franklin
Ed Herman
Cung Le
Thales Leites
Ronaldo Souza

I'm gonna guess Thales gets the fight but would love to see either Franklin or Le take the fight

 

[J Danger]

Brian stann comes out if retirement for a USA vs USA fight for the troops.. Haha

 

[MixMartialFarts]

Yushin Okami

 

[The_Renaissance]

Fuck knows. Franklin is a solid option, if he's game. If not, Maybe Carmont I suppose seen as though he's now a top 10 fighter apparently. Kenendy/Carmont would be the most boring fight of the year though.

My money would be on Thales Leites. Poor headliner.

 

[Arkridge]

Brad Tavares.

 

[Raul24]

Brian stann comes out if retirement for a USA vs USA fight for the troops.. Haha

I like your idea

that fight should have this theme song all over it

[YT]dZQwKVspiMA[/YT]

 

[Kneeuinthenutz]

There will be no MW who steps up and asks to fight Kennedy.

On a side note, Munoz is going to be obliterated.

 

[NeverEnough]

Brian stann comes out if retirement for a USA vs USA fight for the troops.. Haha

hmm, Army vs Marine Corps.....I like it

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Carmont?

 

[shonuf]

BRAD TAVARES is really the only guy I can see that would make any sense. There's not much at all. Or pull Tim Boetsch since his new fight sucks.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...rue&sortcolid=22&sortasc=true&rowsperpage=250

 

[Hoist Gracie]

Fidel Castro

 

[Insightfulfan**]

Get Cung Le in there.

 

[boz]

Brad tavares. He deserves a good fight.

 

[Lavitz]

Jon Fitch

 

[BionicCommando]

Carmont vs Kennedy can be pretty much classified as cruel and unusual punishment. Over five rounds? Good lord no.


I'll go outside the box here and predict Phil Davis vs Tim Kennedy at 205 lbs.