The 37-year-old closes his 15-year MMA career with a respectable 18-6 professional record. However, the former Green Beret dropped his last two bouts in TKO fashion. The biggest wins of Kennedy’s career came against eventual UFC champions Michael Bisping and Robbie Lawler.
While Kennedy will be leaving the cage, he won’t be far from the MMA scene. Kennedy is part of the five-member (possibly four now that Donald Cerrone appears to be slowly backing away), that launched the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association (MMAAA) in November, a group that is taking the UFC head-on in fighting better treatment from the UFC for all of its fighters – past, present and future.