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LongWire · 09-25-2009, 05:14

Sorry can't include the text.....fucking overseas with bad connection!!!!!

Army Times

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/0...nnedy_092409w/

Here's another with text:

http://www.411mania.com/MMA/news/117...es-Network.htm

Strikeforce To Air On The Armed Forces Network
Posted by Larry Csonka on 09.24.2009

Starting with Friday night’s Strikeforce Challengers event…

Strikeforce announced today that starting with Friday night's Strikeforce Challengers event, that their events will air on the American Forces Network. The deal calls for all STRIKEFORCE events for the remainder of 2009 to be distributed on AFN including the Nov. 7 M-1 Global co-promotion of Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers, airing live on CBS Television Network. The debut offering, this Friday's Strikeforce Challengers event on SHOWTIME, features American military hero Tim Kennedy, the 29-year-old Special Forces soldier who has served tours of duty in Middle East, versus undefeated middleweight Zak Cummings in the main event from Tulsa, Okla. Strikeforce's Scott Coker had the following to say on the deal…

"We are proud to be able to bring live Strikeforce events to the men and women of The United States Armed Forces. These are people that have dedicated their lives to protecting our country so it's great to be able to give something back to them. And the timing couldn't be better. Having Army Ranger Tim Kennedy headline a terrific Challengers event is the perfect start."

A thrilled Tim Kennedy commented…

"This is freaking fantastic news. Right now, the Special Forces group that I recently left are deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan . Every single friend of mine is over there and I was planning on emailing every one of them the results of my fight right after it finished on Friday, but instead they get to watch it. I'll be emailing everyone tonight and telling them and letting them know.

"It [MMA] attracts the same kind of people: Intense, excited, aggressive, athletic type people. Also, the skills that guys use in MMA are skills that guys use to stay alive in combat. Boxing, wrestling, Jiu-Jitsu, that's stuff that soldiers use to survive. Some of the Special Forces guys train in that stuff everyday. And for them to get to watch some of the guys that are the best in the world at it is exciting."

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LongWire Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: N.E.WA Posts: 1,137	Good Deal for AFN-Kennedy Sorry can't include the text.....fucking overseas with bad connection!!!!! Army Times http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/0...nnedy_092409w/ Here's another with text: http://www.411mania.com/MMA/news/117...es-Network.htm Strikeforce To Air On The Armed Forces Network Posted by Larry Csonka on 09.24.2009 Starting with Friday night’s Strikeforce Challengers event… Strikeforce announced today that starting with Friday night's Strikeforce Challengers event, that their events will air on the American Forces Network. The deal calls for all STRIKEFORCE events for the remainder of 2009 to be distributed on AFN including the Nov. 7 M-1 Global co-promotion of Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers, airing live on CBS Television Network. The debut offering, this Friday's Strikeforce Challengers event on SHOWTIME, features American military hero Tim Kennedy, the 29-year-old Special Forces soldier who has served tours of duty in Middle East, versus undefeated middleweight Zak Cummings in the main event from Tulsa, Okla. Strikeforce's Scott Coker had the following to say on the deal… "We are proud to be able to bring live Strikeforce events to the men and women of The United States Armed Forces. These are people that have dedicated their lives to protecting our country so it's great to be able to give something back to them. And the timing couldn't be better. Having Army Ranger Tim Kennedy headline a terrific Challengers event is the perfect start." A thrilled Tim Kennedy commented… "This is freaking fantastic news. Right now, the Special Forces group that I recently left are deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan . Every single friend of mine is over there and I was planning on emailing every one of them the results of my fight right after it finished on Friday, but instead they get to watch it. I'll be emailing everyone tonight and telling them and letting them know. "It [MMA] attracts the same kind of people: Intense, excited, aggressive, athletic type people. Also, the skills that guys use in MMA are skills that guys use to stay alive in combat. Boxing, wrestling, Jiu-Jitsu, that's stuff that soldiers use to survive. Some of the Special Forces guys train in that stuff everyday. And for them to get to watch some of the guys that are the best in the world at it is exciting." __________________ "Most of us here can attest that we never took the easy way. Easy just is............easy. Life is a work in progress, and most of the time its a struggle." ~ Me "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "A Government that is losing to an insurgency is not being outfought, it is being out governed." Bernard B. Fall Last edited by LongWire; 09-25-2009 at 05:18.
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