![]() ![]() Better that, he says, than subject his father to sweaty underwear hanging in the shower. Tim tells me that, after completing a training session at the Syndicate gym here in town, he hung his sweaty underwear on the hotel-room balcony. "Are you going to come get your sweaty undies off our balcony?" he asks. Before we depart, Mike has a very important question for Tim: Tim discusses dinner plans with Mike, who confirms that he intends to eat with his son and friends. ![]() I understand the feeling as a former military man myself, there are few things I abhor more than being late. There is a door waiting to be destroyed, and Tim doesn't want to be late. ![]() Soon, it is time for Tim to make his way back to the Gerber booth. He isn't breaching doors these days, but he still has the look of a man who could absolutely hurt you. Tim would aim at something imaginary, way off in the distance, and the photographer would snap a photo.īack then, Mike was still breaching doors the old-fashioned way: with a swift foot to the edge of the frame. Mike tells me that Tim actually served as something of a shotgun model for ActiveTac when he was 17 years old. This is simplified, to be sure, but one glimpse at the pump-action beast of a weapon Mike is holding in his hands will lead you to the same conclusion.īoth Kennedy men are well at home in this world. ActiveTac, from what I can tell, takes regular Mossberg shotguns and turns them into terrifying weapons of destruction. The elder Kennedy is retired now, but he is so gregarious and outgoing that his buddies from Active Tactical have asked him to help man their booth and interact with customers. These parties are held on Wednesday night, which means Thursday at the Sands is just a little bit less crowded than others. So everybody here is a little slow."Įach year, the major vendors at SHOT Show join forces and attempt to throw a bigger party than the one they threw the previous year. "Last night was the big party night, and today is recovery day. "You'll notice everybody dragging today," Kennedy says. This is a city filled to overflowing with big industry events. A total of 67,000 will attend, pumping $73 million into the Las Vegas economy through the 1,600 exhibitors taking up 13 acres of space. Public relations staff tells me 75 percent of all weapons sold to dealers in the domestic United States are expected to be sold during this week in Las Vegas. It is the largest show of its kind in the world, and it is not a close race. SHOT Show was founded in 1979 as a trade event for the firearms, shooting and hunting industry. Needless to say, this is not a man to take lightly. He is an Army Ranger, a Special Forces soldier, a sniper with multiple deployments who holds many Army sniper records, a sniper instructor, an Army Combatives Champion at light heavyweight, a Bronze Star award winner and a mixed martial artist. I decide to wait, because lots of men may threaten to kill you, but very few can actually deliver on the promise with ease. I will wait until someone else publishes the story, which eventually happens a few days later. Specifically, Kennedy threatens to gut me if I publish the news. Kennedy tells me I am not allowed to reveal this information under paean of death. It will headline The Ultimate Fighter Nations finale in April, so long as Bisping is medically cleared from an eye injury that has plagued him for the last six months. ![]() One of these eight things Kennedy got is a fight with Michael Bisping. "I had eight things I wanted," Kennedy says. Kennedy's next opponent in the Octagon Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports ![]()
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