MMA star Tim Kennedy who competed with Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger on ‘History Channel’ reality show speaks out over explosion

“Last night when I saw old photos of him on the news, I put together that it was the same guy.”

“Thirteen years ago I competed in a shooting competition on History Channel called The Ultimate Soldiers Challenge. My partner in this competition was Matt Burg (aka Matt Livelsberger),” he wrote.

“The most important thing I’ve learned in combat is to always have each other’s back, that’s how missions get done successfully,” Livelsberger said.

Livelsberger and Kennedy hadn’t met before the episode was filmed, but placed first in each challenge and won the “Ultimate Soldier Challenge.”

In the final challenge to crown the show’s winner, Livelsberger and Kennedy completed an assault-style mission based on the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid where they had to eliminate live targets and recover several pieces of intel.

Livelsberger, who had been deployed to Afghanistan in 2017 and 2018, was known to be a “Rambo-type patriot” and staunch supporter of President-elect Donald Trump.

“I’ve yet to run into something that I can’t pickup,” he said. “My first pistol was an M-9, which is currently used, my first rifle was an M-4, it’s a personal thing I like to do in my spare time.”

The retired MMA and UFC fighter described Livelsberger as “sincere, hard-working and talented.”

Livelsberger was featured on the third episode of History Channel’s “Ultimate Soldier Challenge,” which aired on March 4, 2013, and forced participants to complete a mock operation of SEAL Team Six’s raid on Osama Bin Laden.

In his victory speech, Livelsberger paid homage “to the guys that came before us and the guys currently serving in Afghanistan.”

“Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took,” he wrote in a suicide note, according to officials.

Livelsberger bragged about his ability to use any weapon during the 43-minute episode.

“We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist! But right now we are terminally ill and headed toward collapse.”

The dedicated soldier returned to active duty in Dec. 2012 as a Special Operations soldier.

The Army Special Forces member, who went by his nickname “Matt Berg,” teamed up with Tim Kennedy against two commandos seemingly from Norway’s Forsvarets Spesialkommando (FSK) unit and a pair of “rogue” military contractors.

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