Middleweight contenders Tim Kennedy and Michael Bisping will settle their score in the Octagon in a five-round main event at The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia. In the meantime, they'll be trash-talking one another with blogs on Yahoo Sports.

Every fighter – myself included – says things like “this is my best camp ever” all the time but, having spent many sleepless nights thinking perhaps I’d never be in camp for a fight ever again, I genuinely feel like I’m in the greatest camp of my life right now. I don’t know if the break recharged my love of the gym or I’m just that excited to be back doing what I love, but I am flying through this camp and can’t wait to get to Quebec City, Canada to make short work of Tim Kennedy on April 16.

I’m sure readers of Yahoo Sport’s MMA section know that I haven't fought in over a year due to a serious eye injury. Basically, I injured the eye in my January 2013 fight against the lovechild of Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds and it got progressively worse and worse and ultimately I was told I had a detached retina. But, after seeing some of the best doctors in the world and getting the best treatment I’m back and I’m back in a big fight, a main event, and against a top-10 fighter in Tim Kennedy on Fox Sport 1.

I suppose readers expect me to respond to Kennedy’s first blog for Yahoo Sports … to be honest, I couldn’t care less about what that guy has to say. He’s a powerful, dangerous fighter but I don’t respect him as an individual very much. I’ve never met the guy, never interacted with him, but when someone continually takes shots at you in the media and on Twitter, you begin to work up an appetite to beat them up.

In his blog he went over all the same stuff he’s been saying about me for years. I’m a dirty fighter, I am a loud mouth, I beat up his friend Jorge Rivera three years ago and then there was the almost obligatory Brit-bashing, complete with references to 1775 and my English accent.

If he’d traveled to other countries for any other reason than to go shoot people, he’d have learned there’s a great, big world out there full of different people, unique cultures and diverse ways of living. And, yes, people outside the United States don’t all sound like Fox News presenters, genius.

To be honest, I can’t even pretend to be interested in his pathetic attempts at trash talk. This is a guy who talked crap about Nelson Mandela on the day of the former South African president’s death, so how can anyone take offense to whatever comes out of this clown’s mouth? He claims he dislikes me for this and that, but the truth is he’s jealous of the success I’ve had in my career – he actually tweets about how much I make in each fight – and he’s jealous that I’m a tall, handsome and suave gentleman while he’s from the shallow end of the gene pool.

On the official poster for the fight, they made it look like we’re the same height but I’m 6-foot-2 while he’s a short, stumpy dwarf-like creature who’d probably make a better living getting shot out of a cannon and getting hired out as a circus turn.

I’m doing my very best to work myself up for this fight – I always say I fight better when I dislike someone – but Kennedy is very hard to take seriously. I’m taking him seriously as a fighter and athlete but, as a person, nah.

Kennedy likes to style himself as a straight-talking good ‘ol American boy, but the reality is he talks out of both sides of his face and doesn’t have the guts to stand up for what he says he believes in.

For example, last year he fought on the main card of UFC 162 in his UFC debut. It was a huge card, and he was damn lucky to be showcased on it, but all he did beforehand was moan about how much more money he deserved and blasting the UFC left and right. For a guy who goes on and on about the American Way and being a patriot, Kennedy sure sounds like a Communist.

Comrade Kennedy thinks fighters should be paid the same rate no matter how much – or in his case how little – value they bring to the company or an event. He doesn’t believe in market value, paying your dues or working your way to the top or any of those uncool things. He wants to come out of the military, do MMA as a second career, not be that great at it, but be paid as much as an eight-year UFC veteran in his very first UFC fight.

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