Previous UFC fighter , Tim Kennedy , said he competed 13 years earlier in a reality TV show with , Matthew Livelsberger, the suspected , person behind the Cybertruck explosion , at , Trump Hotel International.
Authorities said Livelsberger shot himself in the brain before the blast, which injured seven individuals.
Kennedy wrote in an Instagram post on Friday that he and Livelsberger were on the , History Channel , ( now History ) show” Ultimate Soldier Challenge”, where members of military squads would compete against each other in a series of challenges.
” My partner in the competition was  , Matt Burg (aka , Matt Livelsberger )”, Kennedy wrote. ” Next day when I saw old pictures of him on the news, I put up that it was the same person.
” He was a genuine, hard-working, accomplished, and competent , Unique Forces , controller. I am flabbergasted and heartbroken to hear the news. None of this makes feeling and I like many others are confused and want responses.”
Livelsberger was a military activities commander who, like Kennedy, served in the , U. S. Army , as a Green Beret, according to Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff , Kevin McMahill.
Livelsberger was on effective work from , January 2006 , to , March 2011, and joined the , National Guard , from , March 2011 , to 2012, according to an Army director. He was in the , Army Reserve , from , July 2012 , to , December 2012, and entered the active work Army in , December 2012 , and was an Army Special Operations copper.
Before his death, Livelsberger was on left from the Army Special Operations Command, the Army said. McMahill said he was  , on left in , Colorado , when the blast occurred.
Livelsberger and Kennedy were featured on and won season three of the show’s second season titled ” ,U. S. Green Berets , vs. Norway FSK,”  , which aired in , March 2013.
Livelsberger said that before the start of the episode’s final challenge, which simulated an urban combat zone and required him to shoot at targets using a Ruger AR-556 rifle, he had” yet to run into ( a firearm ) that ( he ) could not pick up.”
” My second rifle was an M-4,” a weapons that the event states is similar to the AR-556.
” It’s a specific item that I like to accomplish with my free time.”
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