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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Jeremy Stephens is ready to embrace the “King of Violence” monicker against Mike Perry.
Stephens challenges Perry for the “King of Violence” title Oct. 4 at Prudential Center in New Jersey. Stephens did not back down when Perry shoved him during their faceoff at Friday’s BKFC 80 event at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
“I’m willing to go the lengths. You guys don’t get it,” Stephens told MMA Junkie and other reporters. “You guys got Frankie Edgar coming in here. I think the dude’s got brain damage. That’s not even a f*cking joke. If I was his friend, I’d be like, ‘Don’t take the fight.’ You guys think it’s funny. I’m the one risking my life, risking my health, risking it all on the f*cking line to prove myself right. Everybody’s doubted me, everybody’s counted me out. Last time, Eddie Alvarez, my own promoter’s going against me.
“Step into my world, and go in there and crack someone’s jaw like the way I did, and you tell me where I’m at. I’ve been doing this since I was a f*cking kid, putting people out, head kick knockouts, flying knees, ground and pound, bloodiest fight in history, elbows. I’m not scared of Perry. Everybody else is. I think I’m smarter, I’m faster, and he’s just got the status. I’m coming here to f*cking prove I’m the baddest motherf*cker in combat sports history, and the bloodiest in combat sports. That’s me. I’m him.”
Stephens, a 35-fight UFC veteran, is coming into the bout with a chip on his shoulder.
“I don’t give a f*ck about what he’s doing,” Stephens said of Perry. “He’s sloppy, f*cking swinging. I’m worried about me doing me. I’m worried about paying my motherf*cking bills. You don’t pay my bills. I don’t give a f*ck about you, so I’m not worried about you. I’m in the zone right now. It’s a focus, it’s a drive, it’s a discipline, it’s a ‘f*ck you’ attitude. I don’t care. Y’all going against me.
“You think he’s bigger, you think he’s badder. Watch what the hardest-hitting ’45’er goes and does. I’ve been doing show stoppers since I fought on undercards with Cain Velasquez. People remembered my f*cking name. They’re like, ‘Damn, where’s all this blood coming from.’ I was the first fight on the card. People are always going to remember my f*cking name. It’s forever etched in the history books, and I get to take out another legend and put him on my f*cking wall.”
