HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2013 Jeremy Stephens is ready to embrace the “King of Violence” monicker against Mike Perry.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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“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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Stephens, a 35-fight UFC veteran, is coming into the bout with a chip on his shoulder.<\/p>\n
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“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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n