Stephens, an skilled alum of the UFC’s featherweight and light-weight restrict — made his third outing within the ring over the course of the weekend at BKFC Knucklemania V in Philadelphia, headlining the cardboard in a grudge struggle with Eddie Alvarez.
And scoring his third straight win within the promotion, Jeremy Stephens landed a formidable third spherical nook stoppage TKO win over former UFC light-weight champion, Alvarez — having damaged his jaw within the goings of the grudge struggle.
Nonetheless, earlier this week, Jeremy Stephens confirmed he had entered free company following his victory over Alvarez, and was not sure on his quick combating future — as was newly-minted BKFC heavyweight champion, Ben Rothwell.
BKFC plan to resign Jeremy Stephens, goal struggle with Mike Perry subsequent
And in keeping with the above-mentioned, Feldman, nonetheless, the promotion plan to re-up Stephens to a multi-fight deal sooner or later — and are concerned with reserving him to struggle Flint striker, Perry in his return to the ring.
“Yeah, he’s (Jeremy Stephens) a free agent,” Feldman informed Ariel Helwani for Uncrowned. “Um, but, you know, we’re going to we’re going to work on that this week with the with his management team, but, um, he is a free agent. I know you also talked to Ben (Rothwell), and I know you’re probably talking about that. We have a deal, uh, a verbal deal, and we’ve had a deal, and we just said we’re going to we’re going to tie it up after the fight. And, look, I think his, uh, his management team is going to be ethical about this and honor our deal.”
“It’s an increase for Ben. You know, it’s he’s going to make more money, which is obviously why he does this,” Feldman defined. “And, um, you recognize, he received the championship. So I don’t assume that’s any difficulty there in any respect. Ben loves it right here at Bcfc. And he desires to proceed to struggle right here. And we’re going to make that work within the subsequent couple of days. However there was a deal agreed upon. It’s not like I went into this factor blind and mentioned, oh no, what am I doing now? We had every part labored out. We simply didn’t paper it up in time.
