Forward of his stunning return to the Octagon, Jeremy Stephens stays assured of lastly settling his long-standing grudge with Conor McGregor, following his light-weight return towards Mason Jones at UFC Des Moines in Could.
Stephens, a former perennial featherweight contender, is about to make a stunning return to motion in Could — taking up former two-weight Cage Warriors champion, Jones over the course of three rounds on the light-weight restrict in his native Iowa.
The outing will come as Stephens’ first within the promotion since dropping a kimura submission loss to Mateusz Gamrot again in 2021 on the Apex facility.
And since then, Stephens has amassed large success within the BKFC (Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship), most not too long ago taking up former UFC light-weight titleholder, Eddie Alvarez.
Ending the Philadelphia native within the former’s dwelling city, Stephens did so in entrance of BKFC stakeholder, McGregor — welcoming the possibility to lastly face off with the Dubliner.
Jeremy Stephens chases Conor McGregor battle after UFC Des Moines return
And this night throughout an interview with Ariel Helwani for Uncrowned, Stephens claimed he would safe a battle with McGregor sooner or later — as soon as he topples Welsh contender, Jones in Could.
“We got a lot of history there, but the main focus right now at the end of the day, bro, is just me getting better, showing up on May 3rd, having an absolutely brilliant performance, cracking someone’s leg, cracking, splitting their spleen and, you know, I’ll get what I want and I’ll turn my delusions into reality and I’ll make a statement because, you know, no one else is out there doing it like me,” Jeremy Stephens mentioned.
Who’s risking and naked knuckle? Who will get these alternatives and combating? If I’m going on the market to do what I’m sure and I do know that I can, I’m going to demolish this dude, you already know, and it places me in a extremely, actually good spot and that proper there,” Jeremy Stephens continued. “The huge bag, the massive bag, the thousands and thousands by the top of the yr, and I instructed you this on the content material, I instructed you that sh*t turns me on, bro. So it’s like I’m scorching for this sh*t.
