Jeremy Stephens News

Tom Taylor - February 6, 2017

Jeremy Stephens is keen to channel Rick Grimes and do some zombie hunting. The brick fisted featherweight recently took to social media to campaign for a bout with Chan Sung Jung – better known as “The Korean Zombie.” Stephens hopes the UFC will put this fight together for the UFC’s planned April 15 debut in Kansas City, Missouri, which was first reported by CagePages.com. See Stephens’ Tweet below:

Tom Taylor - December 30, 2016

As the hours between us and the stacked UFC 207 continue to melt away, the UFC has released the fifth instalment of its popular Embedded series for the card.

bjpenndotcom - December 29, 2016

Thursday morning during the UFC 207 early weigh-ins, UFC bantamweight title challenger Cody Garbrandt, and UFC featherweight Jeremy Stephens, who is a teammate of Garbrandt’s opponent Dominick Cruz, were involved in a bit of an altercation backstage. While there has been no video of the altercation, footage of security guards quickly darting backstage to handle the situation while UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes hit the scales, quickly surfaced.

Tom Taylor - December 27, 2016

Last month, on the undercard of the massively hyped UFC 205, long-time featherweight contender Jeremy Stephens came up short in a fun fight with former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. Though he nearly finished his foe with a second-round head-kick, Stephens was outworked for the rest of the fight, culminating in a clear unanimous win for Edgar. With this result, Stephens took a few steps back down the featherweight ladder. He’ll now need a big win against a reputable opponent before he’s talked about as a contender again. He is already on the hunt for that next opponent.

bjpenndotcom - October 20, 2016

Jeremy “Lil Heathen” Stephens was one of the hardest hitting lightweights in the UFC, and has definitely carried that punching power with him at featherweight. “Lil Heathen” posted a video of him training his striking while using resistance training.

bjpenndotcom - October 11, 2016

Jeremy ‘Lil Heathen’ Stephens must be one of the biggest featherweights on the UFC roster. The former lightweight posted a photo on Facebook recently with 170 pound champion Tyron Woodley, and ‘Lil Heathen’ looks bigger than the welterweight champ! See for yourself how Stephens stacks up size-wise with 170 pounders.

Tom Taylor - September 28, 2016

Last night, at the official press conference for the stacked UFC 205, Jeremy Stephens did what very few fighters have the courage to do, and engaged MMA’s reigning trash-talk king Conor McGregor on the microphone. This attempt did not go especially well for the featherweight slugger. I appreciate Jeremy Stephens efforts he but he got totally destroyed by Conor McGregor. 'Who the fuck is that guy?' pic.twitter.com/Q5CyG0f7fk

bjpenndotcom - July 30, 2016

UFC featherweight Jeremy Stephens made headlines early this week when he politely called out former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar for a fight at UFC 205 in New York. While there has been no word yet as to whether or not Edgar is willing to accept the fight, Stephens is looking for another fight. Specifically an unsanctioned one with one of the many MMA keyboard warriors.

Chris Taylor - June 12, 2016

Anthony “Showtime” Pettis (18-5 MMA) recently announced that he would be making the drop to the UFC’s featherweight division. The former UFC lightweight champion is coming off three-straight decision losses in the promotions lightweight division and is looking to find new life at 145-pounds. Waiting for Pettis at 145-pounds appears to be the hard-hitting striker known as “Lil Heathen”. Jeremy Stephens sent out the following tweet requesting to ‘settle the score’ with “Showtime”, with Pettis having defeated him via split-decision in 2011:

bjpenndotcom - May 31, 2016

.@LiLHeathenMMA is celebrating his victory in style. #PROcasthttps://t.co/wQQEiSWWLl — FOX Sports: PROcast (@PROcast) May 31, 2016

Chris Taylor - May 29, 2016

UFC featherweight slugger Jeremy Stephens will square off with former UFC bantamweight champion Renan Barao in the co-headliner of tonight’s UFC Fight Night 88 event in Las Vegas. “Lil Heathen” spoke to MMAJunkie about his gameplan for the fight with Barao. Here is what Stephens had to say:

Russell Ess - May 26, 2016

UFC featherweight Jeremy Stephens is set to welcome former UFC bantamweight champion Renan Barao to the 145-pound division at UFC Fight Night 88.