In February 2018, everything was coming up Jeremy Stephens. He was newly married with a beautiful new home, and he was on a three-fight win streak that had seemingly knocked his opponents into the netherworld.
“Gilbert Melendez is not fighting. I knocked Dooho Choi into pushing paper for the military. Josh Emmett, he’s nowhere to be found,” Stephens says, recounting his most recent victories.
Yet with all of this, something still wasn’t clicking for one of the most feared featherweights in UFC history.
“I just wasn't happy.”
The uneasy feeling came to a head last July in Calgary, when Stephens was felled by Jose Aldo.