Biography
Jeremy Stevens had a difficult childhood, but Sport became his salvation. A man became famous as a veteran of UFC, able to lead a fierce fight and defeat rivals with spectacular knockouts.Childhood and youth
Jeremy Dean Stevens appeared on May 26, 1986 in the city of De Moines, USA. Early years of the boy's biography were distinguished by difficult: when he was 8 years old, the parents divorced, and by decision of the court the son remained with his mother. The woman suffered from drug addiction, because of what young Jeremy had to spend the night in the car and wander on the shelters for homeless. He was hungry, strolled school and more and more often spent time in dubious companies.
Only when Stevens was in the 5th grade, the rights of guardianship made his father, who took him in Nowlock, Iowa. At that time, a man disappeared a lot at work, and grandparents were engaged in the upbringing of the boy. It was in their house that the future athlete first began to watch fights, grandfather showed him a video with the UFC stars and led to the club, where meetings were held between fans fighters.
Already at 16, the young man first entered the fight with the opponent, which was much more and an adult of him. But Jeremy grew up a strong and persistent guy, so soon began to win and realized that he wanted to start a career in MMA.
Personal life
Personal life of a man has developed successfully: in 2017, he played a wedding with his beloved Cindy Lopez, which raises two daughters.Fighter's wife responds exclusively in a positive way, calls her a kind and good person. He often publishes joint photos with his wife and children on pages on social networks.
Mixed martial arts
The athlete debuted at the professional level in the winter of 2005, fighting with Ted Worthington. The battle ended with the victory of Jeremy, which became an impetus for the subsequent career continued in mixed martial arts. According to the memories of a man, then the opponents had an advantage over him, because almost everyone had already had a base in the form of classes with various types of struggle in the past, and he was forced to hope only for natural strength, dexterity, as well as skills obtained on the street and amateur competitions.
Nevertheless, the guy managed to properly use its advantages, scope of hands and other parameters, so that in the first years of professional performances to make 12 victories in statistics and only 1 defeat. This impressed the UFC representatives who invited him to the Association.
The first battle, which took place in May 2007 on UFC 71 against Dina Thomas, ended with defeat for Jeremy. After that, the guy performed with varying success, alternating victory over Nick Walker, Raphael Dus Anzhus and Marcus Davis with Lossers Fisher, Joe Lozone and Donald Serrone. But he showed loyalty and for the sake of meeting with Gilbert Mellendes suffered a wedding date. This evening Stevens finished, being a triumph.
Later, the man spent no less spectacular battle by Korean Chhel, that Ho (Du Ho Choem), who finished the technical knockout, and then again came out the winner after meeting with Josh Emmett. The chain of good luck crashed after the battle with Jose Aldo, whose blow brought Jeremy in order.
Losses poorly affected the emotional state of Stevens, who later stated that he was thinking about suicide. During this period, he began to attend the organization Choice Center, revised his views on life, changed his hairstyle and shaved his beard.
The next Fight of the American took place only six months later against the Russian star Zabit Magomedsharipova. It was a fierce struggle of two famous athletes, but still the opponent turned out to be stronger, and by decision of Jeremy judges recognized the losers.
After that, fans were looking forward to the bright battle of Stevens with Mexican Yair Rodriguez. The American has repeatedly raped insults to the fighter and told about how easy to overcome him. Before the meeting, he even conducted a training session with another star of sports Tony Ferguson and considered himself fully prepared.
After 15 seconds after the start of the fight, Jeremy was injured by eye and could not continue the battle. It caused discontent with the fans who threw the athlete garbage. The re-battle took place only a month later and ended with defeat for Stevens.
Jeremy Stevens now
In April 2020, the fighter was planned a meeting with Kelvin Catatar, which had to be transferred due to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite this, a man continues to train to keep fit, as reported by fans, publishing a photo in "Instagram". Now it weighs 66 kg with a height of 174 cm.Achievements
- 2008 - Night Night Award
- 2009 - Night Award "
- 2010 - Award "Fight Nights"
- 2011 - Night Award "
- 2014 - Award "Fight of the Night"
- 2016 - Reward "Fight of the Night"
- 2017 - Award "Fight Nights"
- 2018 - Award "Fight of the Night"
- 2018 - Award "Shaw Night"
- 2019 - Award "Fight of the Night"