{"id":39441,"date":"2012-10-06T11:51:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=38358"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:32:00","slug":"ufc-president-explains-his-willingness-to-do-anything-to-get-stephens-out-of-jail-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/ufc-president-explains-his-willingness-to-do-anything-to-get-stephens-out-of-jail-ufc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC President Explains His Willingness To Do Anything To Get Stephens Out Of Jail | UFC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cI get the call this morning that he\u2019s been arrested in his hotel room, I go straight to the police, the sheriff\u2019s department here and start putting the pieces together on what\u2019s going on and how to fix it. I\u2019m sure you could tell by my tweeting I was 100-percent confident that I was going to get him out for this fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically what happened is they do not like him in Des Moines, Iowa where this warrant is from. Basically, they\u2019re going to extradite him, one of those situations, or not we\u2019ll see what happens with this whole thing, but the kid\u2019s been here since Monday no secret that he was going to be here. They arrest him at almost noontime on Friday after he weighs in yesterday and everything else. In my opinion after dealing with this all day, that was done on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI cut the deal with the people down in Des Moines, Iowa to get him out. Done deal, we cut the deal, I agree to it, we\u2019re going to get him out. They change the deal. Okay, well I accept that deal too. They changed the deal. Every time they would lay out a new deal, I would accept it and they would change it. They kept trying to make it harder and harder and harder and harder.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI was devising a plan to break him out and come over here and do this fight. So they finally get to a deal with me for an astronomical amount of money to bail him out and I agree to it and then they did it again. So they\u2019re going to stick it to this kid big time when he gets down to Iowa. They don\u2019t like him, they\u2019re going to stick it to him, and they run me out all day playing games with me. People have gone on three state killing sprees and get freaking bailed out of jail. This kid\u2019s got an assault charge in Des Moines, Iowa and he\u2019s not going to have fun when he gets there cause they got it out for this kid big time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was willing to have two police officers, armed police officers bring him from jail, to come fight tonight, and then bring him back to jail. Let\u2019s do that, let the kid get paid, because he\u2019s going to have to spend money on this thing anyways he\u2019s got a family to take care of, it\u2019s crazy. Continue reading on page 2… (Video included)<\/em><\/p>\n


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\u201cI\u2019ve seen crazier (expletive) than this. Floyd Mayweather got to decide when he went to jail. But this kid on an assault charge couldn\u2019t come out and fight today when he would have gone back to jail, I would have bailed him out, I would have flew him to Des Moines, Iowa to face the charges down there. I was willing to do anything and they dragged me out and played games with me all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt he\u2019s responsible for the situation, but again he\u2019s got a completely different story. We all have different stories when we\u2019re in trouble, but I was trying to help him.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big deal to him. This kid isn\u2019t Jon Jones or Rampage. Do you know what losing this purse means to a kid like Jeremy Stephens, it\u2019s a huge blow. This is how these guys make a living, this is how they feed their families. He spent money to get to this fight, money he probably didn\u2019t have and now he\u2019s really screwed cause the fight didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJeremy\u2019s in a whole other world of trouble. That guy might be in Des Moines, Iowa for the next two years. I\u2019m telling you I\u2019ve never seen a situation where a guy couldn\u2019t get out on bail for an assault charge. He didn\u2019t kill three people, he didn\u2019t murder 20 people in three states, he\u2019s not wanted for any horrible crimes, it\u2019s an assault charge,\u201d said White.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s in big trouble, so I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen to Jeremy.\u201d<\/p>\n