Jake's ready for backyard brawl

JAKE HADLEY has got his hand raised in enemy territory plenty of times - and has laughed off Charles Johnson's St Louis travel warning.

- GARY HITCHCOCK

Birmingham flyweight Hadley faces the American in his Missouri home tonight at UFC on ESPN 56, with Johnson promising a hostile reception.

Despite the name, crime stats suggest St Louis has plenty of sinners as well, with 'InnerG' even posting: "I come from the 'show me' state, a city that's been the murder capital, and shapes a different type of person... In MY CITY! In front of MY PEOPLE! We show the UK boy who the King of the monsters is."