March 29, 2024 8:45 am ET
The start of the 2024 PFL routine season marks a full-circle minute for Bubba Jenkins, and likewise a chance to leave a bitter competition behind.
Jenkins (21-7), who had a stint under the Bellator banner from 2013-16 before getting to the PFL in 2021, is thrilled to see how the brand-new chapter unfolds now that the business have actually combined.
“The thing about it is, it’s sort of like a brand-new surface, a brand-new whatever, actually,” Jenkins informed press reporters throughout a media scrum at XTreme Couture. “It’s like me and a number of my young boys left and after that the brand-new team of Bellator. It’s cool due to the fact that I’ve had both worlds currently. It’s type of like whatever is returning cycle.”
Jenkins is concentrated on the jobs that lie ahead, which start with a 2024 PFL 3 match versus Kai Kamaka (12-5-1) on April 19. He has actually done his finest to eliminate the memory of his last scheduled bout, a trilogy battle versus a bitter competitor in Chris Wade that broke down on the scale. Wade missed out on weight for their November bout, resulting in the cancellation of the battle.
“I appeared a total specialist like I was all year,” Jenkins stated. “Every battle I appeared all set to combat, making weight, and it didn’t take place. I signed my part of the agreement, I came and I revealed, which was that. I have actually had outcomes that have actually differed, and each time I’ve become an expert I’ve done my task. That’s all I ever wish to be kept in mind for is a guy that came and was expert and did his task. Yes, I have a good time, I do my shenanigans, I’m going to leave a little ‘Bad Man’ taste on you, however I certainly come like they all come.”
As far as Wade, who Jenkins divided the very first 2 conferences with, that name and their once-heated competition is a distant memory.
“I do not even state that name,” Jenkins joked. “I do not speak on it, I do not consider it. I do not even understand what we’re speaking about at this minute. Larger and brighter things.”
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