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Bubba Jenkins: Fighting on Jordan Parsons’ birthday ‘is going to be ringing in my head’
- Updated: August 4, 2016
Bubba Jenkins and Jordan Parsons were enemies when they met in the Bellator MMA cage last year — and perhaps also leading up to the bout, as they shared some trash talk with each other before they squared off. But, after Parsons fell victim in a hit-and-run accident and passed away this past May, Jenkins felt just as much sorrow at the death of Parsons and just as sympathetic to the family of the Fargo, N.D., native as everyone else.
“It was very, very sad. I was extremely sad because I had followed him after I had fought him and leading up to our very intense selling of the fight,” he said. “Me getting the win, I was very happy for the future of his career, knowing that he was such a tough opponent, and knowing that he was on his way to stardom. And [he was] bumping up to 155-pounds, where I think he would’ve given a lot of people problems because I think he was naturally a bigger 145-pounder than he wanted to let on.”
Jenkins, who is scheduled to rematch Georgi Karakhanyan at Bellator 160 later this month in a major featherweight contest, was Parsons’ last opponent. Jenkins believes this made the situation even tougher for him, in particular, to handle, compared to other fighters.
“Me being his last …
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