While he wouldn’t speculate about how he’d react to getting his hand raised this weekend, Jenkins is confident that it will happen.
“You don’t know what you don’t know, hey?” he said with a smirk. „I can sit here and tell you I’m gonna be one way or another, but I don’t know ’til I get out there. All I can say is that, for now, everything feels the same, I’ve done all the prep to walk out there as confident as I’ve ever been, so regardless of the result, I’m happy with the preparation I put in.
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“I’m gonna go out there, put as much pace on him, do as much damage as I can inside those three rounds. I know my best is good enough to beat anyone in this division, so Don’s gonna be the first one to fall in a long line.”
Should that come to pass, he has some pretty clear ideas about how he’d like to see things line up for him over the next 12-18 months.
“Fight in Perth, win. Fight in New York, win. Fight in Vegas, win. Come back to Rod Laver and get a Top 15 fight in Melbourne in front of the home crowd,” he said, mapping out a fast-lane approach to ascending the featherweight ranks.
