The heavyweight scene within the UK has typically been scarce. Parkin says he turned professional as a result of he struggled for opponents within the beginner ranks.
However current years have seen two key males emerge and discover success in very totally different factions.
Manchester fighter Aspinall, 31, shot by the UFC ranks and is now the primary heavyweight contender within the UFC, ready for his shot at champion and legend Jon Jones.
Sunderland’s De Fries, 38, is one among KSW’s largest star. He’s the European promotion powerhouse’s most dominant champion with eleven profitable defences since 2018.
Parkin sits quantity 13 within the UFC’s rankings. He fights quantity eight contender Marcin Tybura at UFC London on Saturday.
The heavyweight division, not not like boxing, continues to dominate consideration within the UFC.
The scene is primed for one more heavyweight to step up and underneath the tutelage of Aspinall and De Fries, Parkin could possibly be that fighter.
However that does not imply Parkin has any aspirations to combat Aspinall sooner or later, fairly the other.
“I would not need to combat him. He is my buddy, however I hoped by the point I bought there he’d be utterly executed, and possibly hopefully get this Jon Jones combat and get a great deal of cash and retire,” Parkin says.
“However I am nonetheless a great deal of fights off that but, and like, except it was for loopy cash, I simply would not need to combat him, actually.
“I am thirteenth ranked now. I do know I am preventing eighth however there’s nonetheless probably 15 guys I’ve to beat to even get there.”
“I feel Tybura had like 20 odd UFC fights,” Parkin provides.
“So that you type of cannot be not good having 20 UFC fights, you realize. I do suppose I am most likely higher than him. I do consider that.”
