Brandon Jenkins is getting a Netflix platform and a new opponent on Saturday when he meets Chris Avila at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, in Most Valuable Promotions' first MMA fight in promotion history.

The matchup brings together two fighters with uneven records and a lot to prove. Jenkins is 16-11 as a pro, while Avila is 8-9, and the bout will air as part of a card that gives Jenkins another shot at a high-profile moment after a previously planned fight with Dillon Danis fell apart when the Qatar event was canceled amid unrest in the region.

For Jenkins, the booking fits a career that has never stayed in one lane for long. He has more than 30 amateur fights, including bouts that never made his official record because they were unsanctioned before Alabama began regulating them. Since making his amateur debut in 2010, he has fought in the UFC, PFL, Karate Combat and Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA, building a reputation as a reliable, game action fighter who could be counted on to show up and entertain.

That is part of why the new opportunity appealed to him. Jenkins said he has always chased experiences as much as belts or rankings, recalling that he used to book his own fights when he was a small-town kid. He said he would call promoters for island cards, fly out to fight and treat the trip like a vacation before getting into a fistfight later that night. The chance to appear on Netflix, he said, was an easy yes once his management told him to check his email and sign the contract.

"I was like, 'What is it?' They're like, 'It's Netflix.' I was like, Holy sh*t, OK I'll do it," Jenkins said.

The fight also comes during a period when Jenkins has been moving more fully into coaching at Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas, a shift that began in December. Even so, he says he is not done competing. Jenkins said a recent conversation with Danis made that plain, after Danis made clear he would still fight if the setting and the terms were right. "He swears he's not retired," Jenkins said, adding that Danis said he would fight again in a heartbeat if the circumstances were perfect. "I'm not f*cking retired. Never say you're retired. You never know when something special is going to come across your desk. You've got to be able to take it," Jenkins recalled.

That is the clearest thread in Saturday's booking. Jenkins is not treating the Intuit Dome card as a last stop or a farewell. He said he is trying to leave behind a run of memorable fights, not a tidy ending, and named Davey Grant as the kind of fighter whose style he wants to echo. The cancelled Danis bout may have cost him one opportunity, but the Netflix fight gives him another one now, in front of a broader audience and on a card built to make first impressions.

For Jenkins, the answer to whether he is done is already settled. He is still fighting, and Saturday is the next proof.