ONE Championship: Jarred Brooks says promotion is ‘definitely climbing up the ladder’ with ‘huge’ US broadcast deal
- ONE’s new broadcast deal with Amazon’s Prime Video will see at least 12 events air on the platform per year – all in US prime time
- Detroit’s Brooks will soon challenge Joshua Pacio for the ONE strawweight title and believes he can ‘definitely sell a fight’ to US fans
ONE Championship’s new United States broadcast deal with Amazon’s Prime Video could be a big opportunity for Jarred Brooks.
The new deal, revealed on Wednesday, will see at least 12 ONE Championship events broadcast on the streaming service per year – all in US prime time.
Brooks, one of the promotion’s fastest rising American stars, could fit quite nicely into those plans.
“It’s huge, especially for United States viewership and the things ONE is trying to accomplish,” the Detroit native told the Post on Wednesday, hours after the new broadcast deal was unveiled. “We’re definitely climbing up the ladder with that deal. We’ll see where it takes us a couple of years from now as well.”
Brooks (19-2) was back in action on the main card of the ONE 156 event last Friday in Singapore, where he defeated South Africa’s Bokang Masunyane by first-round submission to assert himself as the top contender in the promotion’s strawweight division.
It was as dominant as victories get, but the 28-year-old, ever the perfectionist, still has regrets.
“I kind of wish it went a little bit longer, just so I could have shown people more of what I have,” he said.