ONE Championship: Jarred Brooks promises quick night against Joshua Pacio in Manila – ‘first round, he’s done’
- Brooks will challenge Pacio for strawweight MMA title at ONE 164 on December 3, and vows to ‘rise to the occasion’
- American ‘Monkey God’ says he has 10 times the grappling capabilities of the Filipino champ, and insists ‘I can be a knockout artist too’
Jarred Brooks has a bold prediction for his upcoming fight with ONE Championship strawweight king Joshua Pacio.
The 29-year-old American “Monkey God” believes he will dethrone the champion inside a single round.
“First round, he’s done,” Brooks (19-2) told the Post on Wednesday. “I’m going to get it done in the first round. I know that deep down in my heart. I’ve predicted this, I’ve seen this for the past three months.”
Brooks will challenge Pacio for strawweight MMA gold in the main event of ONE 164 on December 3, on the Filipino’s home turf in Manila.
He is widely considered the toughest challenge of the champion’s reign so far, in large part because of his wrestling and submission skills, and believes those perceptions are accurate.
“It looks like his wrestling defence has gotten a little bit better,” Brooks said. “But at the end of the day I think I have 10 times the grappling capabilities than him.
“If he thinks the training partners he’s working with have the same kind of wrestling calibre that I do then they’re mistaken. Those guys do not have the wrestling prowess that I do, or the jiu jitsu prowess. Everybody sleeps on my jiu jitsu.”
