ONE Championship: Jarred Brooks wants ‘dream’ fight with Demetrious Johnson, confident he would win
- Brooks will challenge Joshua Pacio for strawweight gold at ONE 164 on December 3 in Manila
- If victorious, he hopes to meet legendary Johnson, and is confident he would beat the flyweight MMA champ
Jarred Brooks is zeroed in on his title fight with ONE Championship strawweight king Joshua Pacio, but he is also looking to the future.
The American is hoping that, if he gets by Pacio, a fight with ONE flyweight champ and MMA legend Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson could be next.
“I would really just love a super fight with Demetrious Johnson,” the 29-year-old told the Post last week. “It doesn’t matter if it’s for a title. That’s just a dream come true at the end of the day, fighting somebody with the prowess of Demetrious.”
Johnson, 36, was last in action in the main event of ONE on Prime Video 1 on August 27 in Singapore, when he knocked out Brazil’s Adriano Moraes to win flyweight gold and avenge a 2021 knockout defeat by the same man.
Brooks was tuned in for that fight, and was very impressed by his fellow American’s performance.
“I was really rooting for Demetrious,” he said, looking back on the fight. “I thought he was in trouble at first.
“The way he finishes, you can never sleep on Demetrious Johnson. That just proves it.”
