Jarred Brooks is the reigning ONE Strawweight MMA World Champion – but he stepped up to face Mikey Musumeci for the ONE Flyweight Submission Grappling World Title!
The match will take place at ONE Fight Night 13, on August 4.
And, well, Brooks is very much looking forward to it.
Here is what he had to say in a recent ONE Championship interview:
Man, if I can beat Mikey Musumeci at his own game and beat him for the flyweight title, I think that I can start to call my own shots as far as doing these mixed-rules contests and stuff like that.
I’m trying to take over ONE Championship. I put it all on the line every time.
And it doesn’t matter who it is or who it’s up against.I’m going to show the whole world that nobody can face me and get out of there a winner.
Brooks has a lot of respect for Musumeci, but he wants to turn the match “into a fight”:
He’s a great kid. He’s somebody that I look up to and that everybody else should look up to in the industry.
But I know he has his tics.
So we’ll see when he grapples with me how he feels about that.I’m not doing a jiu-jitsu match. He calls this a match. I’m fighting with this kid.
I’m turning a jiu-jitsu match into a fight.
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