Will Brooks Says He Could Bounce Off The Sofa & Beat Michael Chandler

Will Brooks knows Michael Chandler is 1 of the finest lightweights alive, but is even now confident he’d beat him.

At UFC 257, Chandler scored a massive 1st-spherical TKO earn over Dan Hooker in his UFC debut to cement his case as a prime lightweight. It was a excellent efficiency from “Iron.” For Brooks, he stated he was jumping off the couch in exhilaration. Even though Chandler and Brooks experienced a rivalry in Bellator, with Brooks winning both equally fights, he still is rooting for Iron to have good results.

“So I’ll inform you what, when I observed that come about, I jumped up off the sofa and I was gassed up,” Brooks mentioned to MMAFighting. “I can beat these fellas, I know I can beat these fellas. I can bounce up off my sofa suitable now and defeat Chandler and conquer Dan Hooker and beat these men, but I’m not in a placement to say that. I simply cannot get on media and say that, I can not get on social media and say that, simply because correct now I am Mr. Irrelevant in MMA.”

Now, Will Brooks is a free of charge agent and coming off a pretty controversial submission reduction to Gleison Tibau. Right before that, he fought Rashid Magomedov to a attract in PFL. In his occupation, he does maintain notable wins above Chandler, Marcin Held, Saad Awad, and Ross Pearson. Despite the fact that he is 2-4-1 in his last 7, Brooks is self-assured he can nevertheless beat Chandler.

“You get a minor offended, you get a minor bitter, you get a tiny pissy style in your mouth because I’d conquer any of people men,” Brooks concluded. “Especially, you seem at a guy like these Dan Hookers that he knocks out, and blah blah blah, as a competitor you’re like, ‘Yo, you just bought knocked out by a ‘45er and then you defeat up some old man Ben Henderson,’ and you appear in and I get pissed at Dan Hooker since I’m like, ‘Yo, that guy’s not tough to beat. He’s not challenging to defeat.’ I’m sounding like a jerk now, but as a competitor, that’s the place I’m at. It lights a hearth.”

Do you feel Will Brooks could conquer Michael Chandler now?