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Will Brooks Hoping To Face Chris Wade

October 13, 2018 | Posted by Joseph Lee

In an interview with MMA Junkie, Will Brooks spoke about his fight with Rashid Magomedov at PFL 9 tonight as well as hoping for a fight with Chris Wade. Here are highlights:

On Nik Lentz beating him: “I was winning that fight. One of the things I do have to be conscious of is giving respect to the fact that he may notice some things I don’t do as well, or may have a lapse of judgment at times, and he may catch something. You have to be very conscious of the fact that I have to slow myself down a bit and try to be a little different than what we’re doing at the gym.”

On Rashid Magomedov: “He’s a very stoic guy in the way he carries himself and the way he competes, and just the way he treats people. I respect him a great deal as a person. As a competitor, I think he brings that same type of attitude in the fights. He’s very stoic in the way he attacks and analyzes and breaks down the fights. That sometimes can make you very linear, and very straight line, and very one-dimensional, almost. I think he can slow himself down just by having a stoic characteristic in regards to how he approaches fighting. But it’s one of the things that makes him an incredible threat, because he can break you down within seconds and be on you.”

On who he wants to fight next: “The guy I would love to go and dog him out is that Chris Wade kid. He just bugs me. I don’t do a lot of talking crazy, but that kid bugs the hell out of me. (At a PFL media day), he just decided he was the favorite and went on this media run where he was telling everyone, ‘I’m considered the favorite by the promotion of the fans.’ It’s like, ‘Yo, we don’t even know the full roster of the guys in the tournament, so how the hell are you the favorite?’ Then you go out in your first fight, you get roughed up like a small child. You get rag-dolled. Even after losing his first fight, he didn’t humble himself. He still walks around like he has this attitude like, I’m the man, because I’ve got this clean comb-over hair cut that every other dude is wearing these days. … I’m hoping he’s the guy in the finals.”

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