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Will Brooks (born October 8, 1986) is an American mixed martial artist. He is the current Bellator Lightweight Champion.
Brooks took up wrestling in high school, but his main focus was playing football. Excelling in football during high school, he ended up going to college to play at Harper College, in Palatine. At Harper, he met an old friend from high school in Nick Redding, who ended up changing the course of his life to MMA.
Brooks made his professional MMA debut in January 2011. He competed exclusively in his native Illinois and quickly amassed an undefeated record of 7-0 in the first two years of his career.
In late 2012, Brooks received the biggest opportunity of his career as he was invited to Japan by the DREAM organization. He faced experienced veteran Satoru Kitaoka at Dream 18 on December 31, 2012. Despite being a heavy underdog, Brooks dominated the fight and won via TKO in the second round.
Following his impressive international debut, Brooks was quickly signed by Bellator Fighting Championships in January 2013.
Bellator MMA (formerly known as Bellator Fighting Championships) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in the United States. Bellator was founded in 2008 by Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney. Bellator features "The Toughest Tournament in Sports", which has a single-elimination format that awards the winner of each eight-person or four-person tournament a check for $100,000 and a guaranteed world title fight against the current Bellator world champion in the applicable weight class.
In December 2011, Viacom acquired a majority stake of Bellator and in January 2013, all Bellator events began airing on Spike TV. Bellator produced nearly 25 live events annually until 2015, as well as shoulder programming including fighter features, highlight shows and reality-based programming.
In May 2014, Bellator hosted the company's inaugural pay-per-view event from the Lander's Center. The event featured a Bellator Light Heavyweight Tournament Final fight between Rampage Jackson and King Mo, Michael Chandler vs. Will Brooks for the Lightweight Interim World Title, Alexander Shlemenko vs. Tito Ortiz, the Bellator Season 10 Heavyweight Tournament Final between Alexander Volkov vs. Blagoi Ivanov and a feature fight between Ricky Rainey vs. Michael Page.
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Michael Chandler Jr. (born April 24, 1986) is an American mixed martial artist fighting in the lightweight division. He is currently under contract with Bellator Fighting Championships where he is the former Bellator Lightweight Champion. He was also the winner of the Bellator Season Four: Lightweight Tournament. He was the 2011 Breakthrough Fighter of the Year.
Chandler was born and raised in High Ridge, Missouri. He was born the second of four children to Michael Sr. and Betty Chandler. In high school, Chandler was on the honor roll every term, received three letters in football, and finished second at the Missouri State High School Championships his senior year for wrestling. He was voted the Most Valuable Wrestler during his senior season and was selected to the All-St. Louis Team.
Upon graduating from Northwest High School in 2004, Chandler enrolled at the University of Missouri, walking onto the school's wrestling squad. While at Missouri Chandler was a four-time NCAA qualifier, collected 100 career wins, as well as earning fifth place at NCAA's earning Division 1 NCAA All-American honors. Chandler earned runner-up honors in the 2008 and 2009 Big 12 Championships and was awarded automatic bids to three of the four NCAA tournaments he competed in. Chandler compiled a 31-15 record against Big 12 opponents and a 100-40 overall record in his four years as a starter. He majored in personal finance management services with a minor in real estate.
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Amateur Hour is a cooking show hosted by UFC LW Will Brooks.
michael chandler forgets he is the fight!! what a shot to the temple! Obviously doesn't know where he is 3.48 of the 4th round! https://www.fanduel.com/?invitedby=artgreen84&cnl;=da
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At the UFC Fight Night 96 weigh-ins, Will Brooks and Alex Oliveira squared off Friday afternoon in Portland. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com
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At UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson open workouts Thursday, Will Brooks talks to the media about how he feels like Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson didn’t do enough verbally to get a title shot, how Conor McGregor is “outworking” everyone right now and his plans after facing Alex Oliveira on Saturday. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com
Azarão vence favorito por decisão dividida e agora espera campeão Eddie Alvarez para a unificação dos títulos
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Will Brooks full interview from The Ultimate Fighter 23 Finale open workouts
Jon Anik catches up with Alex "Cowboy" Oliviera after his victory over Will Brooks at Fight Night Portland.
"I never thought for one second that I wouldn't have the belt". - "Ill Will" Brooks
In the latest edition of In Focus, we follow Lightweight Champ "Ill" Will Brooks around his adopted home of Coconut Creek, FL as he prepares to defend his strap, April 10th vs Dave "The Fugitive" Jansen.
Megan Olivi catches up with Alex "Cowboy" Oliviera after his victory over Will Brooks in the co-main event of Fight Night Portland.
Bellator lightweight champion Will Brooks was guest on The MMA Report Podcast to preview his title defense against Marcin Held at Bellator 145.
Hear from both Will Brooks and Alex Oliveira ahead of their Fight Night Portland co-main event scrap. No. 11-ranked Brooks makes his second Octagon appearance and "Cowboy" is looking to extend his four-fight win streak in lightweight division.
In this MMA interview, Marcos Villegas speaks to Michael Chandler about his rematch with Will Brooks on Nov 15th and talks his thoughts on Eddie Alvarez's fight with Donald Cerrone. For more Boxing and MMA videos log onto http://www.fighthubtv.com Like us:http://on.fb.me/xWRC1f follow us:http://bit.ly/wACkIv Boxing videos! MMA videos! uploaded daily! Subscribe:http://goo.gl/vnzIb
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