{"id":145601,"date":"2025-09-15T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145601\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:25:04","slug":"he-leaves-his-neck-out-jarred-brooks-breaks-down-matchup-with-mansur-malachiev-at-one-fight-night-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145601\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He Leaves His Neck Out\u2019 \u2013 Jarred Brooks Breaks Down Matchup With Mansur Malachiev At ONE Fight Night 36"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years of heated back-and-forth exchanges online, former ONE Strawweight MMA World Champion Jarred \u201cThe Monkey God\u201d Brooks<\/a> will finally get to throw down with Russian rival Mansur Malachiev<\/a> in the ONE Championship ring.<\/p>\n

The pair\u2019s fiery feud will reach a tipping point when they collide in a flyweight MMA showdown at ONE Fight Night 36: Prajanchai vs. Di Bella II<\/a>, which takes place inside Bangkok\u2019s legendary Lumpinee Stadium on Friday, October 3, live in U.S. primetime.<\/p>\n

What began as light ribbing between two elite grapplers has escalated into something far more personal, with Brooks preaching American wrestling superiority while Malachiev insists on Dagestani dominance.<\/p>\n

That competitive banter quickly transformed into venomous personal attacks across social media and interviews, eventually spilling over into threatening direct messages.<\/p>\n

Brooks reveals just how deep Malachiev\u2019s psychological warfare runs:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe past year and a half, this guy\u2019s been sending me direct messages. He doesn\u2019t really understand English that much, but he\u2019s just trying to get into my head. His whole team has been sending me messages and all that stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did mock his style a lot, though. His style is kind of whack. He walks like a zombie, coming forward with his hands up. I\u2019m not saying that the guy isn\u2019t good. He has the typical Dagestani style with dangerous spinning back kicks, and he has a dangerous hook.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite acknowledging Malachiev\u2019s dangerous weapons, Brooks enters this grudge match supremely confident. The #1-ranked strawweight MMA contender has spent countless hours studying his #2-ranked rival, identifying crucial weaknesses he plans to exploit from the opening bell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Monkey God\u201d believes Malachiev\u2019s overly cautious approach creates glaring openings:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that when pressure is being displayed upon him, he waits his turn, and I think that\u2019s where I can take advantage of a lot of the fight. There are a lot of times where, after he gets hit, he wants to shoot, and that just shows me that he\u2019s one of those guys who\u2019s not willing to trade until the last minute and a half of a fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe leaves his neck out because he is very \u2018guillotinable\u2019. He likes to tire his opponents out by letting them push forward and try to finish at a pace that he\u2019s used to. But I\u2019m gonna bring a twister full of fists and come at him a million miles an hour, like the old Monkey God that everybody is used to seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This fight offers much-needed redemption for Brooks after back-to-back defeats shattered his momentum in the world\u2019s largest martial arts organization. The 32-year-old will move up for his second fight at flyweight, and he views this as a fresh start to silence doubters.<\/p>\n

He continued:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019ve done a lot of thought, done a lot of recreation of what I think the fight is going to be like. But you guys are gonna see. I think that this is a good new start for me, and I think that Mansur is a good test.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife can sometimes get the best of you, and I want to be that guy who went back to the trenches and came back up and let that be a good story for somebody in the future to be inspired by.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooks Stays Determined To Recapture Lost Gold<\/p>\n

Jarred Brooks\u2019 storied rivalry with undisputed ONE Strawweight MMA World Champion Joshua \u201cThe Passion\u201d Pacio<\/a> remains unfinished business. Their epic trilogy culminated in the Filipino\u2019s stunning comeback victory that left Brooks devastated at ONE 171: Qatar this past February.<\/p>\n

A victory over Mansur Malachiev could serve as the first step toward another shot at Pacio and the strawweight MMA gold:<\/p>\n

\u201cI did lose. That\u2019s OK, but I\u2019ll be damned if I\u2019m not going to come back. I\u2019m a dog that gets bitten, and then I\u2019m gonna bite you back three times as hard. So I\u2019m not worried about what other people have to say, but at the end of the day, Joshua Pacio is still on my hit list.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that he has something to prove. God willing, if he wants to, then I\u2019m still here after this Mansur fight, and Mansur, he is a tough cookie to crumble, but I do think that I could crumble him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacio will attempt to become a two-division MMA World Champion when he takes on newly crowned flyweight MMA king Yuya \u201cLittle Piranha\u201d Wakamatsu<\/a> at ONE 173: Superbon vs. Noiri<\/a> on November 16. <\/p>\n

Brooks respects Pacio\u2019s inherent greatness but he also refuses to let their rivalry die.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Monkey God\u201d concluded:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I don\u2019t ever get a chance to fight Pacio again, I\u2019ll just prove it with somebody else until the stars match up again. I still have the same perception of Josh. He\u2019s a great champion. I think that he leads his people well.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m coming back. I\u2019m going out and I have something to prove, and when I have something to prove, I\u2019m a dangerous person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of heated back-and-forth exchanges online, former ONE Strawweight MMA World Champion Jarred \u201cThe Monkey God\u201d Brooks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-145601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}