Will Brooks: I made a mistake with the early weigh ins
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First fight in the UFC and not a good weight situation, he'll be fine.
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Chapter one of "Ill" Will's big book of excuses
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Excuses after his first fight? Didn't take very long.
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He won't be find if he fights Ferguson or Khabib
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He won
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I said it from the moment he signed. Shernerds saying he's next champ are laughable. He barely beat Ross and had Ross been as active in rounds 1 and 2 he probably gets the decision. Brooks won't be champ I think top 5 is his ceiling.
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At least 2, if not 4 fights before he's at that level. By then he will look like a totally different fighter than he did last night.
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Unimpressively given how people talked him up.
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He beat Pearson in his IFC debut. RDA got knocked out by Jeremy Stephens and Alvarez lost to Cerrone.
Pearson is a very good striker and overall far from a bad fighter.
Brooks might become champ or he might end up being a top 10 fighter only bit he is unlikely to turn out to be anything but a very good fighter
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Fair points but several on here called him next champ. Championship level fighters blow out Ross Pearson sorry. His performance was unimpressive.
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He already is a great fighter and is certainly UFC level. I just see him having a really hard time breaking the top 3 after how he looked last night
Pearson is a tall order for your 1st fight in the big league
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Doesn't matter. Anytime a fighter critiques, assesses, or re-evaluates any aspect of his fight he is making excuses. This is Sherdog and we have standards here
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He might have been nervous since it was his first ufc fight. Plenty of fighters who eventually became champion who either looked like crap in their first ufc fight or even lost. (Rampage, Shogun, Dillashaw, Dos Anjos, etc.)
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Yeah well to that I would say refer to my last post. A first fight in the UFC is never a good indicator. Stipe Miocic won a hard fought decision over Joey Beltran in his first UFC fight. And we all know he lost to struve
These young guys havent plateau'd
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Eddie Alvarez got beat up by Cowboy he isn't going far in the UFC.
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You're not wrong. It was just thoroughly unimpressive. At least with Stipe you could see he's a great athlete who is highly skilled and could make waves at HW. Brooks is an athlete but nothing I saw from him led me to believe he'll have great success fighting better competition.
