Joshua Pacio relinquished his strawweight title to American challenger Jarred Brooks, absorbing a unanimous decision loss as ONE Championship marked its Philippine comeback for ONE 164 after almost three years due to the pandemic. READ:
Despite the jampacked Filipino crowd at the Mall of Asia Arena rallying behind him, the Team Lakay stalwart could not get the job done in his fourth title defense against a very aggressive Mr. Brooks, who ran away with the country’s only remaining world title.
In anticipation of Mr. Brooks’ lethal ground game, Mr. Pacio was kept at bay and failed to land his usual power shots highlighted by a spinning kick miss in the fourth round that left an opening for Brooks to finally complete a takedown. It went the distance through five rounds with Mr. Brooks hoisting the belt as the new strawweight king that in the process capped a subpar campaign for Filipino fighters in ONE’s twinbill event.
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