Coming into the UFC, many fans were excited about Will Brooks’s future inside the octagon. However, Brooks tenure with the promotion turned out to be a disappointing one. Brooks won his debut bout in lackluster fashion and then lost his last three fights either by knockout or submission.
Brooks recently announced that he parted ways with the UFC, but will still be fighting in the Professional Fighters League (formerly the World Series of Fighting).Brooks talked on the MMA Hour and put the blame on one person, himself.
“I just didn’t get it done,” Brooks said Monday on The MMA Hour, when asked what he thought went wrong in his four UFC fights. “I let a lot of outside things get in the way and I just didn’t make the right adjustments and in adapting to different things that were taking place and that’s on me. I take full responsibility for that.
“At the end of the day, you could have all these coaches, you could have teammates, you could have whoever it is working in the background trying to get you on track and they’re working hard, but if you’re not focused and locked in to what you’re doing, especially in this sport, there’s no way that you’re going to have the success that you’re looking for. I wasn’t locked in, I wasn’t dedicated, it came back to bite me in the butt and I accept that.”
Check out the rest of the interview as Brooks discusses what went wrong during his time in the UFC and the mistakes he’s learned since then.