Michael Chandler is at peace with the fact he may never get the chance to avenge his two career losses to Will Brooks . Knowing that will make it all the easier to wear Brooks’ now former Bellator lightweight title, he said. Bellator cut Brooks (17-1 MMA, 9-1 BMMA) earlier this month despite him holding the organization’s 155-pound belt for two years and riding an eight-fight winning streak. “Ill” was soon set to become a free agent and the company decided to let him out of his contract earlier after a long stretch of Brooks publicly airing grievances. Related: Bellator cuts lightweight champ Will Brooks, strips heavyweight champ Vitaly Minakov Soon after Bellator announced Chandler (14-3 MMA, 11-3 BMMA), a fighter twice beaten by Brooks in 2014, would fight Patricky Freire (16-7 MMA, 9-6 BMMA) for the newly vacated lightweight title at June’s Bellator 157 event
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Bellator 157′s Michael Chandler wanted to take belt from ‘unemployed guy’ Will Brooks – MMA Junkie