Hagerstown’s Isaiah Brooks improved to 3-0 in his professional MMA career with a technical knockout of Joel Galarza Lopez during the Shogun Fights XXXII event on March 28 at the The Hall at Live! Casino & Hotel in Hanover, Maryland.
The fight was stopped when Lopez was unresponsive to ground strikes in the second round.
Brooks, 27, who trains out of the Tactical Combat Academy of Mixed Martial Arts in Greencastle, is next scheduled to fight June 6 on the Stellar Fights card in Harrington, Delaware.
After going 4-0 as an amateur, Brooks made his pro debut on March 29, 2025, defeating Nick Mondelli by first-round TKO. In his next fight, he won by submission against Arthur Walcott-Ceesay with a rear-naked choke on Nov. 15, 2025.
Brooks graduated from North Hagerstown High School in 2016 as a state-champion wrestler. He is the older brother of Aaron Brooks, who won four NCAA wrestling titles for Penn State before capturing a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
