Who is Josh Brueckner?
Josh Brueckner was born in Michigan, USA, on 11 April 1995 – his zodiac sign is Aries and he holds American nationality. He is a Pro Middleweight Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, a social media star and a YouTuber, who might be known best for being one half of the YouTube channel “Jatie Vlogs”.
Early life, brother and education
Josh was raised in Michigan alongside his brother Alex by their father who is a businessman, and their mother who is working as a nurse at a local hospital.
Josh’s brother is a popular YouTuber whose channel is subscribed to by more than 100,000 people and who mostly uploads comedy content including pranks, challenges and similar. Alex is gay and has a boyfriend.
Josh became interested in working out at a very early age, and became interested in boxing after he was bullied by his peers at elementary school. It took him two months of training to stand up to the bullies, and he then started protecting other kids at school who were also bullied.
He became serious about his training sessions after enrolling at a local high school, as he started going to the gym several times each week, and also became interested in MMA. Josh matriculated in 2013, and then chose not to enroll at a college but to focus on his career.
Josh’s career
Josh is today mostly focused on his career as an MMA fighter, and ranks 9th out of 26 active MMA fighters from Michigan competing in the category Pro Middleweight – Josh is working out at the Michigan Top Team Gym located in Dearborn, and is also today a boxing instructor and a personal trainer.
He is active on YouTube, and he and his girlfriend Katie Betzing launched their channel “Jatie Vlogs” on 19 April 2016, today subscribed to by close to 2.7 million people, and counts more than 650 million views of all their videos combined. The two upload videos taken during their everyday lives, including pranks and challenges, and their two most popular videos are “PROPOSING TO MY GIRLFRIEND IN FRONT OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE *I CRIED*” as it has been watched over 8.2 million times since 12 November 2019, and “PICKED UP MY GIRLFRIEND IN AN UBER UNDER DISGUISE!! *She Ran*”, watched more than 6.1 million times since 15 July 2019.
Josh also has his own YouTube channel, but it’s subscribed to by only around 4,600 people – Katie is a lot more popular on her personal YouTube channel, as it’s subscribed to by close to 1.4 million people, and counts more than 100 million views of all her videos combined.
Josh is quite popular on Instagram, as he’s followed by more than 680,000 people and has uploaded close to 500 pictures, most of which have been taken during his everyday life, and he’s also active on TikTok as he’s followed by around 40,000 people, and has gathered around 400,000 likes of all his pictures and videos combined.
Love life and girlfriend
Josh is very open concerning his relationship with Katie Betzing, and it’s believed by many of the two’s fans that they met while still attending high school, and have been together close to a decade now. In November 2019, Josh asked Katie to marry him in front of several thousand people in an MMA ring, and Katie said ‘yes’ – it is believed that the wedding has been planned for the summer of 2021, but Josh and Katie haven’t confirmed this.
Katie is also quite active on Instagram, as she’s followed by more than 920,000 people, and has uploaded over 1,000 pictures, while she’s also an entrepreneur having launched her own make-up line – Jatie Beauty.
Josh hasn’t talked about any other girls he might have been with, and as of November 2020, he is engaged to Katie Betzing, hasn’t married and doesn’t have children.
Hobbies and other interests
Josh spends most of his time working out at the gym, as this is important for his career as an MMA fighter; he’s also following a strict diet, and eats the food chosen for him by his personal nutritionist.
He is a lover of animals, and he and Katie have a pet dog which can be seen featured in some of their pictures on Instagram.
One of Josh’s main hobbies is travelling, and he and Katie have been on several road trips, as they prefer to travel by car than by ‘plane. They haven’t been to Europe so far, but are planning to spend their honeymoon in France.
Late at night, Josh likes to watch movies starring some of his favorite actors and actresses Vin Diesel, Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman, such as the franchise “The Fast and the Furious”, “Pitch Black” and another franchise “Pirates of the Caribbean”.
Age, height and net worth
Josh is 25 years old. He has short brown hair and brown eyes, his height is 5ft 10ins (1.78m) and he weighs around 187lbs (85kgs).
As of November 2020, his net worth has been estimated at over $200,000.