Sean Brady isn’t afraid to work for his alternatives.
In March, Brady dominated former champion Leon Edwards at UFC London, launching himself into the thick of the welterweight title dialog. Whereas welterweight presently has a logjam of contenders on the prime, Brady’s spectacular win appeared like it will make him a lock for some type of title eliminator matchup subsequent, if not a title combat. Solely that’s not precisely what has occurred.
This week, the UFC introduced that Brady will combat undefeated prospect Michael Morales at UFC 322 in November. It’s the worst sort of combat for a contender, a troublesome opponent who’s behind him within the rankings and doesn’t have the identical hype as a few of the different prime names. However that didn’t cease Brady from accepting the problem, and on a latest episode of his BradyBagz podcast on the SteadyPicks YouTube channel, Brady defined why.
“I took this combat as a result of fighters combat, and there’s actually no different choices,” Brady stated. “From what the UFC instructed me, that is it. That is the one man I might combat or else I wasn’t preventing till subsequent yr. I’ve been making an attempt to combat, and it doesn’t matter what, we’re going to need to combat all these guys regardless.
“Michael Morales is a good fighter. He’s 18-0. He’s going to be round for a very long time, he’s younger. So whether or not I combat him now or I combat him later, I’m going to need to get to him finally. So f*ck it, I’ll get him out of the best way now.”
“Coming off beating Leon, after which I take this threat of preventing this younger up-and-comer, as soon as I beat him, I’m simple for the title shot after that. And that’s what I’m going to show to do. I’m simply going to develop into simple till they’ve to present me the title shot.
“I’m not ready round. I’m not making an attempt to take a seat right here. There’s no good matchup within the UFC. Everybody is hard; everybody hits exhausting. We’re the very best fighters on this planet. So that you’ve bought to be able to combat any of them, and that is what they got here with, and I stated yeah.”
Solely 26 years previous and presently ranked No. 6 within the UFC welterweight rankings, Morales is 6-0 within the UFC and coming off the most important win of his profession, a first-round knockout of former title challenger Gilbert Burns in Might. Some consider the Ecuadorian fighter may very well be the way forward for the welterweight division, however he’s a number of spots behind Brady within the rankings, making a title shot removed from a assure with a win. However Brady insists that half doesn’t matter.
“On the finish of the day, the UFC doesn’t give a f*ck in regards to the rankings,” Brady stated. “They make the selections on the finish of the day. I’m going on the market and beat Michael Morales after simply beating Leon, they’ll’t preserve denying me a title shot. They make the fights. The rankings don’t make the fights, the followers don’t make the fights, the UFC makes the fights. So I preserve going on the market, I preserve being simple, you’re going to have to present me what I need, regardless.
“And if not, I’m a fighter. I receives a commission to combat. I like to combat. So I’m simply going to maintain preventing till I get there anyway.”
And for Brady, it doesn’t actually matter who he faces anyway, as a result of no matter opponent, the end result goes to be the identical.
“I’m going to beat him the identical manner I beat anyone else on this planet: I take him down and I submit him or I ground-and-pound him till the ref pulls me off.”
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That is the hardest sort of combat: excessive threat, low reward. I’m glad Brady is assured about his title shot, as a result of I’m far much less so. Welterweight has too many names proper now, and most of them are larger than Brady.
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