Sean Brady picked up the largest win of his profession as he outworked Gilbert Burns throughout 5 rounds to win a unanimous determination within the UFC Vegas 97 predominant occasion.
Showcasing continuous stress, a relentless tempo and far improved placing, Brady simply by no means allowed Burns to get going throughout the struggle. It was significantly spectacular contemplating Brady’s finest weapon is his grappling however that weapon was largely negated so he needed to show his different instruments to beat Burns.
When it was over there was little doubt that Brady had executed greater than sufficient to win with the judges scoring the struggle 50-45, 50-45 and 49-46 at hand him the victory.
“Gilbert’s a tricky motherf*cker however I knew that coming into this,” Brady stated after the win. “I simply stayed mentally and bodily targeted. I’m dwelling my goals, that is superb. Gilbert, he’s robust as f*ck. I assumed I did higher work on the ft than on the bottom. I caught to the sport plan.”
Brady was really compelled to indicate off his full set of abilities all through the struggle as a result of Burns refused to permit the takedown and when he did, the multi-time grappling champion was fast to reverse positions. That didn’t cease Brady from pushing again into the clinch as he tried to put on down Burns with a heavy tempo.
On the ft, Burns nonetheless displayed good energy at any time when he unleashed his greatest punches however Brady really displayed stable placing when he was buying and selling with the previous welterweight title contender. Whereas he discovered some success in these exchanges, Brady defaulted again to his grappling as he saved urgent ahead, pushing Burns towards the cage after which in search of the takedowns once more.
When Burns lastly bought some room to function, he cracked Brady with a few stiff punches after which launched knees up the center that positively bought the eye of the Philadelphia native. After he bought caught with a few these onerous photographs, Brady instantly reverted to the takedown as he slammed Burns to the bottom simply earlier than the third spherical got here to an in depth.
Whereas Brady was capable of stab away with a slick jab from the skin, he was nonetheless getting caught with some large punches coming from Burns on the skin. Burns clubbed him with a few large overhand rights however Brady ate the punches and went again to his clinch to sluggish the tempo down once more.
That led to a different large takedown from Brady but it surely didn’t take lengthy for Burns to reverse him to as soon as once more and present he’s nonetheless bought a few of the finest grappling within the division.
With time ticking away to the ultimate horn, Brady began chopping down Burns with some nasty inside leg kicks however the Brazilian wasn’t going away simply but. Burns uncorked a leaping knee however got here up brief and Brady ended up with one other takedown as he began counting down the seconds till he secured his victory.
Burns has now picked up back-to-back wins over Burns and Kelvin Gastelum since struggling his solely profession loss to present welterweight champion Belal Muhammad again in 2022. He takes a giant step ahead within the division after beating a longtime contender like Burns and now Brady is hoping he’ll be going through one of many division’s younger weapons subsequent.
“I must be ranked manner forward of Ian Machado Garry,” Brady stated. “I need somebody within the high 5. But when not me and Ian bought the identical f*cking supervisor, Lloyd [Pierson], run that shit.”
