Sean Brady wants to beat Joaquin Buckley like no one ever has before.
Brady (18-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) takes on Buckley (21-7 MMA, 11-5 UFC) in the UFC Fight Night 274 main event April 25 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas.
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Brady will look to rebound from a quick TKO loss to Michael Morales at UFC 322 in November. He never had a chance to get going and vows not to make the same mistake against Buckley.
“I just have to go and actually do what I planned to do my entire training camp,” Brady said on his “BradyBagz Show.” “I went in there in the Morales fight, I got caught, I didn’t shoot early enough, I didn’t follow my game plan, and ultimately that led to me losing the fight. I just never got going. So, I’m going to go out there. I’m going to get going early, beat Buckley’s ass, then go on from there.”
Buckley is also aiming to rebound after getting outgrappled by former champion Kamaru Usman last June. Brady believes he’s a bigger finishing threat on the ground than Usman.
“On paper, it’s a striker vs. grappler,” Brady said. “He just lost by grappling, I just lost by striking, so it’s going to be who’s coming, who’s going. I’m excited for it. …For me against anybody is get them down and strangle them or hit them until the ref pulls me off.
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“I don’t think Kamaru’s a submission threat. I don’t think he has a single submission on his record. Whereas me, I’m a submission guy. I think I could submit anybody. I don’t think he’s ever been submitted so, it would be nice to be the first one to put that on my record.”
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC Fight Night 274: Sean Brady aims to do something no one has
