No. 6-ranked welterweight contender Sean Brady takes on the No. 9-ranked 170-pounder Joaquin Buckley within the UFC Vegas 116 major occasion on the Meta Apex on April 25.
Each fighters are coming off losses and can look to return to successful methods. In 2025, Brady was TKO’d by Michael Morales at UFC 322, whereas Buckley misplaced to Kamaru Usman at UFC Atlanta.
Not too long ago, Brady, in an interview with SteadyPicks, mentioned a dialog he had with “New Mansa” outdoors the UFC PI. As per the 33-year-old, he was ready for an Uber when Buckley approached him.
“So we’re in Vegas. We’re on the Apex. That’s the place I used to be doing all my testing. I’m within the entrance. I used to be ready for an Uber, some loud a*s motherf*cker is popping out, it’s Buckley. He appears to be like over and says, ‘Sean Brady!’”
Buckley, who tends to talk a bit of louder than most, has already called out the entire welterweight division for staying inactive, has torched Shavkat Rakhmonov many occasions on social media, and has additionally taken some verbal digs at Sean Brady up to now, after which Brady blocked him on Instagram.
In the course of the aforementioned chat, “New Mansa” requested Brady why the latter had blocked him on Instagram. About that, the 33-year-old stated throughout the identical sitdown:
“Previous to this, he stated one thing about me with my employees an infection and me not washing my a*s. He was like ‘Man, why you block me on Instagram.’ We’re about like right here, and he’s loud as sh*t bro.”
“New Mansa” then advised Sean Brady that trash-talking is simply his method of promoting the combat, an ideology which the 33-year-old doesn’t approve of. He added:
“I’m him, I’m like, ‘I don’t like all this speaking sh*t.’ We’re speaking for like 5 minutes. He’s speaking about promoting fights.”
Brady added that after the transient interplay, he left as soon as his Uber arrived. Nevertheless, a couple of days later, he noticed Buckley declare in an interview that he had tried to talk to Brady, however the later refused and simply stood within the nook.
“My Uber comes, we bounce. I see an interview, this motherf*cker says that he was attempting to speak to me, and I stood in a nook. I do know folks from the PI. I believe I can take footage of it, I’m fairly positive he was attempting to shake my hand.”
Check out Sean Brady’s feedback beneath:
Sean Brady desires to submit Joaquin Buckley at UFC Vegas 116
Throughout the identical interview, Sean Brady, whereas speaking about his upcoming combat with Joaquin Buckley, opined that he’s going to be the primary fighter at hand “New Mansa” a submission loss.
To date, the 31-year-old has 7 losses in his professional MMA profession. Nevertheless, he has by no means been submitted. Therefore, Brady wants to be the one. He stated:
“On paper, it’s a striker vs. grappler… I don’t assume he has a single submission on his document. Whereas I’m a submission man. I believe I might submit anyone. I don’t assume he’s ever been submitted so, it will be good to be the primary one to place that on my document.”
Try the complete interview beneath:
