Sean Brady isn’t interested in the noise coming from Joaquin Buckley as he gets set to do battle at UFC 328 on Saturday night,
Brady dismissed the pre-fight theatrics and focused instead on his usual gameplan. Impose his grappling, control the pace, and let the fight play out on his terms.
“I don’t think so. We’ve seen each other at the PI (UFC Performance Institute). I was getting ready to fight Gilbert Burns. We literally talked for 5 minutes. I’m cool with the guys at the PI, they can pull up the footage of us talking,” Brady told reporters including Cageside Press on Wednesday.
“We had like a 5-10 minute conversation. My Uber came, me and my coach left, it was nothing bigger than that.”
Brady (18-2) isn’t buying into the pre-fight theatrics ahead of his matchup with Buckley. The welterweight contender made it clear his focus remains strictly on the fight, not the noise surrounding it.
“I’m sure Buckley’s doing what Buckley likes to do, try to sell a fight, which is fine. I have no bad blood against anybody that I’m fighting. I’m a grown man, I don’t have grudges, or personal beef with dudes. We’re going to fight Saturday, and that’s it for me,” he said.
“He tries to be more of a character, which I’m not and I’m not going to play into it, and I haven’t. It’s social media. Like that sh*t’s not real.”
Brady kept it simple discussing his approach against Buckley emphasizing a game plan that rarely changes. The grappler believes the matchup will come down to which fighter can impose their style first.
“That’s my game plan essentially for every fight. Go out there, take you down, and I just think I’m more of a submission threat than Kamaru is,” he said.
“This fight’s simple. It’s Buckley who’s going to want to keep it on the feet, I’m going to want to take it to the ground, and it’s going to be whoever can get there first.”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Sean Brady above. He faces Joaquin Buckley at UFC 328 on Saturday night.
