Sean Brady continued his climb up the welterweight rankings with a dominant efficiency towards Gilbert Burns within the UFC Vegas 97 headliner on Saturday evening.
Brady rapidly established himself because the quicker fighter on his toes, out-landing Burns with quite a lot of mixtures and mixing in his grappling to maintain the one-time title challenger underneath 10 vital strikes all through the opening spherical. Nevertheless, Burns acquired issues off to a sizzling begin within the second, touchdown a nasty knee up the center that wobbled Brady. That prompted Brady to clinch up and take a couple of moments towards the fence to shake off the cobwebs.
Burns’ offense noticed a big uptick within the second with him changing into simply the second fighter to ever take Brady all the way down to the mat contained in the Octagon, although he wasn’t capable of accomplish a lot with the takedown and sure ended the second stanza down 2-0.
Brady continued to dominate issues on the toes regardless of Burns’ greatest efforts to carry strain and put the rising contender on his backfoot. Brady ended the third spherical with a giant proper hand adopted by a profitable takedown, selecting up Burns and sending him crashing again all the way down to the canvas.
Within the opening 30 seconds of the fourth, we noticed dueling low blows as each Brady and Burns hit their opponent beneath the belt accidentally. Happily, each fighters had been capable of get well rapidly, getting us proper again to the motion.
Brady largely dominated the final two rounds minus the ultimate minute of the fourth with Burns managed to attain some management time, however not a lot else. Burns was fishing for the Hail Mary shot within the fifth, however Brady nullified that by taking him down with two minutes to go and driving out an all-but-guaranteed win on the scorecards.
Official End result: Sean Brady def. Gilbert Burns by way of unanimous resolution (50-45, 50-45, 49-46)
