UFC welterweight contender Sean Brady had to deal with more than just preparing for Belal Muhammad ahead of UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi. Brady suffered the first loss of his professional career against Muhammad on the UFC 280 main card. After a back-and-forth…
UFC welterweight contender Sean Brady had to deal with more than just preparing for Belal Muhammad ahead of UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi. Brady suffered the first loss of his professional career against Muhammad on the UFC 280 main card. After a back-and-forth first round, Muhammad hit him with a barrage in Round 2 to…
Sean Brady has opened up about the hate he received after his loss to Belal Muhammad. Top ten-ranked welterweight contender Brady took on Muhammad in his last outing at UFC 280. He went into the bout looking to extend his 15-fight win streak against Muhammad, who put his eight-fight unbeaten run on the line. Muhammad […]
Sean Brady has opened up about the hate he received after his loss to Belal Muhammad.
Top ten-ranked welterweight contender Brady took on Muhammad in his last outing at UFC 280. He went into the bout looking to extend his 15-fight win streak against Muhammad, who put his eight-fight unbeaten run on the line. Muhammad came out firing from the get-go and dispatched Brady by TKO in round two.
Sean Brady opens up on the hate he received in the loss to Belal Muhammad
In a recent appearance on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Sean Brady talked about the criticism he received for losing his undefeated record after the first loss of his professional career.
“Someone messaged her and said that if I won the fight against Belal that they would kill me and bury me in the desert – it was pretty bad,” Brady said (transcribed by MMA Fighting). “She was right there front row sitting with [Joe Pyfer], and she busted through the security and got to me when I was walking out of the [octagon], but she was right there [in Abu Dhabi] with me, [and] she got messages.”
Brady hit back at the haters who threatened his wife
Whether it was due to losing a wager or for any other reason, Brady does not appreciate the side of fans that causes problems for his wife.
“Dude, these fans, they’re scumbags,” Brady said. “Don’t get me wrong, there’s great fans, then there are these people with fake profiles that write to you afterward. I just read this message [earlier this week] that was like, ‘You’re a piece of s***’ – they just say the most wild things to you.I don’t let it get to me. I try not to lean into that s*** anymore. But my wife, she’s a registered nurse. All she does is take care of people, and people are threatening her, calling her this, calling her that.“
Brady encouraged the haters to message him directly if they had something to
“Message me. Don’t message my wife, especially if you’re a man. Be a man. Say it to me, don’t say it to my f****** wife, because my wife could probably beat you up.”
Belal Muhammad scored perhaps the biggest win of his UFC, handing previously undefeated contender Sean Brady his first career loss in a dominant performance. Extending his winning streak to eight in a row, Muhammad put away Brady in the second round via TKO. Speaking to ESPN’s Marc Raimondi, Muhammad discussed his training camp building up […]
Belal Muhammad scored perhaps the biggest win of his UFC, handing previously undefeated contender Sean Brady his first career loss in a dominant performance.
Extending his winning streak to eight in a row, Muhammad put away Brady in the second round via TKO. Speaking to ESPN’s Marc Raimondi, Muhammad discussed his training camp building up to the UFC 280 showdown, specifically his experience working with UFC Hall of Famer, Khabib Nurmagomedov.
“This guy doesn’t understand tired. We’re going from sparring to grappling, and then he tells me ‘Come in the cage’ and he’s putting me on the fence and taking me down at will and just, like, drowning me,” Muhammad said.
“I’m sitting there dead and all of a sudden at the end of it, they’re like, ‘Well, OK, you got three minutes of planks.’ I’m sitting there, dripping, I look to my right and I see Islam there. He tells me, ‘Khabib does not know tired.’ There needs to be some rest in between because the practices are so hard that my body ended up breaking down halfway through.”
Belal Muhammad Compares Khabib Nurmagomedov to Another Legendary Athlete
Belal Muhammad compared Nurmagomedov’s determination and strive for greatness to that of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, the five-time NBA Champion, and 18-time NBA All-Star who tragically passed away in a helicopter crash with his daughter Gianna and seven others in 2020.
“He demands greatness from you. I just watched (The Redeem Team) and how Kobe Bryant would go to the gym at 4 AM and it made the other guys work that much harder. Khabib is the same way where you want to do extra for him. You want to push yourself much harder for him because he doesn’t have to be there. He’s got all the money in the world, he’s got all the accolades in the world, he’s been a champion.
“He’s accomplished it all, but he’s giving you his time, his knowledge. Even when we’d do warm-ups and he’d tell us, ‘You guys aren’t pushing hard enough. What are you guys doing? You gotta do it again.’ So we have to go again. There’ll be some guys that’ll come in tired, and he’ll take their phone from them at night, and he’ll be like, ‘You need to go to sleep on time.’” (H/T Bloody Elbow)
Under the tutelage of Nurmagomedov, Belal Muhammad improved to 22-3-0. His knockout of Sean Brady earned him a $50,000 performance bonus and moved him into the No. 4 stop on the promotion’s welterweight rankings.
Sean Brady is trying to stay positive after heartbreakingly suffering his first pro loss to Belal Muhammad. Heading into this UFC 280 clash at welterweight, Brady was looked at as a prospect with a ton of potential, being undefeated in his 15 fight car…
Sean Brady is trying to stay positive after heartbreakingly suffering his first pro loss to Belal Muhammad. Heading into this UFC 280 clash at welterweight, Brady was looked at as a prospect with a ton of potential, being undefeated in his 15 fight career to that point. Unfortunately, he would come up short to an…
Sean Brady is trying to stay positive after heartbreakingly suffering his first pro loss to Belal Muhammad. Heading into this UFC 280 clash at welterweight, Brady was looked at as a prospect with a ton of potential, being undefeated in his 15 fight car…
Sean Brady is trying to stay positive after heartbreakingly suffering his first pro loss to Belal Muhammad. Heading into this UFC 280 clash at welterweight, Brady was looked at as a prospect with a ton of potential, being undefeated in his 15 fight career to that point. Unfortunately, he would come up short to an…
UFC welterweight contender Belal Muhammad stopped Sean Brady’s undefeated hype train in a remarkable fashion at UFC 280. Muhammad and Brady wrapped up the UFC 280 prelims on Saturday in Abu Dhabi. The two welterweights entered the Octagon both on…
UFC welterweight contender Belal Muhammad stopped Sean Brady’s undefeated hype train in a remarkable fashion at UFC 280. Muhammad and Brady wrapped up the UFC 280 prelims on Saturday in Abu Dhabi. The two welterweights entered the Octagon both on impressive winning streaks and looking to move a step closer to a title shot. Brady…