LAS VEGAS – Sean Brady aggressively dismissed the notion he was fraud-checked after losing to Belal Muhammad during a pre-fight news conference Wednesday.
Brady (16-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) suffered his first-career loss to Muhammad by TKO at UFC 280. Muhammad (24-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) went on to defeat Gilbert Burns, then dethrone Leon Edwards to become welterweight champion at UFC 304.
Brady’s loss to Muhammad aged well. The 31-year-old Philadelphia native lambasted anyone who claimed his hype was derailed.
“I don’t understand the fraud checked thing,” Brady told MMA Junkie and other reporters ahead of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 242. “First of all, Twitter f*cking sucks. It’s a cesspool full of miserable, miserable people. It’s insane. These people on there are nuts. You’d never say anything that these guys say to your face. They are some dork in their mom’s basement, just eating Cheetos.
“I got fraud checked. Joey (Pyfer) got fraud- checked. A bunch of other guys got fraud checked. What’s getting fraud checked by a fighter who is in the top 10, top 15? I just don’t understand it. That’s frustrating to see because it’s never other fighters who say it. I don’t understand the fraud checked thing. But, I guess I got fraud checked by the UFC champion. Thanks, bro.”
Brady rebounded from his loss to Muhammad with a Performance of the Night submission of Kelvin Gastelum in December. He meets former title challenger Gilbert Burns (22-7 MMA, 15-7 UFC) in Saturday’s main event at the UFC Apex.
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