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Sean Brady is honest about where he stands in the UFC welterweight title picture.
Although Brady (18-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) had earned the No. 1 spot in the rankings with a dominant submission of former champion Leon Edwards at UFC Fight Night 255, he knows he'll need at least one more win before getting his title shot – especially after Jack Della Maddalena (18-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) dethroned Belal Muhammad (24-4 MMA, 15-4 UFC) to become champion in Saturday's UFC 315 headliner in Montreal.
"I knew if Jack won that I'd be fighting again, which I'm fine with," Brady said on "The Ariel Helwani Show." "Of course I want the title shot, but there's still Shavkat (Rakhmonov) there, there's Islam (Makhachev) saying he's moving up. You have Kamaru (Usman) and (Joaquin) Buckley saying whoever wins that's getting a title shot. So, we're all going to have to fight."
Brady has turned his attention to Ian Machado Garry (16-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC), who weighed in as the backup for the title fight between Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena.
"I'm going to have to fight Ian Garry eventually," Brady said. "Why not just do it now and just get it out of the way? If I'm as good as I think I am. I would fight Shavkat for the No. 1 contender, but he made a tweet with a surgeon next to him, so no one knows. He says he's coming back in October. That really means he's probably coming back the end of the year or even next year.
"Me and Ian had a little interaction at the fight. He was at the end of the isle, I was at the beginning, and he was like asking me what I thought from across the way. I was like, 'Me and you, that's what I think. I think me and you are going to have to fight now because we can't all wait around for a title shot.'"
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 315 outcome has Sean Brady calling for Ian Machado Garry fight
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Although Brady (18-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) had earned the No. 1 spot in the rankings with a dominant submission of former champion Leon Edwards at UFC Fight Night 255, he knows he'll need at least one more win before getting his title shot – especially after Jack Della Maddalena (18-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) dethroned Belal Muhammad (24-4 MMA, 15-4 UFC) to become champion in Saturday's UFC 315 headliner in Montreal.
"I knew if Jack won that I'd be fighting again, which I'm fine with," Brady said on "The Ariel Helwani Show." "Of course I want the title shot, but there's still Shavkat (Rakhmonov) there, there's Islam (Makhachev) saying he's moving up. You have Kamaru (Usman) and (Joaquin) Buckley saying whoever wins that's getting a title shot. So, we're all going to have to fight."
Brady has turned his attention to Ian Machado Garry (16-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC), who weighed in as the backup for the title fight between Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena.
"I'm going to have to fight Ian Garry eventually," Brady said. "Why not just do it now and just get it out of the way? If I'm as good as I think I am. I would fight Shavkat for the No. 1 contender, but he made a tweet with a surgeon next to him, so no one knows. He says he's coming back in October. That really means he's probably coming back the end of the year or even next year.
"Me and Ian had a little interaction at the fight. He was at the end of the isle, I was at the beginning, and he was like asking me what I thought from across the way. I was like, 'Me and you, that's what I think. I think me and you are going to have to fight now because we can't all wait around for a title shot.'"
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 315 outcome has Sean Brady calling for Ian Machado Garry fight
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