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Events · UFC 328: Chimaev vs Strickland · Sean Brady vs Joaquin Buckley
Red corner SeanBradyRenzo Gracie Philly · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
VSSettled
Blue corner JoaquinBuckley“New Mansa”Murcielago MMA · St. Louis, Missouri
Welterweight3 rounds9 May 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Buckley.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Brady.
19-2
Record
21-8
33
Age
−1 yr32
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
72″
Reach
+4″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
10
UFC bouts
+616
4/850% of wins
Finishes
+23%8/1173% of wins
Renzo Gracie Philly
Gym
Murcielago MMA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
From
St. Louis, Missouri
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Sean Brady
61.2% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 54%
Vs the market−3.5pp
Market had our pick at65%
The fight
Sean Brady
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Sean Brady at 61.2% and Sean Brady won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Sean Brady34 sig landed
HEAD100%34 of 68BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Joaquin Buckley1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 1
34 of 68
Sig.
strikes
1 of 8
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:12
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 32
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brady firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sean Brady18 sig landed
HEAD100%18 of 52BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Joaquin Buckley4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 14BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 52
Sig.
strikes
4 of 16
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:33
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brady firstEric Colón10–8Sal D'Amato10–8Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sean Brady25 sig landed
HEAD96%24 of 59BODY0%0 landedLEGS4%1 of 1
Joaquin Buckley0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 7 thrown

25 of 60
Sig.
strikes
0 of 7
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:24
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 22
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brady firstEric Colón10–8Sal D'Amato10–8Dave Tirelli10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Sean BradyJoaquin Buckley
Official totals — Sean Brady first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–25
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–25
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 16 scored, Sean Brady first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–24
E. Casey Leydon30–24
Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–24
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–25
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–25
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–25
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–25
MM AMania.com30–25
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–25
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–25
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–25
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–25
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–25
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–26

Fan vote · unofficial

30-25 Brady · 50%30-24 Brady · 39%30-27 Brady · 5%30-26 Brady · 4%30-23 Brady · 1%

194 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Sean Brady

3.58takedowns / 15 min
3.58 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.43 / 15m
7.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.18 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
45%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Joaquin Buckley

1.43takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Sean BradyJoaquin BuckleyPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Sean Brady vs Joaquin Buckley — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Sean Brady and Joaquin Buckley from May 02 to May 09, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Sean Brady moves from 63% to 36% and Joaquin Buckley from 37% to 64%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.30%40%50%60%70%May 2May 4May 6May 8May 9▲ our call: Sean Brady (MED)36%64%

From the open the market drifted away from our pick: Sean Brady's implied chance moved down from 63% to 36% (−27.5pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Sean Brady at 61.2%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 35.5% — our number sat 25.7pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Sean Brady — sportsbook consensus64.5%34.4%64.7%34.9%−29.6pp
Joaquin Buckley — sportsbook consensus35.5%35.3%65.6%65.1%+29.6pp
Sean Brady — Polymarket63.0%35.5%63.5%35.5%−27.5pp
Joaquin Buckley — Polymarket37.0%36.5%64.5%64.5%+27.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,588 snapshots on file · window May 02 18:46May 09 23:57Z · last capture May 09, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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