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your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the
ESPN app. A main card tilt on the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s upcoming
pay-per-view event will have to wait a little longer to go
down. Per Sean
Brady (14-0) on his Instagram on
Thursday, his opponent Kevin Lee
(18-6) has been forced out of their
UFC 264 meeting on July 10. According to Brady and Ariel
Helwani, Lee suffered
a rib injury in training, and that the fight has been pulled
altogether from the event. Instead of Brady facing a new opponent
on short notice, he and his team are looking to schedule the fight
with Lee at an event in August, possibly for UFC 265 on Aug. 7.
Unbeaten as a pro, Brady has surged while in the UFC, with four
wins over names like Court McGee
and Jake
Matthews. The Renzo Gracie Philly standout most recently
submitted Matthews with an arm-triangle choke in March, and before
then, he put Christian
Aguilera to sleep with a guillotine choke in August 2020.
Making his way to the promotion largely by winning his way through
Cage Fury Fighting Championships, Brady won the
CFFC welterweight crown over Tanner
Saraceno in 2017, and defended it twice against in 2017 and
2019.
Lee has not competed since the very beginning of the COVID-19
pandemic, as he and future lightweight champ Charles
Oliveira locked horns on the UFC’s last event in March 2020
before its hiatus. Prior to falling short against Oliveira, Lee
rebounded from the first losing streak of his career by starching
Gregor
Gillespie with a head kick. “The Motown Phenom” sports wins
throughout his career over the likes of Edson
Barboza, Michael
Chiesa and the aforementioned Matthews.
UFC 264 will continue on July 10 with a trilogy headliner between
Dustin
Poirier and Conor
McGregor. A rarity for the promotion as of late, no belts will
be on the line throughout the night, with a co-headliner at
welterweight between former challengers Gilbert
Burns and Stephen
Thompson. Other main card pairings currently consist of
Irene
Aldana vs. Yana
Kunitskaya at bantamweight, and Sean
O’Malley vs. Louis
Smolka also at bantamweight.
