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your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the
ESPN app. The Ultimate Fighting Championship has already
rescheduled a highly anticipated welterweight tilt for August. The organization
announced on Thursday that the previously postponed match
between Sean Brady
(14-0) and Kevin Lee
(18-6) will be slotted on to the Aug.
28 UFC Fight Night event. This fight card does not currently
have a headliner, although it is looking to go on at the UFC Apex
in Las Vegas. Lee
withdrew from their prior booking for UFC 264 in July due to a
rib injury.
The undefeated Brady has looked like a man possessed since making
his promotional debut at UFC on ESPN 6 in 2019. The Philadelphia
native has stormed through competition including Court McGee
and Ismail
Naurdiev, and most recently tapped Jake
Matthews in March. The former Cage Fury Fighting Championships champ hoists a
flat finish rate of 50 percent, although his last two victories
have come by submission.
Lee will be looking to make the most of his relocation to the
welterweight division, as he has dropped three of four bouts the
last three years. A move to 170 pounds in 2019 ended poorly when
“The Motown Phenom” was submitted by ex-lightweight champ Rafael dos
Anjos, prompting a return to lightweight. A brutal head kick
knockout of the then-unbeaten Gregor
Gillespie looked to turn things around, but future champ
Charles
Oliveira tapped him with a guillotine choke at the last UFC
card before it took a break for the pandemic.
The UFC Fight Night event on Aug. 28 will be held inside the UFC
Apex in Las Vegas, and the main event is still to be determined.
Joining Brady vs. Lee on the main card will likely be an important
bantamweight tilt between Ketlen
Vieira and Sara McMann,
as well as a classic striker vs. grappler middleweight pairing
between Makhmud
Muradov and Gerald
Meerschaert. Additionally, light heavyweight Dustin
Jacoby will face a new opponent as Askar
Mozharov was forced out of their bout, and in his place will be
Darren
Stewart, per
Jacoby’s team of Factory X on Thursday.
