{"id":496147,"date":"2026-02-22T05:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496147\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:24:07","slug":"sean-brady-vs-joaquin-buckley-tops-ufc-vegas-116-on-april-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496147\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Brady vs. Joaquin Buckley Tops UFC Vegas 116 on April 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men looking to break into the upper echelon of the welterweight contender scene will do battle in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-vegas-116\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 116<\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/sean-brady\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Brady<\/a> takes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/joaquin-buckley\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joaquin Buckley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC confirmed the bout in an announcement during the UFC Houston broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Both men are coming in off losses but are still ranked in the top 10 at 170 pounds, and a strong performance could gain the winner a top-five opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Brady comes into this bout off a loss to Michael Morales at UFC 322 in November. He had won three straight prior to that and was once 15-0 before running into then-future welterweight champion Belal Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>Buckley last fought this past June, dropping a decision to the returning former welterweight champion Kamaru Usman at UFC Atlanta. Prior to that, Buckley had won six straight and hadn&#8217;t lost since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Vegas 116 takes place on April 25 at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men looking to break into the upper echelon of the welterweight contender scene will do battle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,142455,785,64238,85,249992],"class_list":{"0":"post-496147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-joaquin-buckley","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sean-brady","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-vegas-116"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}