UFC Fight Night 198 – Michael Chiesa vs. Sean Brady Fight Analysis & Predictions

Two amazing athletes will share the octagon at UFC Fight night 198 in the co-main event. Michael Chiesa is famous for his submission game and Sean Brady with his domination on the ground.

Chiesa is a very experienced grappler who has been a member of the UFC since 2012. He earned 11 victories and suffered 5 defeats in the promotion. However, he started his career in the lightweight and could not recover well after weight cuts. After changing weight category and moving up to the welterweight division, he earned 4 victories in a row, but Vicente Luque stopped his amazing winning streaks. 11 out of his 18 victories are via submission, and he never earned any TKO or KO victories in his professional MMA career.

Sean Brady already earned some experience inside the octagon. It is going to be his 5th battle in the UFC. Since 2019, he has fought 4 times and earned 2 unanimous decisions and 2 submission victories. He remains undefeated with the record 14-0-0. In his last contest, he stopped excellent Australian prospect Jake Matthews, in the 3rd round via submission Arm-Triangle Choke.

None of the fighters has some amazing skills in striking, but when two grapplers face each other, they are trying to compare striking abilities. However, Chiesa has a really huge reach advantage of 8 CM.

I think that Brady will defeat Chiesa in this bout. Chiesa indeed has an amazing submission game, but his submission defense is not good because he is risking a lot during rolling. He is trying to be fast and submit to people as soon as possible, and during this process, he is missing opportunities. As he did in his last bout against Vicente Luque, when Luque survived, Chiesa wanted to get up as fast as possible, and the Brazilian caught him and finished him. Brady is a very careful fighter who controls people on the ground and submits them after they get tired, so I think fewer mistakes will be fatal in this bout. I would go for Brady in this bout, who has the odds around 1.7