Sean Brady is a dark horse at 170-pounds.

The UFC welterweight division, now lorded over by new champion Belal Muhammad, has seemed to have a nailed-on list of contenders: the unbeaten pair of Shavkat Rakhmonov and Ian Machado Garry, or perhaps the former champion Kamaru Usman, whose candidacy for a title shot has been underscored by recent comments from Muhammad. Then you have Jack Della Maddalena waiting in the wings.

One name, though, that has flown somewhat under the radar is the 16-1 Sean Brady; the 31-year-old Philly native who finds himself in the unfortunate position of his sole career loss coming against the newly-crowned champion.

While he is likely at least a couple of wins away from a potential championship bout of his own, Brady can move one step closer this weekend inside the UFC’s Apex facility outside Las Vegas if he can take out the former welterweight title challenger Gilbert Burns in a fight forecasted as being a battle between two of the division’s best grapplers.

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