How UFC fighter Sean Brady flipped the odds on $200k in suspicious anonymous wagers

Extremely suspicious betting line movement had UFC fans in a tizzy.

On Saturday, Philadelphia native Sean Brady saw his betting line move incredibly fast at UFC 327 for reasons that remain unclear leading fans across the world thinking he was either injured, sick, or worst case — throwing the fight.

Brady moved from -150 to +200 in a matter of hours, with no rhyme or reason pointing to anything that would signal such a drastic change.

His opponent, Joaquin Buckley, was getting obscene amounts of betting action on Saturday, including one bettor at the offshore book Betonline, which takes wagers anonymously.

The unknown bettor clearly thought they had some information, betting $20,000 10 times (for a total of $200,000) on Buckley at ranging odds from +150 to +135 as the line wound up completely flipping as high as -250 in favor of Buckley.

Whatever information that bettor was working with was clearly terrible, as Brady dominated the fight with a unanimous decision victory and looked every bit the favorite he opened at and then some.

The Post can confirm that IC360, a gambling integrity firm, flagged the fight for irregular betting activity, but it appears nothing nefarious was going on.

More players were in the action on the prediction markets, with Polymarket (which also operates anonymously) showing massive trades on Buckley, including an account known as “Mikesports” buying $63,606 worth of contracts on Buckley at plus-money.

Sean Brady beat the breaks off Joaquin Buckley on Saturday. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

Though that account is down $326,000 at the time of writing, perhaps he was just chasing the steam thinking Brady was compromised when he, in fact, was not.

After the fight, Brady told reporters he knew of the line movement, but had no idea why it was moving in any direction.

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“Somebody at the UFC reached out to me a couple of hours before the fight and just made sure I was fine,” Brady said.” I was like, ‘I’m completely fine, there’s nothing wrong with me.’ My wife was upstairs; they already all knew about it, they weren’t telling me because they didn’t want anything to get into my head. But as soon as they called, I told them I’m good, it went one ear out of the other. I could have been a -10000 favorite or a +10000 [underdog], I wouldn’t know cause I didn’t look.”

Brady looked like he was the biggest favorite on the card, posting 245 total strikes to 21 for Buckley as he looks to get back into the title picture at welterweight.

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