Strategic Victory: Patrick Brady Analyzes Aggressive Tactics

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00:00Let's talk about it right out of the gates, you know,

00:02was that the plan to come aggressive right out of the way?

00:04Because, you know, sometimes it's a feeling out process,

00:07of course, less with the BKFC.

00:09A lot of times, given that you guys only have two minutes,

00:10but I mean, it's about three to four seconds

00:13of you guys staring at each other,

00:14and then you just mauled them.

00:16Yeah, I mean, honestly, Brian,

00:18I was really surprised he backed up right away.

00:21The plan was always to get him to back up.

00:25And that's pretty much the plan with anybody

00:27who I'm fighting in there.

00:29And he backed up right out of the gate.

00:34So I'm like, all right, well, if you're backing up,

00:37I'm going to come forward, which is always my plan.

00:41So I was really surprised that he backed up.

00:44And, you know, I just, look, we were working entries.

00:50My team and I, Chris Dalkus, Kyle Dalkus,

00:53and John Mercurio, Dalkus brothers,

00:56obviously most notable for fighting in the UFC.

01:00We were working entries, and we had specific set-up entries

01:04that we knew were going to work on Zach

01:06based on how he responded to certain strikes

01:09in previous films that we had watched on him.

01:12So I kind of knew, like, his hand placement

01:15and what he was going to do for certain,

01:18you know, like I said, for certain strikes.

01:20So we had things set up and in place

01:23that we had repped thousands of times.

01:25And everything kind of went exactly according to plan,

01:29other than, I was kind of, honestly,

01:33I was kind of hoping for more of a fight.

01:39Look, I just, I don't know, man,

01:40I want a little more of a fight.

01:42And, like, it was, like you said,

01:45there was a lot of people there, 17,000 people.

01:47And if anyone didn't know Zach or, you know,

01:52the success that he had had in bare-knuckle

01:56with being on a four-fight win streak,

01:58if anyone didn't know any better,

01:59it looks like I just walked in there

02:01and mauled a guy who shouldn't have been in there.

02:04You know what I mean?

02:07But, you know, Zach's an extinguished bare-knuckle fighter.

02:12Like, he's won some fights, man,

02:17and he was on a tear.

02:19And it just, it was a little easier than I thought.

02:25Or, I mean, it's hard to say.

02:28I wish, you know what I mean?

02:30But I'm happy with the outcome.

02:32I just, there's that little bit of me that says,

02:34like, they're shit talkers, you know?

02:36The people who talk shit.

02:38And, you know, they say things like,

02:40oh, you know, you went in there

02:43and beat up a dude who was out of shape.

02:45And it was like, no, I didn't.

02:47I went in there and... performed at an elite level

02:52against an accomplished bare-knuckle fighter

02:56on a four-fight win streak.

02:57That's what I did.

02:58It's not like I just went in there

02:59and just beat up... Kevin off the streets.

03:05That is true.

03:06Zach was on a four-fight win streak.

03:07I mean, we were talking to him before the fight about,

03:10I mean, do you get in the top five rankings

03:12if you get this win?

03:13Five in a row, he had four finishes.

03:15So it was definitely not a pushover,

03:16not some bum that they just picked to make you look good.

03:19But you did look good.

03:21I like, you know, we saw the video there at the end,

03:22you know, just the one, two, one, two.

03:24That's just like the speed rounds

03:25at the end of a workout on the bag

03:27that, you know, just trying to get that extra cardio in.

03:29I said, even like, oh, I have to look for my openings.

03:32It just went everything your way,

03:34despite Zach being the tough guy that he usually is.

03:37Did you know after the first knockdown,

03:39the early knockdown that you had about 15 seconds in,

03:41that it was going to be your night?

03:43Or did you still have to, of course,

03:44give respect because of how tough and powerful he is,

03:47but did you feel like you were in control

03:48at that point already?

03:50No, no, I knew that Zach could take a beating, right?

03:54I knew that Zach could take a beating.

03:55So I knew one knockdown wasn't going to do it.

03:59So after I knocked him down, you know, again,

04:01I just went back to my training

04:03and I just went to a different entry, right?

04:06Like my first entry was a two, three,

04:09and then that second entry that I went into,

04:14my first entry was a three, two.

04:16My second entry was a one, two to body, three at top, right?

04:20Which, like, it sounds like you're just saying numbers,

04:22one, two, three, right?

04:24But like, there's specific head placement, right?

04:28There's foot placement.

04:29There's range, where you are with your range.

04:32There's a lot that goes into an entry.

04:35It's not just like throw the punch, right?

04:38Throw a two, throw a three.

04:40It was like every single detail as to that entry was wrecked.

04:46And where my feet are, where my head is,

04:49where my hand placement's going to be,

04:50where my range is,

04:53what am I doing on a follow-up, my recoil, my hand placement?

04:57Am I bringing it back to my face?

04:58Am I bringing it back to my chest?

05:00Where am I going?

05:02Everything was really specific.

05:04And, you know, look, it worked, right?

05:08And after the knockdown,

05:13I closed the distance again, and I re-entered.

05:16I knew he was going to still throw back, right?

05:19So you could tell, like, there was a couple moments

05:21where I was expecting the return, right?

05:24And I stepped back, and there was a couple where

05:27we were training getting back in, right?

05:29Like, we actually trained, like,

05:32listen, get your hands on the ropes

05:34and get chest-to-chest with him

05:36because he's just going to throw wild, right?

05:38And if you're in that tight, he can't land anything.

05:41And then step back out, and then get back to striking.

05:45We also worked striking from an angle,

05:47so getting off to the right of him

05:50and throwing that uppercut.

05:51Like, everything you threw, I was repping.

05:53I was working.

05:55My partners were holding mitts, and I was training and sparring.

05:58So it's not like what you're looking at

06:02is just a wild man throwing punches.

06:05Like, those were accurate, calculated strikes

06:09that I'd been training specifically for.

06:12So, um...

06:15I thought the ref probably could have stopped it

06:18a little bit sooner.

06:20You can hear me in the one clip yell at the ref,

06:23stop it, like, because I could have done that,

06:27and I could throw punches like that

06:29for another three minutes.

06:31Like, I can...

06:33Like, I have videos of me, like, literally training

06:37that sequence over and over and over again.

06:41I could do that for, you know, two rounds, three rounds.

06:46So, um...

06:48I'm happy with the result.

06:50I wish it would have been a little bit more of a war,

06:54but that's just for the naysayers,

06:55not necessarily because I want to get beat up.

06:58But, uh, just for the people who told me it and say that,

07:03you know, he beat up a bum.

07:04But I guess I really shouldn't care what people think.

07:06I got my hand raised in front of 17,000 people, so...

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