Making a return at UFC Tampa this weekend, surging welterweight contender, Joaquin Buckley has vowed to complete former interim champion, Colby Covington in devastating trend — because the pair put together to shut out the promotion’s calendar for the annum.
Buckley, who at present boasts the quantity 9 ranked welterweight contender, most lately featured at UFC 307 two months in the past, touchdown a surprising come-from-behind knockout win over former two-time title challenger, Stephen Thompson.
As for Covington, the outspoken Clovis native will snap a year-long hiatus from the Octagon this weekend in ‘The Sunshine State’, most lately competing for the undisputed welterweight champion final December in a one-sided unanimous resolution loss to former champion, Leon Edwards.
Joaquin Buckley vows to knock out Colby Covington in brutal trend at UFC Tampa
And forward of his high-stakes conflict with the returning, Covington — who changed UFC 310 co-headliner, Ian Garry on this weekend’s major occasion conflict with Buckley at UFC Tampa, the latter has vowed to land a ferocious knockout win over the veteran.
“My preventing model is already a finisher, proper?” Joaquin Buckley informed Inside Combating. “So I’m not going to be emotionally invested on this battle. I’m simply going to do what I do as a result of I’m already a devastating fighter. You had an individual like who I fought with—Marvel Boy, the nicest man on the earth. Didn’t say not one imply factor about me. You already know, I didn’t discuss my household, didn’t discuss something that I liked, and I nonetheless took him to the bottom. I nonetheless knocked him out, proper?
But once more, that is simply enterprise,” Joaquin Buckley continued. “However the one factor and the one distinction is, proper if I actually do really feel some sort of approach, which I’m not saying I wouldn’t, but when I do knock you out, now, do I make the selection of stopping or hold going, proper?”