Joaquin Buckley remains to be reeling from his loss to Kamaru Usman in Atlanta.
Boasting a five-fight win streak, ‘New Mansa’ went into final Saturday’s headliner decided to get the most important win of his profession and put himself in pole place for a shot on the UFC welterweight championship. Evidently, issues didn’t go based on plan.
As a substitute, the ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ shut down Buckley’s offense with ease, scoring takedowns at will and touchdown a dominant unanimous resolution victory.
After getting taken down 4 instances and surrendering practically 13 minutes of management time to Usman, Buckley was left “embarrassed” by his efficiency.
“Each spherical he took me down, saved me there,” Buckley stated of Usman on his YouTube channel. “I couldn’t get again as much as my toes. I’m taking a look at Mike Beltran, like, ‘Bro, stand us up not less than one time, let me get again as much as my toes.’ I’m not going to deceive y’all, I really feel so embarrassed due to that loss.
“I really feel so humiliated due to that loss. However on the similar time, I’ve acquired to bow my head. Usman confirmed me who he was – honestly, bro. I’ve actually simply acquired to know that as many excuses that I could make about this battle, and why it didn’t go my method as a result of X, Y, Z – it don’t matter. That night time, it actually confirmed it’s ranges to this recreation.”
Joaquin Buckley was extra centered on the long run quite than the duty at hand
Although he was unwilling to supply any excuses for his poor efficiency, Buckley has a fairly good concept of what went improper.
“That was the primary time I went right into a battle, and I didn’t have that kill or be killed mentality, and that’s what sort of led to my downfall,” Buckley stated. “I’m taking a look at just about the following transfer, and the way massive and the way huge we’re going to develop into. That is our show-out second, and it’s OK to have that kind of mentality, however you’ve acquired to all the time keep in mind it’s simply one other battle. With that being stated, he had that key mentality. He was conscious of the risk that was in entrance of him, I wasn’t, and I wasn’t conscious of that risk till the fifth spherical, and that’s after I knew I needed to flip it on.”
