Joaquin Buckley thinks Ariel Helwani’s days are numbered.
Final 12 months, Buckley appeared on The MMA Hour, which was hosted by Helwani earlier than his cut up with MMA Combating. Throughout the section, Buckley tore into the long-time fight sports activities journalist, accusing him of attempting to make use of fighters as ammunition for his anti-UFC agenda.
“I respect what you do and also you do it very properly… However me personally, I really feel like once we come in your present. You attempt to use us as a weapon towards the UFC,” Buckley advised Helwani in April 2024. “[You] use your platform to set us up. Asking questions with fighters that [Helwani] already know that what we speak about may get us in hassle with [The UFC].”
In a latest interview with Parry Punch, Buckley opened up the year-old wound, suggesting that Helwani could also be overstaying his welcome within the MMA group.
“He’s simply mad, he’s simply mad ’trigger I ain’t attempting to be on the present,” Buckley mentioned. “And finally, ’trigger you see the numbers, it’s doing horrible, bro, I ain’t gonna lie. I’ve been trying—I’ll be trying—I really feel just like the every day ain’t working. I really feel prefer it’s an excessive amount of of him. It was a pair days per week, so finally, it’s simply going to die. His present is simply going to die finally, bro.”
Ariel Helwani went toe-to-toe with Michael Bisping not lengthy after the Buckley incident
Helwani was famously banned from the Final Combating Championship in 2016 after Dana White accused him of leaking information of Brock Lesnar’s shock return to the Octagon at UFC 200.
Since then, Helwani has pulled no punches relating to his beef with the UFC CEO and fighters who’ve lobbed criticism towards him, all within the identify of getting a gold star from White.
Just some brief weeks after his intense interview with Buckley, Helwani discovered himself in a confrontation with fighter-turned-commentator Michael Bisping.
After Helwani broke the information that Conor McGregor was out of his beforehand scheduled UFC 303 headliner with Michael Chandler, ‘The Depend’ went off on Helwani, accusing him of spreading rumors on social media in a feeble try to get clicks.
The subsequent day, Helwani snapped again, calling Bisping a “former unhealthy boy who turned a boot licker.” Helwani even went as far as to take credit score for Bisping’s middleweight title victory at UFC 199.
Helwani’s report about McGregor was additionally confirmed to be true, as the previous two-division champion bowed out of his long-awaited comeback battle as a result of a damaged pinky toe.
10-8 Helwani.
