Joaquin Buckley is aware of who the true Colby Covington is.
Buckley will look to attain the most important win of his UFC profession on Saturday evening when he closes out the promotion’s 2024 with a high-stakes scrap towards the three-time title challenger in Tampa.
It is going to be Covington’s first time competing since delivering a lackluster exhibiting towards then-welterweight champion Leon Edwards at UFC 296 round this identical time final 12 months. Within the time since, Covington claims to have stored busy by campaigning on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump.
Now that ’45’ has gained re-election, ‘Chaos’ is able to get again into the enterprise of overpromising and under-delivering contained in the Octagon.
Forward of their extremely anticipated conflict, Buckley slammed Covington for pretending to be one thing he’s not.
“I met this man in person. I know the real Colby Covington, and what he is, is a character,” Buckley advised Inside Preventing. “He’s playing like a whole fictional person. So for me, it’s just like, I want to bring up the fact that you’re fake and that you’re soft, and that the person you’re portraying is somebody, yet again, that does not exist. But we all know the real you.”
Joaquin Buckley might prolong his unbeaten streak to 6 with a win over ‘chaos’
Buckley rides into UFC Tampa on a five-fight win streak, his most up-to-date coming by way of a third-round knockout of Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson in October. ‘New Mansa’ has additionally scored wins over Andre Fialho, Alex Morono, Vicente Luque, and Nursulton Ruziboev.
General, Buckley is 10-4 contained in the Octagon with seven of his wins coming by means of KO/TKO.
