This Saturday within the UFC Tampa principal occasion, Joaquin Buckley prolonged his win streak to 6 in a row after butchering the returning Colby Covington.
After nearly a yr away from motion, Colby Covington sat and bided his time, returning at what he thought was an ideal time.
With the welterweight division at present devoid of any rapid contenders exterior of Shavkat Rakhmonov, Covington believed he may put himself again into title competition with a win over Joaquin Buckley.
Colby Covington suffers a physician stoppage defeat to Joaquin Buckley
The principle occasion began off in fairly weird trend, as Covington was walked out by WWE legend, Hulk Hogan, after teasing all week that his walkout could be historic.
Issues then obtained more and more worse for the previous interim welterweight champion, as early into the combat, he was caught with a pointy uppercut which triggered a minimize beneath his eyebrow.
‘Chaos’ fought on for 2 extra rounds, unable to implement his controversial wrestling-heavy gameplan, discovering himself getting plastered across the Octagon by ‘New Mansa’s’ highly effective and quick hanging.
The minimize beneath Covington’s eye obtained more and more worse, and earlier than spherical three started, he was warned by the physician that she wasn’t going to let it go on for for much longer, telling him to guard the attention.
Close to the top of spherical three after a quick scramble on the bottom, the 36-year-old appeared to leak fairly badly from his eye, which triggered the referee to halt the motion and get the physician in to test on it.
After a quick test, the physician rendered Covington unable to proceed, handing him back-to-back losses for the primary time in his 12-year skilled profession.
Joaquin Buckley lets the followers determine his subsequent opponent in awkward promo
This marks the largest win of Buckley’s profession to date, with him now probably cracking the highest 5 of the welterweight division.
Now using a six-fight win streak, Buckley believes he’s in place for a primary contender combat, or probably hoping to skip the road straight to Belal Muhammad.
Throughout his Octagon interview, the 31-year-old gave the followers the possibility to choose his subsequent opponent, giving them three choices.
“Since everyone is leaving, that’s a rattling disgrace as a result of the followers are gonna decide my goddamn opponent subsequent,” he started to clarify.
“The followers are gonna decide my opponent, alright. So I’m gonna offer you three names, alright, the one that you just all take advantage of noise for, that’s who I’m gonna decide for my subsequent opponent.
“First title proper right here, Leon Edwards,” because the followers gave a light cheer.
“Second title, Kamaru Usman!” Buckley shouted because the cheers obtained more and more louder.
“And the final one, take the throne from Belal Muhammad, which one, let’s go?” because the cheers returned to a light notice.
“I feel it’s Kamaru Usman child, let’s go,” Buckley determined.
Kamaru Usman is at present weighing up his choices concerning a return having said he needs to return to welterweight following a combat in opposition to Khamzat Chimaev at middleweight.
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