Joaquin Buckley doesn’t admire Chael Sonnen making an attempt to downplay his win over Colby Covington in December.
Closing out the UFC’s yr in sunny Tampa, Florida, ‘New Mansa’ delivered a dominant efficiency towards the previous three-time title challenger, incomes a health care provider’s stoppage TKO within the third spherical of their welterweight headliner.
Sonnen, who was in Covington’s nook that new, in the end threw within the towel after Covington sustained a nasty minimize over his proper eyelid. However regardless of watching his fighter get bloodied and battered for almost three full rounds, ‘The American Gangster’ did his greatest to console Covington backstage.
In a video clip, which you’ll be able to see under, Sonnen went via a listing of issues ‘Chaos’ did nicely and instructed that the outspoken Trump supporter was starting to “turn the tide” earlier than the stoppage got here.
Evidently, Buckley didn’t admire Sonnen making an attempt to discredit the largest win of his profession.
“It’s big Cap from Chael, you know,” Buckley stated of Sonnen’s post-fight feedback throughout an interview with Parry Punch. “Sometimes you gonna say whatever you got to say in order to, you know, protect Colby. But, you know, people saw it. You know what I mean? People—people saw the fight. They can already see that I was not slowing down. I was actually picking up the pace.”
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