UFC welterweight Joaquin Buckley has acquired backing from Daniel Cormier within the ongoing UFC vs boxing debate.
Not too long ago, Joaquin Buckley has gotten right into a confrontation with the likes of Shakur Stevenson and Terence Crawford over the standard of UFC compared to skilled boxing. Everyone knows that Buckley is somebody who likes to voice his opinions, and he’s made no secret of how he feels relating to his method.
Within the cage, Joaquin Buckley is coming off the again of a loss to Kamaru Usman. Nevertheless, given the talents he has at his disposal, we will’t think about will probably be too lengthy earlier than he begins his journey to getting again up the rankings.
In a current video, Daniel Cormier defined why he agrees with Joaquin Buckley on this fashion.
Daniel Cormier backs Joaquin Buckley
“Shakur Stevenson mentioned the UFC might by no means be boxing – Joaquin Buckley was proper,” Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “It doesn’t must be boxing, as a result of the fact is there’s no massive fights like there have been previously. I wish to be the boxing of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. If I used to be attempting to be boxing, I might wish to be boxing of that period and of that point. Boxing at present isn’t essentially what I might wish to be, and what it was once, as a result of there simply aren’t sufficient stars to make massive fights.
“There aren’t sufficient massive occasions to make us return to the times when (Muhammad) Ali was combating or when (Mike) Tyson was combating, or if you had the ‘4 Kings’ they usually had been all combating one another. I’m speaking even the times of Lennox Lewis being the heavyweight champion. Even the Klitschko Brothers. It was totally different again then. These fights introduced extra consideration, they usually felt larger.”
“I perceive at present that when Canelo fought Terence Crawford, it felt like a giant occasion,” Cormier mentioned. Actually, once I get tremendous excited for these boxing fights, till you get younger, thrilling prospects that wish to go on the market and attempt to knock individuals out like the blokes from the previous, you’re gonna get the struggle that we obtained the place Terence Crawford, who confirmed as soon as once more why he’s one of the best, he simply managed Canelo Alvarez, who’s the most important star of this technology. After which, it’s simply not that enjoyable. Actually. It simply wasn’t that enjoyable.
“Whereas if you get to the UFC, it’s extra enjoyable, it’s extra thrilling, and it’s simply higher – and Joaquin Buckley was proper. It’s simply higher – and I like boxing. I’ve obtained nice mates in boxing. Andre Ward is a good buddy of mine in boxing. I like watching him struggle, however boxing at present simply isn’t what boxing was earlier than, and hat’s off to Joaquin Buckley for calling that sh*t out, as a result of he ought to have known as it out. We aren’t boxing. The UFC is healthier. It’s simply the God-honest reality. It’s what it’s.”
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