The MMA fighters Joaquin Buckley and Daniel Cormier have been in the crosshairs after exchanging words online.
The altercation began after Buckley called out McGregor following his win over Nursulton Ruziboev. Many, like Daniel Cormier and Ben Askren, saw the call-out as a waste of time who went to his podcast to express their opinions. Buckley was pretty upset by this and made some negative comments against DC. Since then, there has been radio silence on their beef, and Buckley seems ready to bury the hatchet, but Cormier and Ben Askren still had some things to say.
Why are fighters so sensitive? It’s bad. I mean, it is bad,” Cormier said Wednesday on his YouTube channel alongside Ben Askren. “Like, bro, you know that Joaquin Buckley has still been trying to fight me and pick on me? Bro, why? Why? Why?”
“So Joaquin, if you listen to this, don’t be mad at me too just because I’m friends with Daniel, but I agree with Daniel,” Askren said. “And I like Joaquin Buckley. I think he’s a good dude trains with Nick Simmons. I agree with [Cormier].
“No, I agreed, I agreed with you. And this is where, again, don’t take yourself too seriously — you’re not going to hit 100 per cent of the time, right? Daniel Cormier, maybe he’ll have a good drive once in a while, but he shanks some of them into the woods when he golfs.
“That’s what Joaquin Buckley did in that post-fight, he shanked it into the woods. Calling out McGregor? It was just ridiculous. Maybe if you’re going to do something like that, make one line about him. But don’t make the whole thing about him, right? Say one line just to get his name in there, and then go off on somebody else — it would’ve been much better.”
Buckley’s comment struck a chord with Cormier, who recently lost his mom. However, he seems ready to hear what Buckley has to say and is pretty unbothered.
“Oh my gosh. You have no idea how bad he is, how mad Joaquin Buckley’s going to be,” Cormier said with a laugh after Askren’s rant.
“Well, he needs to stop,” Askren said. “He needs to stop. You gave him good advice.”
“Joaquin Buckley’s going to see me in Salt Lake City,” Cormier said. “He said he looks forward to running into me. He says he’s been praying to run into me.”
“That’s where, you have a large personality, a large following,” Askren said. “So a lot of these fighters, they’re almost constantly thinking — I think clout chasing is overused, but maybe that’s a little bit like [what this is]. They wonder, ‘What type of interactions can I get to make people care?’”
Despite contrary opinions, the fighters seem indifferent about their altercation. Cormier believes the whole beef may have been a way for Buckley to generate publicity for himself.
However, Buckley seems pretty intent on speaking to the fighter face-to-face and ending their ‘beef’. It is still unsure how this meet-up may go, but one thing fans are sure about is possibly seeing a fight in the octagon between these two.
