Joaquin Buckley is doing his best to keep his full focus on Stephen Thompson at UFC 307 , but some old beefs keep pulling him in different directions. Perhaps the most interesting encounter was finally sitting down and hashing out his differences with UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier after they engaged in a fiery war of words earlier this year. The incident stemmed from Cormier criticizing Buckley’s decision to call out Conor McGregor following a win, which led to an ugly exchange on social media.
Buckley later said he hoped to meet up with Cormier prior to his fight at UFC 307 to settle their differences. “I just got done talking to D.C.
” Buckley revealed during UFC 307 media day. “That was cool. We was in front of the camera, I thought we was just going to be in the room by ourselves for a bit just to be able to talk like men.
“But it is what it is, we had a good conversation. A good interview. People will be able to see it.
That’s what I thought it was going to be, off camera and just man to man, I think that’s the conversation I would rather have, I’d be more comfortable with if anything.” Today I sit down with Joaquim Buckley as you know he and I had some issues about a call out few months ago. Today we sat down and discussed that and so much more.
We also talked his fight this weekend vs Wonderboy! But as men we needed to talk and I believe we did that. Make..
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com/G1Sras9nkx Buckley also responded to former opponent Kevin Holland , who sai.