“We’re like top 1%,” Joaquin Buckley compares his fight mentality to Leon Edwards, seeks INSPIRATION from the UFC champion

Joaquin Buckley knows that when performing on the world’s biggest MMA platform, you got to have a fighter’s mentality and he fully believes. Buckley is a knockout artist fighting in the middleweight division of the UFC and fighting this weekend at UFC Paris against Nassourdine Imavov in what will be UFC’s first-ever fight card in the country of France, ever since the MMA competition got legalised in the European nation.

Buckley’s record stands at 15 wins, 4 losses with 11 wins via knockouts. His opponent Imavov is a product of the MMA Factory in France, led by head coach Fernand Lopez, the head coach of former interim-UFC heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane. Lopez was also the first MMA coach of UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou. Gane will be fighting in the main event of UFC Paris against Tai Tuivasa. Who do you think wins between Gane and Tuivasa?

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Joaquin Buckley says a fight can be won even if you got one second left as long as you continue to fight

In one of the interviews on his Youtube channel, Joaquin Buckley talks about getting the layoff since his last loss, being on a 3-fight win skid now, how he’s been treated in Paris as compared to his next opponent Nassourdine Imavov and much more. In the midst of all, Buckley was asked what gives him the advantage over Imavov and that’s where Buckley talks about his mentality by comparing himself to UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards.

“I don’t think a lot of fighters have a belief like I do,” says Buckley “It’s like a 1%, you know what I mean, shout out to Leon Edwards, like non-stop and always fighting till you get your opportunity. I feel like you always got a chance in the fight, even if you lose you always got a chance, you know what I mean, if it’s one second left in the fight, you can always win, as long as you continue to fight…” continued Buckley.

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What do you make of Joaquin Buckley’s comparison with Leon Edwards regarding fight mentality? Do you think Buckley can become a UFC champion within the next few years in the UFC middleweight division? Who do you think wins between Buckley and Imavov? Sure Edwards’ story has set up an example of mental toughness, a kid from Jamaica fighting the grips of poverty, getting his father handed death after moving to the UK, and then getting out of the grips of the street crime, Edwards not only came a long way but a brutally harsh way to be who he is today.

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