UFC welterweight Joaquin Buckley has received support from Daniel Cormier in the ongoing UFC vs. boxing debate.
Recently, Joaquin Buckley has been embroiled in a war of words with the likes of Shakur Stevenson and Terence Crawford over the quality of UFC compared to professional boxing. We all know Buckley is someone who likes to speak his mind, and he makes no secret of how he feels about his actions.
In the cage, Joaquin Buckley returns after a loss to Kamaru Usman. However, given the skills he has at his disposal, we can’t imagine it will be too long before he begins his journey to climb back up the rankings.
In a recent video, Daniel Cormier explained why he agrees with Joaquin Buckley this way.
Daniel Cormier supports Joaquin Buckley
“Shakur Stevenson said the UFC could never box – Joaquin Buckley was right,” Cormier said on his YouTube channel. “It doesn’t have to be boxing because the reality is there are no big fights like there were in the past. I want to be the boxing of the 70s, 80s and 90s. If I were to try boxing, I would want to box from that era and from that era. Boxing today is not necessarily what I would like to be, or what it used to be, because there just aren’t enough stars to make big fights.
“There aren’t enough big events to take us back to the days when (Mohammed) Ali fought or when (Mike) Tyson fought, or when you had the ‘Four Kings’ and they all fought each other. I’m even talking about the days when Lennox Lewis was the heavyweight champion. Even the Klitschko Brothers. It was different then. Those fights brought more attention and felt bigger.”
“I understand today that when Canelo fought Terence Crawford, it felt like a big event,” Cormier said. Honestly, when I get super excited about these boxing fights, until you get young, exciting prospects who want to go out there and try to knock people out like the guys of the past, you get the fight we got where Terence Crawford, who again showed why he’s the best, he just controlled Canelo Alvarezwho is the biggest star of this generation. And then it’s just not that fun. Honestly. It just wasn’t that fun.
“Whereas when you go to the UFC, it’s more fun, it’s more exciting and it’s just better – and Joaquin Buckley was right. It’s just better – and I love boxing. I have great friends in boxing. Andre Ward is a great friend of mine in boxing. I love watching him fight, but boxing today is not what boxing used to be, and hats off to Joaquin Buckley for calling that out because he should have shouting it out. We are not boxing. It’s just the God-honest truth. It is what it is.
Quotes via MMA junkie
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