Joaquin Buckley

“New Mansa”

Welterweight

United States#12 Welterweight3-fight losing streak

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21WINS

9LOSSES

0DRAWS

15KO/TKO

0SUB

6DEC

Pro MMA recordSource: UFC.com athlete profile (official)Checked 2026-10-22

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Tale of the tape

Age: 32 · born Apr 27, 1994 UFC.com
Height: 5′10″ 178 cm UFC.com
Reach: 76″ 193 cm UFC.com
Leg reach: 40″ 102 cm UFC.com
Stance: Southpaw UFCStats
Weight class: Welterweight UFC.com
UFC ranking: #12 Welterweight UFC.com
Fighting style: Freestyle UFC.com
Team / gym: STL Boxing UFC.com
Born: United States UFC.com
Fights out of / flag: United States UFC.com
UFC debut: Aug. 8, 2020 UFC.com
1st-round finishes: 4 UFC.com

UFC.com: UFC.com athlete profile (official) · checked 2026-10-22 · UFCStats: UFCStats.com fighter page (data via the public ufcstats.com mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18)

UFC career stats

36%Striking accuracy737 of 2041 landed

17%Takedown accuracy7⚑ of 42 landed

3.55Sig. strikes landedper min

3.16Sig. strikes absorbedper min

58%Striking defense

1.37Takedownsper 15 min

70%Takedown defense

0.07Submission attemptsper 15 min

0.65Knockdownsper 15 min

11:31Average fight time

Sig. strikes by position

Standing554 75%

Clinch46 6%

Ground137 19%

Sig. strikes by target

Head455 62%

Body206 28%

Leg76 10%

⚑ = UFC.com and UFCStats disagree on this number. We show the official UFC.com figure and have flagged it for review.

Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22

UFC fight history 18 bouts

Res	Opponent	Method	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Mike Malott	KO/TKO	2	2:32	UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott	Oct 17, 2026	↗
L	Sean Brady	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland	May 9, 2026	↗
L	Kamaru Usman	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Usman vs. Buckley	Jun 14, 2025	↗
W	Colby Covington	TKO - Doctor's Stoppage	3	4:42	UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley	Dec 14, 2024	↗
W	Stephen Thompson	KO/TKO	3	2:17	UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.	Oct 5, 2024	↗
W	Nursulton Ruziboev	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento	May 11, 2024	↗
W	Vicente Luque	KO/TKO	2	3:17	UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot	Mar 30, 2024	↗
W	Alex Morono	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green	Oct 7, 2023	↗
W	Andre Fialho	KO/TKO	2	4:15	UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill	May 20, 2023	↗
L	Chris Curtis	KO/TKO	2	2:49	UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev	Dec 10, 2022	↗
L	Nassourdine Imavov	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa	Sep 3, 2022	↗
W	Albert Duraev	TKO - Doctor's Stoppage	2	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Emmett	Jun 18, 2022	↗
W	Abdul Razak Alhassan	Decision - Split	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill	Feb 19, 2022	↗
W	Antonio Arroyo	KO/TKO	3	2:26	UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann	Sep 18, 2021	↗
L	Alessio Di Chirico	KO/TKO	1	2:12	UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar	Jan 16, 2021	↗
W	Jordan Wright	KO/TKO	2	0:18	UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez	Nov 21, 2020	↗
W	Impa Kasanganay	KO/TKO	2	2:03	UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen	Oct 10, 2020	↗
L	Kevin Holland	KO/TKO	3	0:32	UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik	Aug 8, 2020	↗

UFC bouts only. Source: UFCStats.com bout pages (via the public mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18) · checked 2026-10-22. Bouts outside the UFC aren’t listed because we only republish history we can trace to an official source.