How AgentMMA breaks down Joaquin Buckley vs Mike Malott
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Rogers Place will be loud when Mike Malott walks out for the main event in Edmonton. He has won four straight, and now Joaquin Buckley arrives with two straight decision losses and the kind of sudden power that can make a home crowd hold its breath. That is a lot of pressure on both men before the first punch lands. Malott stopped Charles Radtke with a punch at distance, went the distance with Kevin Holland, then finished Gilbert Burns with punches on the ground. Buckley has had a rougher stretch against Sean Brady and Kamaru Usman, but remember the punch that stopped Stephen Thompson.
- Malott brings four straight wins into the Edmonton main event
- Buckley needs to halt consecutive losses against ranked opponents
- Southpaw reach meets a finisher dangerous at distance and on the ground
The middle rounds could open things up once both men have read the distance and start taking bigger risks to land clean.
His win over Colby Covington ended when a doctor stopped the fight because of a cut above Covington’s eye. Recent results tell two different stories, though Buckley has shown why nobody can treat him as a routine opponent. Here is the tricky part for Malott. Buckley fights from a southpaw stance and has the longer reach, so walking straight into range could give him the exchange he wants. Malott fights orthodox and has shown he can hurt someone at distance or keep working when a fight reaches the mat.
Buckley needs room to change angles and let his shots go, while Malott needs to choose his entries without getting stuck in front of him. One man wants to keep a Canadian crowd roaring; the other wants to end a painful skid. How they handle that noise could matter as much as the first clean shot.
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Rogers Place will be loud when Mike Malott walks out for the main event in Edmonton. He has won four straight, and now Joaquin Buckley arrives with two straight decision losses and the kind of sudden power that can make a home crowd hold its breath. That is a lot of pressure on both men before the first punch lands. Malott stopped Charles Radtke with a punch at distance, went the distance with Kevin Holland, then finished Gilbert Burns with punches on the ground. Buckley has had a rougher stretch against Sean Brady and Kamaru Usman, but remember the punch that stopped Stephen Thompson.
- Malott brings four straight wins into the Edmonton main event
- Buckley needs to halt consecutive losses against ranked opponents
- Southpaw reach meets a finisher dangerous at distance and on the ground
The middle rounds could open things up once both men have read the distance and start taking bigger risks to land clean.
His win over Colby Covington ended when a doctor stopped the fight because of a cut above Covington’s eye. Recent results tell two different stories, though Buckley has shown why nobody can treat him as a routine opponent. Here is the tricky part for Malott. Buckley fights from a southpaw stance and has the longer reach, so walking straight into range could give him the exchange he wants. Malott fights orthodox and has shown he can hurt someone at distance or keep working when a fight reaches the mat.
Buckley needs room to change angles and let his shots go, while Malott needs to choose his entries without getting stuck in front of him. One man wants to keep a Canadian crowd roaring; the other wants to end a painful skid. How they handle that noise could matter as much as the first clean shot.
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