Joaquin Buckley’s unfathomable KO win over at UFC Fight Island 5 | Famous News

Joaquin Buckley’s unfathomable KO win over at UFC Fight Island 5 | Famous News
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At this point, anyone with even a passing interest in the UFC has probably seen Joaquin Buckley’s nigh-unfathomable KO win over Impa Kasanganay at UFC Fight Island 5: Sandhagen vs. Moraes.

A simple caught kick to the body, the sort of exchange fans have seen time and time again, turned into something infinitely more glorious. A monument to MMA’s evolution and the excitement that this sport can bring in even its most unexpected moments. Go back to the 90s, or even the mid-aughts and that kind of acrobatic move lived purely in fiction. Now here it is, full speed—live and unscripted.

This is the kind of moment that the UFC spends hundreds of hours a year looking to produce. Something that, having seen it, fans will associate not just with Buckley’s fighting prowess, but with those three letters stamped on his trunks, on his gloves, on the canvas, and on the live feed screen. It will likely play on every sports highlight show for the next week, and (if there’s any justice in the world) pop up regularly in the months to come. It’ll find its home in UFC marketing material, along with highlight packages for Fight Pass and ESPN+. Not to mention, of course, providing truth to Dana White’s old adage that it’s the cards fans aren’t excited for that provide the best action.

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