Media Kudos to Buckley. No excuses. Says he'll come back better.

Good on Buckley. He is fine in the standup, but man his grappling specifically his tdd needs a ton of work. If I was advising I’d te him to go to wrestling training and drill tdd every day for a few hours for weeks on end. And bring ufc level training partners in to help who are plus grapplers.
 
RoyJonesJr said:
I like when guys don't make excuses, but there's also being too complacent

He showed no sense of urgency until the 5th, was basically asleep the first 4.
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Like Prates against Garry, maybe it's part of the learning process.
 
It's his whole grappling game, not just TDD. His ability to get back to his feet, scramble, etc. I said in another comment he looks like a late 1990s striker with sub-mediocre TDD who knows just enough off his back not to get caught in an easy sub or fully eat a bunch of GnP. He'll continue to get taken down and held against the cage by the better grapplers (Shavkat, Garry, Brady, Belal, Islam) unless he learns.

He's also 31 and with 28 fights under his belt. It's pretty rare for fighters to make massive improvements at that age, but I guess it's possible. Usually they're stuck in their ways. For example. the Diaz bros never learning good TDD/wrestling or how to defend against leg kicks.
 
mkt said:
It's his whole grappling game, not just TDD. His ability to get back to his feet, scramble, etc. I said in another comment he looks like a late 1990s striker with sub-mediocre TDD who knows just enough off his back not to get caught in an easy sub or fully eat a bunch of GnP. He'll continue to get taken down and held against the cage by the better grapplers (Shavkat, Garry, Brady, Belal, Islam) unless he learns.

He's also 31 and with 28 fights under his belt. It's pretty rare for fighters to make massive improvements at that age, but I guess it's possible. Usually they're stuck in their ways. For example. the Diaz bros never learning good TDD/wrestling or how to defend against leg kicks.
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Evidently he burned his bridges at different gyms so good training might be harder to find than it sounds. I don't really know if that is true but it would be interesting if that actually became a problem.
 
i'm not sure why his tdd sucked so much. tdd is a standard these days.

all usman did was lnp this fight. buckley figured out the tdd in the 5th. he scorches usman in a rematch. sadly for him a lot of people will duck him above him as he is a threat.

but the man ducks no one so i expect buckely to fight again in 3 months. he is hungry. and hopefully he takes this loss like gsp took his first loss against hughes
 
He stepped way up calling Usman out, and it showed. He got big brothered for 4 rounds, until Marty tired out.

Good attitude though, hopefully he works on the big hole in his game and comes back more complete.

He's definitely a problem in the striking department.
 
It makes me mad because he let Usman pull his same old bullshit (win in the most boring way possible, without threatening any kind of finish); at 38 fucking years old. Fucks his momentum up too, he had a great thing going at 170 before this.
 
ArtardFiesta said:
i'm not sure why his tdd sucked so much. tdd is a standard these days.

all usman did was lnp this fight. buckley figured out the tdd in the 5th. he scorches usman in a rematch. sadly for him a lot of people will duck him above him as he is a threat.

but the man ducks no one so i expect buckely to fight again in 3 months. he is hungry. and hopefully he takes this loss like gsp took his first loss against hughes
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HoiceNJuicy said:
Improving his TDD is going to take A LOT of work, but he's got the right attitude. Good on him.

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Colby went toe-to-toe wrestling-wise with Usman, right?. so when Buckley's TD defense was stout against Colby, I thought it might also be strong enough for Usman (which clearly wasn't the case). so has Colby really fallen off or is Usman's wrestling so different than Colby's that whatever worked for Buckley (against Colby) wouldn't work last night?
 
palasekan said:
Colby went toe-to-toe wrestling-wise with Usman, right?. so when Buckley's TD defense was stout against Colby, I thought it might also be strong enough for Usman (which clearly wasn't the case). so has Colby really fallen off or is Usman's wrestling so different than Colby's that whatever worked for Buckley (against Colby) wouldn't work last night?
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I think it shows how much better Usman is over Coby more than anything.
 
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