Joaquin Buckley Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	#6Sean Brady Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland	May 9, 2026
L	#5Kamaru Usman Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Usman vs. Buckley	Jun 14, 2025
W	#6Colby Covington Welterweight	KO/TKO	Cut above eye	R3	4:42	UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley	Dec 14, 2024
W	#9Stephen Thompson Welterweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R3	2:17	UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.	Oct 5, 2024
W	Nursulton Ruziboev Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento	May 11, 2024
W	#10Vicente Luque Welterweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head From Guard	R2	3:17	UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot	Mar 30, 2024
W	Alex Morono Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green	Oct 7, 2023
W	Andre Fialho Welterweight	KO/TKO	Kick to Head At Distance	R2	4:15	UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill	May 20, 2023
L	#14Chris Curtis Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head In Clinch	R2	2:49	UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev	Dec 10, 2022
L	#12Nassourdine Imavov Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa	Sep 3, 2022
W	Albert Duraev Middleweight	KO/TKO	—	R2	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Emmett	Jun 18, 2022
W	Abdul Razak Alhassan Middleweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill	Feb 19, 2022
W	Antonio Arroyo Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R3	2:26	UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann	Sep 18, 2021
L	Alessio Di Chirico Middleweight	KO/TKO	Kick to Head At Distance	R1	2:12	UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar	Jan 16, 2021
W	Jordan Wright Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R2	0:18	UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez	Nov 21, 2020
W	Impa Kasanganay Middleweight	KO/TKO	Spinning Back Kick Head	R2	2:03	UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen	Oct 10, 2020
L	Kevin Holland Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R3	0:32	UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik	Aug 8, 2020

Outside the UFC

10-2across 12 bouts · 3 promotions · wins by 7 KO · 3 decBellator · Shamrock FC · LFA

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Jackie Gosh8-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	1:47	LFA	Jul 31, 2020
W	Chris Harris12-5	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:08	LFA	Sep 13, 2019
L	Logan Storley19-4	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Bellator	Apr 13, 2018
W	Vinicius de Jesus9-5	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	Bellator	Oct 20, 2017
W	Justin Patterson11-7	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Bellator	Mar 31, 2017
L	Jackie Gosh8-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	2:44	Bellator	Nov 10, 2016
W	Chris Heatherly9-4	KO/TKO	Knee	R2	4:14	Bellator	Jun 24, 2016
W	Kyle Kurtz11-11	KO/TKO	Knee and Punches	R1	4:34	Shamrock FC	Sep 11, 2015
W	Stacy Bacon0-3	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Shamrock FC	Jul 25, 2015
W	Kalel Robinson12-9	KO/TKO	Punches	R3	4:01	Shamrock FC	Mar 21, 2015
W	Bryant West1-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	2:28	Shamrock FC	Feb 21, 2015
W	Wesley Sullivan1-7	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	3:46	Shamrock FC	Sep 13, 2014

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) and Dana White’s Contender Series — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Amateur

1-0across 1 amateur bout · 1 promotionTBC

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	George Chandler1-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	3:00	TBC	Sep 13, 2013

Amateur (pre-professional) bouts — shown for context only and excluded from the professional record and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

15 wins, 4 losses

W15

L4

Submission

0 wins, 0 losses

W0

L0

Decision

6 wins, 4 losses

W6

L4

Finishes

UFC KOs

8

Above avg · 13%Welterweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.53

Above avg · 0.24Welterweight

UFC submissions

0

Below avg · 7%Welterweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.06

Below avg · 0.39Welterweight

KO history

Knockout power and chin durability (UFC; clean KOs only).

Joaquin Buckley

PowerChin

Knockout rate

47%

8 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

9

2.00 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

3

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

4

0.94 per 100 head

Chin gauges use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Never submittedin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

6 scorecards on file

Joaquin Buckley

Scorecard luck

Cards have leaned their way

Won 1 of 1 coin-flip decision — the kind of close calls that have tended to fall their way. Judges have given them 3 of 4 rounds they disagreed on (75%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

1–0

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

3–1

Won – Lost

75% went their way

Unanimous5 decisions · 83%

2W3L

Split1 decision · 17%

1W

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

7 rounds total

3

Won

4

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallB60th

36%723 / 1,988

Striking accuracy

58%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.52 differential

Landed3.62

Absorbed3.10

64%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-6%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head62%64th449
Body28%80th202
Leg10%46th72

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Sig. strikes by position

75%Standing

Standing75%544
Clinch6%42
Ground19%137

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Joaquin Buckley

Landed per 15

Head

B

66th

33.7

66th

Body

A

84th

15.2

84th

Leg

D

41st

5.4

41st

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

C

45th

31.9

45th

Body

C

51st

9.3

51st

Leg

B

65th

5.3

65th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	33.7	449	1,581	28%
Body	15.2	202	319	63%
Leg	5.4	72	88	82%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	31.9	425	1,227	35%
Body	9.3	124	189	66%
Leg	5.3	70	89	79%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of takedowns, submissions, and ground control.

UFC only

Joaquin Buckley

45%

Takedown accuracy

70%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-1.4 min net

On top1.6

On bottom3.0

Offense

Takedowns

B

59th

1.4

59th

TD accuracy

B

61st

45%

61st

Sub attempts

D

41st

0.1

41st

Control

D

35th

1.6 min

35th

Defense

TD defense

B

63rd

70%

63rd

Controlled

3.0 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	19 / 42
Submission attempts	1
Control time	21:53

Defense

TDs defended	40 / 57
Control absorbed	39:55

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (200min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Joaquin Buckley

17 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 200 min

159%

R3 pace · 10 bouts

Buckley builds (+17% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Buckley lifts to 159% of round-1 output by round 3 (10 bouts).

Buckley ▲ BUILDSOutput / min

Faded points are drawn from a single bout that reached that round, so they’re less reliable than the solid points averaged over many fights.

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Buckleylanded / min

Takedown attempts

Buckleyattempts / min

Control time

Buckley% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	4.2	2.9	3.1	0.30	11%	17
R2	4.8	3.7	3.1	0.22	10%	16
R3	5.9	5.2	3.5	0.05	15%	10
R4	2.2	2.2	1.2	0.00	0%	1
R5	4.0	4.0	2.0	0.00	0%	1

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Joaquin Buckley

17 resolved UFC bouts · 7 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

54/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A

83rd

55%

83rd

Win quality

A

78th

50%

78th

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

5

2

3

4

ChampionHeld the title in this weight class at the time
Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Contender-level8+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.55 win rate
Established5+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.500
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Champion	1	0-1	0%
Top-5	5	3-2	60%
Top-15	2	0-2	0%
Contender-level	1	1-0	100%
Established	1	1-0	100%
Building	3	3-0	100%
Unproven	4	3-1	75%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Sean Brady#6	Top-5	85	May 9, 2026
L	Kamaru Usman#5	Champion	92	Jun 14, 2025
W	Colby Covington#6	Top-5	85	Dec 14, 2024
W	Stephen Thompson#9	Top-5	83	Oct 5, 2024
W	Nursulton Ruziboev	Established	22	May 11, 2024
W	Vicente Luque#10	Top-5	77	Mar 30, 2024
W	Alex Morono	Contender-level	50	Oct 7, 2023
W	Andre Fialho	Unproven	12	May 20, 2023
L	Chris Curtis#14	Top-15	63	Dec 10, 2022
L	Nassourdine Imavov#12	Top-5	81	Sep 3, 2022
W	Albert Duraev	Building	15	Jun 18, 2022
W	Abdul Razak Alhassan	Building	22	Feb 19, 2022
W	Antonio Arroyo	Unproven	8	Sep 18, 2021
L	Alessio Di Chirico	Unproven	8	Jan 16, 2021
W	Jordan Wright	Unproven	8	Nov 21, 2020
W	Impa Kasanganay	Building	15	Oct 10, 2020
L	Kevin Holland	Top-15	51	Aug 8, 2020

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

Career cohorts

17 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

4-3

7 bouts

Typical camp

100–180 days

6-0

6 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

1-2

3 bouts

UFC debut

first UFC bout

0-1

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

3-2

5 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

8-3

11 bouts

First UFC bout

no precedent

0-1

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

—

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

—

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

—

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

—

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

—

Activity & layoff

Last fight, activity, and divisional context.

Time since last UFC bout

2 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Joaquin Buckley

Active

2 monthssince last bout

vs Sean Brady · May 9, 2026

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 8-4As underdog 3-2

65.9

DK avg

79.5

Median

102.1

Ceiling

16.6

Floor

47%

Boom

24%

Bust

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