Joaquin Buckley continues to ruffle feathers of individuals inside the MMA neighborhood.

Buckley (19-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC) is using on the most important excessive of his profession after transferring to 3-0 within the welterweight division with a unanimous choice victory over the streaking Nursulton Ruziboev at UFC on ESPN 56 this month. He made an formidable and polarizing callout of Conor McGregor after the struggle which bought a (largely essential) response from many.

Now Buckley has caught the eye of a universally revered member of the game in Cub Swanson (29-13 MMA, 14-9 UFC).

The place it begins

Buckley wrote on social media Friday that, in a hypothetical scenario the place he have been to tackle all-time welterweight nice Georges St-Pierre once they have been each at a major age, he would rating a knockout victory.

Swanson disagreed with that notion in a response (through X):

Higher males have tried and couldn’t do it 🤷🏽‍♂️

Buckley fires again

Swanson’s preliminary response elicited some amusement from Buckley. He informed Swanson, who’s 2-2 in his previous 4 fights however coming off a unanimous choice victory over Hakeem Dawodu at UFC on ESPN 51 in August, to give attention to his personal profession (through X):

Get yo ass on a profitable streak first Cub Speaking bout higher males 😂😂😂

“Do not disrespect the legends”

Swanson, who has traditionally confirmed himself to be amongst the classiest fighters within the sport, let Buckley know that his criticism stems from attaching himself to St-Pierre’s identify.

St-Pierre is arguably the best fighter in MMA historical past – not simply at welterweight – and Swanson made it clear Buckley’s remark rubbed him the mistaken manner (through X):

I’ll work on that homie. Go forward and hold chasing clout. Simply don’t disrespect the legends of this sport. You haven’t achieved sufficient but

“Simply my opinion”

Buckley’s interpretation of his preliminary remark about St-Pierre is clearly completely different than Swanson, and he defined that he’s simply speaking fantasy, whereas claiming Swanson is being nonsensical by taking offense to the entire thing (through X):

Disrespect nah see you by no means as soon as been on my web page and also you speaking nonsense mf fighters struggle and for me GSP is the goat however in my humble opinion Id knock GSP out at this stage of my sport 😁 simply my opinion hoe

“You simply bought right here”

Swanson delivered his ultimate message to Buckley in stating he was simply making an attempt to provide a honest opinion of Buckley’s prediction towards St-Pierre, and didn’t respect the private flip.

He gave Buckley some recommendation on methods to higher deal with his profession, and left it at that (through X):

I used to be being trustworthy after I stated higher Males have tried. You’re sipping an excessive amount of of your personal Kool-Assist. Ive been right here, you simply bought right here. Have some MF Respect lil boy

“Deal with me like a lil boy”

Naturally, Buckley wouldn’t enable Swanson to have the final phrase of the trade and insinuated he might be able to throw down the subsequent time they see one another in individual, regardless of Swanson being a featherweight who has even competed at bantamweight (through X):

Business stuffed with hoes 😂😂😂 So once you see me deal with me like a lil boy please 🙏🏿