Buckley Plans To Retire After One Final Fight

Joaquin Buckley says he will retire after one more fight, following his second-round knockout loss to Mike Malott.

It was Buckley’s third straight loss, after defeats to Kamaru Usman and Sean Brady. The 32-year-old said the knockout hit his family hard, especially his grandmother, who urged him on the phone to retire.

“Listening to my grandmother speak and listening to her pray for me over the phone, and really being upset, and her telling me to retire and really kind of get away from fighting and get away from the sport because your mind is your biggest tool and your biggest asset, and you don’t want to lose it,” Buckley.

After sleeping on it and praying, he agreed: “It took a lot for me to listen and digest it, but I took some time, I slept on it, and I prayed about it, and I realized that my grandmother is right,” Buckley