Joaquin Buckley couldn’t believe what he saw after watching his fight with Mike Malott.
Buckley battled Malott in the main event of UFC Edmonton on Saturday, and after a competitive first round, Malott ending up delivering a brutal knockout in the second to earn his fifth straight win, while Buckley suffered his third straight loss. The finishing blow ended with Malott throwing a kick, but ended up landing a vicious knee to the face of Buckley that send his oppponent face-first to the mat.
Following the bout, Buckley jumped on his new Kick channel to watch the knockout back. Watch the clip below.
🚨Joaquin Buckley Had the energy to go home film reaction about himself getting knocked out 😭😭
— FightLuck (@FightluckBet) October 18, 2026
🗣️“That’s gotta be AI. He put me out like that? That motherf*cker slept my ass.” 🫢😳 pic.twitter.com/MStkqg8Yrz
“I ain’t ever been out like that, bro,” Buckley said. “Yeah. that shit sucked. …
“I’ve been knocked out before. I used to always say, ‘But I ain’t ever been slept though.’ That motherf*cker slept my ass.”
Heading into the bout, Buckley was coming off of back-to-back lopsided decision losses to former champion Kamaru Usman, and fellow contender Sean Brady. It was the first stoppage loss for Buckley in nearly four years — a second-round TKO loss against Chris Curtis at UFC 282 in December 2022.