{"id":614850,"date":"2026-04-18T10:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614850\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:26:28","slug":"video-joaquin-buckley-trains-with-kamaru-usman-before-ufc-328-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614850\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Joaquin Buckley trains with Kamaru Usman before UFC 328 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joaquin Buckley is pulling out all the stops to make sure he gets back on track at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-328-chimaev-vs-strickland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 328;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC 328&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC 328<\/a>, including training with the only man to beat him in the welterweight division.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to his May 9 matchup with Sean Brady (18-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. (Paramount+), former 170-pound champion <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/kamaru-usman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kamaru Usman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kamaru Usman&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kamaru Usman<\/a> welcomed Buckley (22-7 MMA, 11-5 UFC) into the Kill Cliff FC facility in South Florida to get some work in together.<\/p>\n<p>Usman shared footage of the training on social media, and also praised Buckley for his willingness to put ego aside for the sake of improving his skillset (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXPAfSTAF2j\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joaquin Buckley is pulling out all the stops to make sure he gets back on track at UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,142455,61175,785,52587,64238,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-614850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-joaquin-buckley","12":"tag-kamaru-usman","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-prudential-center","15":"tag-sean-brady","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}