MMAJunkie<\/a>, Buckley said he is preparing for this weekend\u2019s event as if he could get a pink slip from the UFC brass.<\/p>\n\u201cMy thing is just go out there and perform \u2013 that\u2019s my thing,\u201d Buckley said. \u201cI don\u2019t think about two years being set back. Anybody that loses this fight is getting cut. That\u2019s how I look at it. My job is on the line. That\u2019s how I see it. That\u2019s different. That\u2019s my mentality. People like to make the most out of all this stuff because at the end of the day your performance speaks for itself. As long as you\u2019re performing you\u2019re good. You\u2019re going to be straight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, many doubt that either contender would be released following a loss on Saturday, but perhaps stranger things have happened. Buckley was riding a six-fight winning streak before he struggled with the grappling of Usman. During his streak, \u201cNew Mansa\u201d defeated the likes of Colby Covington and Stephen Thompson.<\/p>\n
Brady had his three-fight winning streak snapped when he was stopped by Morales. He had wins over Leon Edwards, Gilbert Burns, and Kelvin Gastelum. Brady\u2019s skills have been heavily praised and many believed he was ready to challenge Islam Makhachev, but he will need to work his way back up, just as Buckley must do.<\/p>\n
Who are you leaning towards taking the win at UFC 328, Joaquin Buckley or Sean Brady? Share your prediction in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joaquin Buckley sees UFC 328 as a must-win scenario. Buckley is set to share the Octagon with Sean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-649656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649656","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=649656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}