
Marvin
Vettori doesn’t want to start a feud with Joaquin
Buckley unless the latter instigates it.
Buckley has been on a mission lately, calling out the likes of
Dustin
Poirier, Josh Hokit,
Max
Holloway and other
Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes for using the N-word.
Vettori claims Buckley unnecessarily drags racism into matters that
aren’t that serious, drawing a response from “New Mansa.”
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What Marvin Vettori said about Joaquin Buckley’s sparring
challenge
Buckley responded by calling Vettori out to a no-rounds sparring
session at the UFC Performance Institute. He also recalled an
incident with Vettori at
Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. The UFC welterweight claims he was
preparing for a fight when Vettori called him to spar. When Buckley
declined, Vettori told him to stop being “soft.” They eventually
didn’t spar and Vettori jokingly called him a “b*tch” for it.
Buckley believes he should have set his boundaries with Vettori
back then.
Responding to Buckley, Vettori says he didn’t think much of their
encounter at Xtreme Couture. The former middleweight title
challenger claims he doesn’t even have a personal problem with
Buckley but will retaliate if necessary.
“Honestly I never even saw that encounter as anything,” Vettori
wrote on X. “I got it you have a fight sometimes people prepare for
ortho and I’m southpaw so it was no problem on my end. You see
anything as a reason to start some sh*t or some racial sh*t. You
the one that said that you were gonna do something if you see me
and I honestly got no problem with Buckley but I mean if you try
something when you see me I’m probably surely gonna respond
eventually.”
Honestly I never even saw that encounter as
anything, i got it you have a fight sometimes people prepare for
ortho and I’m southpaw so its was no problem on my end You see
anything as a reason to start some shit or some racial shit You the
one that said that you were gonna do something if you see me and I
honestly got no problem with buckley but I mean if you try
something when you see me I’m probably surely gonna respond
eventually— Marvin
Vettori (@MarvinVettori)
November 9, 2026