UFC Atlanta Post-Fight Show | Reaction To Kamaru Usman's Dominant Return To the Octagon

MMA Fighting

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Kamaru Usman entered the UFC Atlanta main event against Joaquin Buckley as an underdog for just the third time in his UFC career, but delivered a vintage performance in his first fight in nearly two years. After dominating Buckley, is Usman officially a threat to regain UFC gold? Following Saturday's UFC Fight Night card, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee react to the event, Usman's lopsided win over Buckley, what we learned about both fighters, and what Usman needs to do to get to a title fight. Additionally, they discuss Rose Namajunas' win over Miranda Maverick, Malcolm Wellmaker's sensational knockout, the weirdness that happened in the Rodolfo Bellato vs. Paul Craig fight, and much more. Follow Mike Heck: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@m_heckjr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Alexander K. Lee: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@AlexanderKLee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/dYpsgH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our full video catalog: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/u8VvLi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit our playlists:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/eFhsvM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Like MMAF on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/nOATUI⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.0	Take time to think.
0:30.9	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. All right, everybody.
0:50.9	Happy, I was going to say happy Saturday night, but it ain't Saturday night anymore.
0:55.4	Happy Sunday morning to us all.
0:57.3	Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there and the victory horns.
1:02.5	You hear them, they're loud, they're proud, and they sound for the former UFC welterweight champion Kamara Usman first fight since October of
1:12.6	23 a lot of questions surrounding what he would look like and what this fight with
1:17.8	Joachim Buckley would look like and in the end we got a lopsided win for Kamara Usman
1:25.3	dominates Joaquin buckley for the first 20 minutes of this fight.
1:29.4	Buckley shows a little bit of life in round five was able to defend some takedowns but in the end
1:34.9	Kamara Usman gets it done. M.A. Fighting's official scorecard was 49 to 46. Two judges agreed.
1:41.3	And some judge decided to give Joachim Buckley two rounds. And I just don't know what
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