Joaquin Buckley will return to his original weight class. Buckley (15-6 MMA, 5-4 UFC) will drop back down to 170 pounds to take on Andre Fialho (16-6 MMA, 2-3 UFC) on May 20 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, promotion officials announced Tuesday. Buckley announced that he plans on dropping to welterweight after losing to Chris Curtis at UFC 282 this past December, his second consecutive defeat. Prior to that, “New Mansa” scored three straight wins, two by knockout. Fialho will look to snap a two-fight losing skid. After scoring back-to-back Performance of the Night first-round knockouts of Miguel Baeza and Cameron VanCamp, the Kill Cliff FC fighter was stopped by Jake Matthews and most recently Muslim Salikhov this past November
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Joaquin Buckley returns to welterweight, meets Andre Fialho at UFC event on May 20 – MMA Junkie