Joaquin Buckley dares Holloway and Volkov to say the N-word in an all-black club's DJ booth
Buckley says that if they do it, "I'll shut the f*ck up". Volkov asked "why should I go to an all-black club?" while Strickland wrote: "What's a black Karen?"
Joaquin Buckley has added Max Holloway and Alexander Volkov to the fighters he is calling out over the N-word, and says he will drop the subject if any of them will say it from the DJ booth of an all-black club.
The UFC welterweight started with Josh Hokit and Dustin Poirier, then confronted Sean Strickland in person over the racial slur, according to Sherdog. Sherdog said Volkov recently made a video saying the word with his teammates.
"Hokit, Sean Strickland, Max Holloway, Dustin Poirier, Alexander Volkov, all of them boys having a field day, having fun with this word," Buckley said on Instagram, as quoted by Sherdog.
He said he would not "bring up the race card no more if they're able to go to an all-black club, get in the DJ booth with no security, and shout out" the slur. "I'll shut the f*ck up. If enough black people don't give a f*ck no more, I won't give a f*ck," Buckley said.
Strickland answered in the comments, betting that Buckley would not go to the club and say it himself. "I bet you won't go to the IRS and show them your tax returns... What's a black Karen? This man has channeled it," Strickland wrote.
Volkov questioned the dare. "No judgment, with all respect for all nations. But why should I go to an all-black club?" he wrote. "Can anyone explain... Is it more fun there?"
Buckley (21-9) was knocked out by Mike Malott in the UFC Edmonton main event and has said his next fight will be his last. He has also hit back at Andrei Arlovski over Arlovski's "he's dead" remark about the late Anthony "Rumble" Johnson.
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