The party responsible for the violent jumping knockout was Joaquin Buckley (19-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC), who crumpled “Wonderboy” Thompson (17-7-1 MMA, 12-7-1 UFC) with a jumping right hook that ended the fight at 2:17 of Round 3. The welterweight bout closed out the UFC 307 preliminary card at Delta Center in Salt Lake City.

A welterweight bout between Stephen Thompson and Joaquin Buckley served as the featured prelim of tonight's UFC 307 event.

It was a stunning finish after Buckley had struggled on the feet against the crafty Thompson, but it only took one big shot to change everything. The end came at 2:17 in the third round and following his latest win,

Joaquin Buckley earned his biggest win to date at UFC 307 as he stopped Stephen Thompson in dramatic fashion in the third round.

“You go back and watch, I think it was a fight ago, he fought the big (Uzbek) dude, he took him down,” Thompson told MMA Junkie and other reporters at Wednesday’s UFC 307 media day. “He won by takedown. So I prepared for that. I knew that was going to happen.

In the featured prelim of UFC 307, we saw a fun matchup in the welterweight division. Former title challenger and ninth ranked Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson

Joaquin Buckley says he got to sit down with Daniel Cormier ahead of UFC 307, although it wasn’t the conversation he hoped for, and he also addresses his plans to send Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson to