Joaquin Buckley is calling time on his career, but not quite yet. The 32 year old welterweight posted a lengthy message on Instagram Thursday, accompanied by a video, laying out his plan to fight one more time in the UFC before walking away from the sport.

The timing caught plenty of people off guard. Buckley's announcement comes just five days after he was finished by Mike Malott in the main event of UFC Edmonton, a violent knockout loss that saw him stopped via knee in the second round at the 2:32 mark. It is not the way anyone expected the number 12 ranked welterweight in the world to be talking about his future.

Our tracker has Buckley rated at 1557 on Elo built from ten bouts, a number that reflects a fighter who has been a legitimate top 15 presence in one of the UFC's deepest divisions. That track record is exactly why the retirement talk lands as such a shock. 'New Mansa' built a reputation as one of the most highlight reel prone finishers on the roster during his UFC run, and the idea of him walking away with a single fight left on the clock is already dominating conversation among fans, with a thread on r slash MMA built entirely around his announcement.

What happens next matters just as much as the decision itself. The UFC has not named an opponent for what Buckley says will be his farewell bout, and until that fight happens, his ranking and his spot in the welterweight picture stay unresolved. For a division this stacked, losing a ranked finisher on short notice is the kind of thing that shuffles plenty of other names up the ladder behind him.