Johnny Walker needs to be two-division UFC champion: ‘That’s my dream’
RIO DE JANEIRO – Johnny Walker has excessive ambitions.
The sunshine heavyweight contender hopes to sooner or later do what only a few have been capable of do within the UFC, which isn’t simply win one title, however two, and in two completely different divisions.
Walker (20-7 MMA, 6-4 UFC) is starting to choose up momentum in his profession and he makes use of retired former simultaneous heavyweight and lightweight heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier as a supply of inspiration.
“He’s champ-champ – two belts. Come on. That’s my dream, as properly, and this man did it,” Walker instructed reporters on the UFC 283 post-fight press convention. “I wish to be on his stage sooner or later. I wish to be wrestler, enhance all of my abilities, as a result of I wish to be there. I wish to be able to do what he did.
“I do know it’s an enormous factor to do. He’s a particular fighter and a motivation not only for me, however everybody else. He’s an enormous, large motivation, and I wish to do what he did.”
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Walker put away Paul Craig (16-6-1 MMA, 8-6-1 UFC) in his return to the cage Saturday in Brazil. He finished the Scottish fighter in the first round with a TKO.
Walker, who now could be on a two-fight wining streak, thinks his stoppage of Craig was the most effective win of his UFC profession.
“This man simply completed Jamahal Hill, (Magomed) Ankalaev, and I simply completed him,” Walker mentioned. “I do know MMA is completely different as a result of video games don’t match one another’s video games. However I feel this implies one thing.
“I completed a man within the prime 10 within the first spherical, and this man already fought three rounds with Ankalaev and completed Hill within the first hound, after which I completed him. It exhibits I’m getting higher, and my evolution retains occurring. Each struggle, I get a greater fighter.”
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