{"id":205587,"date":"2025-10-11T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205587\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:11:10","slug":"ufc-rios-valter-walker-blasts-usman-for-failed-test-breaks-down-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205587\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Rio\u2019s Valter Walker blasts Usman for failed test, breaks down in tears"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it, Walker was removed from UFC Rio\u2019s card on Thursday after his opponent, Mohammed Usman, was forced to withdraw from the event due to \u201cinjury.\u201d On Friday morning, it was revealed that Usman had failed a drug test dating back to September that showed elevated testosterone levels<\/a>. That\u2019s not exactly the \u201cinjury\u201d that was first reported.<\/p>\n

As you might have guessed, Walker was not happy to learn of Usman\u2019s failed drug test and that that was the reason the fight was scrapped. The streaking heavyweight fighter \u2014 who has captured three-straight heel hook submission finishes \u2014 was set to make his first UFC appearance on Brazilian soil. It was supposed to be a big homecoming for Walker as he tries to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, UFC light heavyweight veteran Johnny Walker.<\/p>\n

Despite his fight cancelation, \u201cFoot Hunter\u201d still weighed in on Friday to show off his heavyweight physique and to talk some trash about Usman. Afterwards, Walker broke down in tears backstage as reality set in (again) that he wouldn\u2019t be fighting this weekend in front of his home crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201dI trained a lot for this fight, and this motherf\u2014ker ran,\u201d said Walker as he successfully weighed in just for show. \u201cLook at my shape for the heavyweight division!\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out Walker\u2019s backstage breakdown below and let us know your final thoughts on this UFC Rio fight cancelation:<\/p>\n

MMAmania.com<\/a> will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC Rio fight card on fight night, starting with the ESPN+<\/a> preliminary card matchups scheduled for 4 p.m. ET, followed by the remaining main card balance on ESPN+<\/a> at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

To check out the latest and greatest UFC Rio news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive here<\/a>. For the updated and finalized \u201cOliveira vs. Gamrot\u201d fight card and ESPN+<\/a> lineup click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you missed it, Walker was removed from UFC Rio\u2019s card on Thursday after his opponent, Mohammed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,45879],"class_list":["post-205587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}