{"id":916178,"date":"2026-10-01T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916178\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:00:09","slug":"walter-walker-predicts-johnny-walker-will-win-265-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916178\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Walker predicts Johnny Walker will win 265 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnny Walker’s brother believes the Brazilian fighter can defeat any contender in the division and win the UFC heavyweight title.<\/p>\n

Johnny Walker<\/a> is set to make his UFC<\/a> heavyweight debut this Saturday when he takes on Mick Parkin<\/a> at UFC 332<\/a> in Salt Lake City. Although this will be the Brazilian’s first UFC fight at heavyweight, his brother Valter Walker already sees a championship future for him in the division. Walker believes his brother can beat anyone at heavyweight and expects him to become UFC champion next year.<\/p>\n

Valter Walker Backs Johnny Walker at Heavyweight<\/p>\n

Johnny Walker enters the matchup with a 22-10 professional record and one no contest, moving up after spending most of his UFC career at light heavyweight. The Brazilian has struggled to find consistency recently, going 1-3 in his last four fights. In his last appearance, Walker suffered a unanimous decision loss to Dominick Reyes in April.<\/p>\n

However, Valter Walker has high expectations for his brother in the heavyweight division. Speaking to Laerte Vianna na \u00c1rea – MMA, he said his brother’s style can match up with anyone in the division and even claimed he would defeat Alex Pereira<\/a> if they were ever to meet inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n

“Johnny Walker matches up with any style at heavyweight,” Valter Walker said. “If they give him Poatan tomorrow, Johnny wins. He’ll be heavyweight champion next year.”<\/p>\n

Johnny Walker was originally scheduled to make his heavyweight debut against Ante Delija at UFC Belgrade in August, but the Croatian fighter withdrew from the bout due to an injury.<\/p>\n

Walker is now expected to meet Parkin at UFC 332 on Saturday at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Parkin enters the bout with a 10-1 professional record, while the Brazilian will look to make a successful transition to the heavyweight division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Walker’s brother believes the Brazilian fighter can defeat any contender in the division and win the UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,1855,51932,17574,315806,638,82,640,315689,25170],"class_list":["post-916178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-heavyweight","tag-johnny-walker","tag-light-heavyweight","tag-mick-parkin","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-332-silva-vs-wang","tag-valter-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}