Johnny
Walker says it is best to train with a variety of sparring
partners. 

Walker is scheduled to fight Dominick
Reyes at UFC 327
on April 11 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. Walker trains
at
Xtreme Couture, which is also home to Francis
Ngannou. Walker recently revealed that he ate a clean uppercut
from the former UFC heavyweight champ just last week. 

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Walker explains that one has to mix up powerful and technical
sparring partners depending on what stage of training camp they are
at. The Brazilian says that it is OK to get hit hard early in camp,
as there is ample time to recover. However, with less than two
weeks left for his upcoming fight, Walker now plans to spar against
technical and easy partners.

Finding the Right Mix

“I got a clean uppercut [from Ngannou] last week, and f—k, heavy
handed, bro, crazy… It’s better to mix [powerful and technical
sparring partners],” Walker told Full Mount MMA. “It depends where
you are in the camp. In the beginning of the camp you can get hurt,
there’s no problem, you have time to heal. In the end of the camp,
like right now, I have two weeks and a half. Now I have to be very
careful and train with guys more technical and easy because all
hard work is done.”

Walker (22-9) is coming off an upset technical knockout win over
Mingyang
Zhang that saw him rebound from consecutive losses against
Magomed
Ankalaev and Volkan
Oezdemir. Meanwhile, Reyes (15-5) is coming off a knockout loss
against Carlos
Ulberg that snapped a three-fight finishing
streak.  

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