Johnny
Walker is looking to go back to the drawing board following his
loss against Volkan
Oezdemir.
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The light heavyweight clash between Walker and Oezdemir began the
main card action at
UFC on ABC 6 on Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Swiss
veteran brutally knocked out Walker, rendering him unconscious with
one last follow-up shot at the 2:28 mark of Round 1.
Walker has now opened up on his loss while also confirming that he
didn’t sustain any lasting injuries. The Brazilian felt that his
head was just not in the right place despite having done everything
perfectly leading up to the fight. Walker now plans on rewatching
the fight to figure out what went wrong.
“I’m good. Just a little scratch on my lips… I just arrived at home
with my little champ. It wasn’t really good night for me,” Walker
said in a video on Instagram. “I don’t know what happened. I’m
gonna have to figure out, watch the fight again and see what I did.
I don’t think I feel my head in the right place for the fight. I
was feeling amazing, really good camp in training, really strong.
Everything was good. The [weight] cut was little bit hard, but as
always. I just didn’t find myself there in the fight. But the most
important thing is here, my little baby. I come back safe for him,
gonna look after him and come back stronger. I’ll take time with
family, enjoy my wife, my baby.… I’ll come back stronger.”
Walker is at a crossroads in his UFC career. He had a three-fight
winning streak snapped by a no contest against Magomedov Ankalaev
due to an illegal knee from the Russian at UFC 294 in October 2023.
They met again in a rematch at UFC Fight Night 234 on Jan. 13, when
Ankalaev defeated Walker via second-round KO.