Johnny Walker wants to be two-division UFC champion: ‘That’s my dream’

RIO DE JANEIRO – Johnny Walker has excessive ambitions.

The sunshine heavyweight contender hopes to someday do what only a few have been in a position to do within the UFC, which isn’t simply win one title, however two, and in two totally 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 nicely, and this man did it,” Walker instructed reporters on the UFC 283 post-fight press convention. “I wish to be on his degree someday. I wish to be a great wrestler, enhance all of my expertise, 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, massive motivation, and I wish to do what he did.”

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’s on a two-fight wining streak, thinks his stoppage of Craig was one of the best 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 totally different as a result of video games don’t match one another’s video games. However I believe 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 reveals I’m getting higher, and my evolution retains happening. Each combat, I get a greater fighter.”

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