The UFC’s mild heavyweight division is getting some new blood on Saturday night time.
After placing collectively a 6-0 run on the regional scene, together with 5 first-round finishes and a 100% end price, New Haven, Connecticut native Julius Walker is about to make his UFC debut when the promotion heads again to Seattle for a loaded Battle Evening card inside Local weather Pledge Area.
Talking with Calf Kick Sports activities forward of his promotional premiere in ‘Emerald City,’ Walker revealed that he was really getting ready for a heavyweight battle earlier than getting the decision to drop all the way down to 205 for a conflict with knockout artist Alonzo Menifield.
“Jason messaged me and was like, ‘Hey, can you make 205 next weekend?’ Knowing that I already had a fight scheduled and him saying that, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s the UFC.’ So I immediately responded and said, ‘Yep, I sure can. I’ll find a way. I don’t care.’“You know, I was supposed to be fighting at heavyweight, so I had actually been kind of trying to maintain a little bit—I was trying to stay around 235 for my heavyweight fight,” Walker revealed
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The UFC’s return to Seattle might be headlined by a high-stakes bantamweight conflict between top-10-ranked contenders Henry Cejudo and Track Yadong.
Triple C’ might be in search of his first win contained in the Octagon since Could 2020. Cejudo walked away from the game for 3 years earlier than returning at UFC 288 and arising brief in opposition to then-bantamweight titleholder Aljamain Sterling. He adopted that up with one other choice loss, this time in opposition to eventual 135-pound champ Merab Dvalishvili.
For Track Yadong, a win over Cejudo would undoubtedly be the largest victory of his MMA profession to date and get him again into the win column after falling to Petr Yan at UFC 299.
Within the co-main occasion is an enormous middleweight matchup as Brendan ‘All In’ Allen squares off with fan favourite Aaron ‘Fluffy’ Hernandez.
