Johnny Walker believes being powerful within the combat recreation isn’t sufficient.
On June 7, Walker will return to the Octagon for a conflict with Azamat Murzakanov at UFC 316 in Montreal. Walker will look to climb again into the win column after arising winless in his final three outings.
Forward of his fifteenth stroll to the Octagon, Walker made an look on the JAXXON Podcast with Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson. There, the Brazilian pressured the significance of checking your ego on the door when heading into the gymnasium daily and shared his perception that toughness and intelligence go hand-in-hand, particularly in fight sports activities.
“You’ll want to be good as a result of it’s your profession, it’s the way you pay your payments, and you need to prepare with out no ego,” Walker mentioned. “Like if any individual gonna make me faucet on the gymnasium, in fact I do know I can resist a bit bit as a lot as I can, but when I see that they gonna get harm, I going to faucet, cuz doesn’t work there’s no cash concerned. That’s going to nowhere.”
Johnny Walker faces one other powerful take a look at at UFC 316
Walker has proven flashes of greatness over time, incomes large wins over Ion Cutelaba, Paul Craig, and Anthony ‘Lionheart’ Smith, however he’s struggled to climb up the sunshine heavyweight rankings with losses in opposition to ex-titleholder Jamahal Hill, present 205-pound king Magomed Ankalaev, and ninth-ranked contender Volkan Oezdemir.
He’ll face one other powerful take a look at in The Nice White North when he meets Murzakanov, an undefeated Russian standout with a 14-0 report, together with 4 wins and three finishes underneath the UFC banner.