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Events · Ankalaev vs Guskov · Thomas Petersen vs Valter Walker
Red corner ThomasPetersen“The Train”Spartan MMA · Farmington, Minnesota
VSSettled
Blue corner ValterWalker“The Clean Monster”Gor MMA · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Heavyweight3 rounds25 Jul 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 87 points more takedown defence than Walker.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Walker’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
11-5
Record
16-1
31
Age
−3 yr28
6' 1"
Height
+5″6' 6"
74″
Reach
+4″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+16
UFC bouts
5
0/30% of wins
Finishes
+100%4/4100% of wins
Spartan MMA
Gym
Gor MMA
Farmington, Minnesota
From
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Valter Walker
59.2% confidentLOW
Method calledKO/TKO 37%
Vs the market−3.2pp
Market had our pick at62%
The fight
Valter Walker
WIN
How it endedSUB
Round1 of 3
Clock1:32
Called it We called Valter Walker at 59.2% and Valter Walker won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 11:32 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 1:32
Thomas Petersen0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

Valter Walker1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 1
Sig.
strikes
1 of 1
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:37
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Valter Walker

Round
1
Clock
1:32
Method
SUB

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Daniel Movahedi.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Thomas Petersen

3.01takedowns / 15 min
3.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.74 / 15m
7.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.32 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
69%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.50 / 15m

Valter Walker

5.74takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Thomas PetersenValter WalkerPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Thomas Petersen vs Valter Walker — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Thomas Petersen and Valter Walker from Jul 17 to Jul 25, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Thomas Petersen moves from 57% to 38% and Valter Walker from 42% to 62%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%Jul 17Jul 19Jul 21Jul 23Jul 25▲ our call: Valter Walker (LOW)38%62%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Valter Walker's implied chance moved up from 42% to 62% (+20.0pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Valter Walker at 59.2%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 62.5% — our number sat 3.3pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Thomas Petersen — sportsbook consensus29.6%28.7%37.7%37.6%+8.0pp
Valter Walker — sportsbook consensus70.4%62.3%71.3%62.4%−8.0pp
Thomas Petersen — Polymarket57.5%17.5%75.5%37.5%−20.0pp
Valter Walker — Polymarket42.5%24.5%82.5%62.5%+20.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,275 snapshots on file · window Jul 17 15:12Jul 25 14:18Z · last capture Jul 25, 14:18Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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