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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−3.1pp
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.

Still to come on this page

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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