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Johnny Walker vs Mick Parkin

Red corner JohnnyWalkerXtreme Couture · Born in Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Fights out of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
VSSettled
Blue corner MickParkinTFT MMA · Born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England · Fights out of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
Heavyweight3 rounds3 Oct 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Walker.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Parkin.
23-10
Record
10-2
34
Age
−3 yr31
+2″6' 6"
Height
6' 4"
+3″82″
Reach
79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1116
UFC bouts
5
+62%7/888% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
TFT MMA
Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Born in
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Fights out of
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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
Johnny Walker
52.3% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledKO/TKO 46%
Vs the market−0.6pp
Market had our pick at53%
The fight
Johnny Walker
WIN✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock3:35
BonusPOTN
Called it We called Johnny Walker at 52.3% and Johnny Walker won. The method call landed too.
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 →

By the numbers

  • Time away

    Parkin’s first UFC fight in 18 months. A fighter coming back after 1 to 2 years away, against an opponent active within the year, wins 41% of the time (377 of 926 fights).

  • Age

    Parkin is 3 years younger. With an age gap of 2 to 3 years, the younger fighter wins 57% of UFC fights (1,250 of 2,206 fights).

History leans Parkin on 1 of these; our model picked Walker.

Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.

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 13:35 of action⚡ 1 KD WalkerEnded 3:35
Johnny Walker23 sig landed
HEAD26%6 of 14BODY17%4 of 4LEGS57%13 of 14
Mick Parkin11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS82%9 of 10
23 of 32
Sig.
strikes
11 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:27
Control
0:31
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 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

Johnny Walker

Round
1
Clock
3:35
Method
KO/TKO

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: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Johnny Walker

0.35takedowns / 15 min
0.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.31 / 15m
0.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.85 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
46%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Mick Parkin

1.31takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Johnny WalkerMick ParkinPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Johnny Walker vs Mick Parkin — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Johnny Walker and Mick Parkin from Sep 25 to Oct 03, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Johnny Walker moves from 56% to 52% and Mick Parkin from 44% to 48%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.35%40%45%50%55%60%65%Sep 25Sep 27Sep 29Oct 1Oct 3▲ we passed here (toss-up)52%48%

Johnny Walker's implied chance drifted down from 56% to 52% (−4.5pp) over this window.

This series stops at Oct 03 21:31Z — the last capture we hold from before the bout that ran ahead of this one on the card had finished — so it is provably from before this fight started. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Johnny Walker at 52.3%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 51.5% — our number sat 0.8pp above 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 pre-fightMove
Johnny Walker — sportsbook consensus57.0%51.2%57.0%51.2%−5.8pp
Mick Parkin — sportsbook consensus43.0%43.0%48.8%48.8%+5.8pp
Johnny Walker — Polymarket56.0%50.5%58.0%51.5%−4.5pp
Mick Parkin — Polymarket44.0%42.0%49.5%48.5%+4.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,173 snapshots on file · window Sep 25 17:11–Oct 03 21:21Z · last capture Oct 03, 21:21Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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