The best and worst from UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith

#2 Best: Johnny Walker is incredible

Johnny Walker took out Misha Cirkunov in seconds with a flying knee

When the UFC signed Johnny Walker in mid-2018, I figured he’d be a decent-at-best addition to 205lbs, the kind of action fighter who’d lose as many fights as he’d win, generally put on a fun show and probably last in the promotion for a couple of years before washing out. Well, that idea’s been proven massively wrong.

Walker is already 3-0 in the UFC with three finishes worthy of anyone’s highlight reel; a crushing elbow knockout of Khalil Rountree, a hook kick into a spinning backfist KO of Justin Ledet, and now last night’s insane flying knee knockout of prospect Misha Cirkunov. And incredibly, he hasn’t even spent 3 minutes inside the Octagon yet!

When you add in the fact that the Brazilian has a strange form of charisma that clearly draws the fans in, we should probably expect the UFC to get behind Walker big time when it comes to promotion in the next few months.

Sure, his weird celebration – the ‘worm’ dance – injured his shoulder last night, but if he’s back sooner rather than later, I’d be surprised to see him in anything other than a semi-main event in his next fight. Hell, if he keeps this up he could be fighting for the title before 2019’s out.