{"id":331064,"date":"2019-11-06T06:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=331064"},"modified":"2019-11-06T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:20:20","slug":"johnny-walker-reveals-the-mistake-that-cost-him-at-ufc-244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/johnny-walker-reveals-the-mistake-that-cost-him-at-ufc-244\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Walker reveals the mistake that cost him at UFC 244"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight contender Johnny Walker has spoken about the mistake which cost him the fight against Corey Anderson this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Walker headlined the prelims at UFC 244 in a fight that many were tipping to be his big moment in the spotlight. In the end, though, it turned out to be anything but as Anderson was able to run through him with ease in <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-244-results-corey-anderson-stops-johnny-walker-in-round-1-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a first round TKO victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It put a definitive end to the Brazilian&#8217;s five-fight winning streak to start his UFC career, and during a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/11\/5\/20948126\/johnny-walker-ufc-244-loss-corey-anderson-shogun-rua-paul-craig-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>, the man himself was able to reflect on what exactly went wrong at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Corey Anderson knocks Johnny Walker out, screams in his face and then does the worm at UFC 244!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pWYyaP2k1-c?start=57&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"n2aUWN\">\u201cI know it was my mistake,\u201d Walker told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/11\/5\/20948126\/johnny-walker-ufc-244-loss-corey-anderson-shogun-rua-paul-craig-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cI hesitated too much. I should have been more aggressive, but I didn\u2019t. I had too many people talking about his takedowns, so I waited for him to shoot, and I didn\u2019t let my game go. It was the wrong strategy. I should have listened to myself. I listened to everyone else but me. That was my mistake. I regret that.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Z8NzKn\">\u201cI should have gone for the knockout right away like I always do, but I ended up changing my game and everything went wrong. But it\u2019s alright \u2013 I\u2019m ready for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker is hoping to return as soon as possible which won&#8217;t exactly come as much of a surprise to the masses, whereas Anderson has his eyes firmly set on a UFC Light Heavyweight Championship title shot.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve come to learn over the course of the last 25 years, counting someone out after a loss like this in the UFC is a mistake more often than not. With that in mind, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how Walker is able to bounce back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/6\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight contender Johnny Walker has spoken about the mistake which cost him the fight against Corey Anderson this past weekend. Walker headlined the prelims at UFC 244 in a fight that many were tipping to be his big moment in the spotlight. In the end, though, it turned out to be anything but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":304236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10269,41397,39610,53692],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Johnny Walker reveals the mistake that cost him at UFC 244<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC light heavyweight Johnny Walker has revealed the mistake that cost him the win against Corey Anderson at UFC 244 this past weekend.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/johnny-walker-reveals-the-mistake-that-cost-him-at-ufc-244\/\" \/>\n<meta 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