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\nVitor Petrino is building momentum at heavyweight. |
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After watching Vitor “You’re complaining about the ranking, so let’s fight in June to Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Petrino\u2019s coach, Cristiano “Challenge accepted,\u201d Marcello said, adding that the preference is Walker has won four straight UFC appearances since dropping his Petrino has nine fights in the UFC. He entered the UFC through Vitor Petrino is building momentum at heavyweight. | Getty\/UFC After watching Vitor Petrino‘s third consecutive victory over Steven Asplund in the heavyweight division last Saturday, Valter Walker challenged his countryman on social media. “You’re complaining about the ranking, so let’s fight in June to see if you enter the rankings. I’m in the top 14,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPetrino<\/a>‘s third consecutive victory over Steven
\nAsplund<\/a> in the heavyweight division last Saturday, Valter
\nWalker<\/a> challenged his countryman on social media.<\/p>\n
\nsee if you enter the rankings. I’m in the top 14,” Walker said in a
\ncomment right after the fight (Petrino would enter the
\nUFC<\/a> rankings at 15th on Tuesday).<\/p>\n
\nMarcello<\/a>, told Sherdog.com that the challenge was not only
\naccepted but also taken to the UFC.<\/p>\nChallenge Accepted<\/h2>\n
\nthat the fight takes place in July. \u201cOur manager has already taken
\nit to the UFC and we are just waiting for the answer. Valter is a
\ngood fight for Petrino. Now it’s up there and we’ll see which
\nshield breaks through first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nOctagon debut. All of Walker’s victories in the organization have
\ncome via the same submission: an ankle lock, which became his
\ntrademark.<\/p>\n
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\nDana White’s Contender Series<\/a> by knocking out Rodolfo
\nBellato<\/a>. After stringing together four consecutive victories in
\nthe light heavyweight division, Petrino suffered two setbacks. He
\nwas submitted by Anthony
\nSmith<\/a> at UFC 301 in Rio de Janeiro and knocked out by Dustin
\nJacoby<\/a>. The defeats led the Brazilian to move up to heavyweight
\nin 2025, where he managed to reach the rankings i after defeating
\nAusten
\nLane<\/a>, Thomas Peterson and Asplund. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"