{"id":37479,"date":"2026-03-30T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Johnny-Walker-reveals-he-recently-took-Francis-Ngannou-uppercut-in-sparring-200660"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:45:21","slug":"johnny-walker-reveals-he-recently-took-francis-ngannou-uppercut-in-sparring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/johnny-walker-reveals-he-recently-took-francis-ngannou-uppercut-in-sparring\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Walker reveals he recently took Francis Ngannou uppercut in sparring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Johnny
\nWalker<\/a> says it is best to train with a variety of sparring
\npartners. <\/p>\n

Walker is scheduled to fight Dominick
\nReyes<\/a> at UFC 327<\/a>
\non April 11 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. Walker trains
\nat
\nXtreme Couture<\/a>, which is also home to Francis
\nNgannou<\/a>. Walker recently revealed that he ate a clean uppercut
\nfrom the former UFC heavyweight champ just last week. <\/p>\n

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Walker explains that one has to mix up powerful and technical
\nsparring partners depending on what stage of training camp they are
\nat. The Brazilian says that it is OK to get hit hard early in camp,
\nas there is ample time to recover. However, with less than two
\nweeks left for his upcoming fight, Walker now plans to spar against
\ntechnical and easy partners.<\/p>\n

Finding the Right Mix<\/h2>\n

\u201cI got a clean uppercut [from Ngannou] last week, and f\u2014k, heavy
\nhanded, bro, crazy\u2026 It\u2019s better to mix [powerful and technical
\nsparring partners],\u201d Walker told Full Mount MMA. \u201cIt depends where
\nyou are in the camp. In the beginning of the camp you can get hurt,
\nthere’s no problem, you have time to heal. In the end of the camp,
\nlike right now, I have two weeks and a half. Now I have to be very
\ncareful and train with guys more technical and easy because all
\nhard work is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker (22-9) is coming off an upset technical knockout win over
\nMingyang
\nZhang<\/a> that saw him rebound from consecutive losses against
\nMagomed
\nAnkalaev<\/a> and Volkan
\nOezdemir<\/a>. Meanwhile, Reyes (15-5) is coming off a knockout loss
\nagainst Carlos
\nUlberg<\/a> that snapped a three-fight finishing
\nstreak.  <\/p>\n

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\ud83d\ude2c\ud83d\udca5 Johnny
\nWalker<\/a> says he ATE clean uppercut from Francis
\nNgannou<\/a> just a week ago in preparation for Dominick
\nReyes<\/a> fight:<\/p>\n

“I got a clean uppercut last week, and f**k, he is heavy
\nhanded.”<\/p>\n

“In the beginning of the camp you can get hurt, there’s no problem,
\nyou have time to\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/IC5dkaFrAC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Full Mount MMA (@MMAFullMount)
\nMarch 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Johnny Walker says it is best to train with a variety of sparring partners.  Walker is scheduled to fight Dominick Reyes at UFC 327 on April 11 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. Walker trains at Xtreme Couture, which is also home to Francis Ngannou. Walker recently revealed that he ate a clean uppercut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37479","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\/37479","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=37479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}