{"id":40197,"date":"2026-08-31T07:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Vitor-Petrino-fires-back-at-Valter-Walker-That-guy-is-a-clown-202595"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:24:25","slug":"vitor-petrino-fires-back-at-valter-walker-that-guy-is-a-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/vitor-petrino-fires-back-at-valter-walker-that-guy-is-a-clown\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitor Petrino fires back at Valter Walker: \u2018That guy is a clown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vitor-petrino-fires-back-at-valter-walker-that-guy-is-a-clown.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Vitor-Petrino-255313\">Vitor<br \/>\nPetrino<\/a> isn\u2019t letting <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Valter-Walker-376023\">Valter<br \/>\nWalker<\/a>&#8216;s latest jab go unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>Petrino (15-2) extended his win streak to four with a unanimous<br \/>\ndecision over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Serghei-Spivac-179095\">Serghei<br \/>\nSpivac<\/a> on Aug. 22 to further ascend the heavyweight rankings.<br \/>\nWalker (16-1), who\u2019s also among the top-ranked heavyweights in the<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>, took a shot at Petrino on<br \/>\nsocial media by posting a photo from his recent fight, labeling it<br \/>\nboring.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Petrino has now fired back.<\/p>\n<h2>Vitor Petrino says he has repeatedly asked the UFC to book<br \/>\nValter Walker<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent interview with Sherdog&#8217;s Marcelo Alonso, Petrino<br \/>\nresponded to Walker\u2019s comments about his fight with Spivac,<br \/>\nclaiming that he\u2019s campaigned for a matchup against the grappling<br \/>\nspecialist many times, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat guy is a clown. Nobody respects him. I don\u2019t even want to<br \/>\ntalk about him much,\u201d Petrino said. \u201cI\u2019ve asked for that fight<br \/>\nseveral times and I don\u2019t know why the UFC hasn\u2019t made it<br \/>\nhappen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petrino&#8217;s interest in the matchup isn\u2019t new. His coach, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Cristiano-Marcello-3530\">Cristiano<br \/>\nMarcello<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Coach-Vitor-Petrino-accepts-Valter-Walkers-challenge-hopes-for-July-booking-200509\"><br \/>\npreviously told Sherdog<\/a> that Petrino had accepted a challenge<br \/>\nfrom Walker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike him, who has already said he\u2019s not interested in fighting<br \/>\nthe top guys, I like challenging myself,\u201d Petrino said, taking<br \/>\nanother shot at his countryman. \u201cI\u2019ll fight anyone in the Top 10. I<br \/>\nlove to challenge myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker is on a five-fight win streak, with all five wins coming via<br \/>\nleg-based submissions, including four heel hooks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitor Petrino isn\u2019t letting Valter Walker&#8216;s latest jab go unanswered. Petrino (15-2) extended his win streak to four with a unanimous decision over Serghei Spivac on Aug. 22 to further ascend the heavyweight rankings. Walker (16-1), who\u2019s also among the top-ranked heavyweights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, took a shot at Petrino on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40197","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\/40197","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=40197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}