{"id":41433,"date":"2026-11-02T21:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Johnny-Walker-refuses-to-fight-brother-Valter-My-own-blood-203462"},"modified":"2026-11-02T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:17:41","slug":"johnny-walker-refuses-to-fight-brother-valter-my-own-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/johnny-walker-refuses-to-fight-brother-valter-my-own-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Walker refuses to fight brother Valter: ‘My own blood’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Johnny
\nWalker<\/a> has ruled out fighting his half-brother, Valter
\nWalker<\/a>, in the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian heavyweight told MMAFighting<\/a> that the
\nviolence inherent in the sport makes facing a relative
\nunthinkable.<\/p>\n

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Johnny Walker rules out UFC fight with half-brother Valter
\nWalker despite tension over their relationship<\/h2>\n

\u201cNo, man. Am I going to fight my own brother? Are you crazy?\u201d
\nWalker said. \u201cI go in there to hurt other people. I don’t want to
\nhurt my own blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker explained that fighters must set aside concern for their
\nopponents once they enter the cage, but he cannot imagine
\napproaching a fight against his brother that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we step in there, man, it’s one guy trying to kill the other.
\nThat’s just how it is. You signed the contract, you know what
\nyou’re getting into,\u201d Walker explained. \u201cBut doing that to your own
\nbrother, someone who shares your blood, there’s no way. Unless the
\nguy is completely crazy \u2014 and I’m not that crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite their differences, Johnny said he loves his younger
\nhalf-brother and hopes their relationship improves. The two have
\ntrained together in Russia, but Johnny said Valter’s jokes and
\nprovocative comments have caused tension between them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to be close to my brother. I’d like to have a brother
\nI could count on 100 percent,\u201d Johnny added. \u201cBut he jokes around
\ntoo much and is often disrespectful, so it makes it difficult to
\nget closer to him.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johnny Walker has ruled out fighting his half-brother, Valter Walker, in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The Brazilian heavyweight told MMAFighting that the violence inherent in the sport makes facing a relative unthinkable. Advertisement Johnny Walker rules out UFC fight with half-brother Valter Walker despite tension over their relationship \u201cNo, man. Am I going to fight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41433","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\/41433","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=41433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}