Valter Walker tells Alex Pereira he is still waiting for that sparring ticket
Walker said Pereira has "a very wounded ego" before the former two-division champion faces Walker's teammate Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 335.
Valter Walker has told Alex Pereira he is still waiting for the plane ticket to take up his sparring challenge.
Pereira had dared Walker to spar with him, offering to pay him the equivalent of his last fight purse if he could submit him, after Walker predicted his teammate Sergei Pavlovich would knock Pereira out.
In a video alongside coach Gor Azizyan, Walker said: "Poatan, I'm still waiting for that ticket. Buy it, and I'll head straight to Las Vegas to get a hold of your foot. If you don't want me grabbing your foot at the Performance Institute, no problem—I'll buy you a business-class ticket, and you can come here to Russia instead."
Speaking to the Brazilian YouTube channel Sexto Round, Walker went further. "He has a very wounded ego," he said. "Everything for him is about money; everything is about buying imported cars."
Pereira faces Pavlovich at UFC 335 in Las Vegas on 12 December: Alex Pereira vs Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 335.
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