Johnny Walker says UFC Vegas 124 knockout was 'street fight sh*t': 'Surprise motherf*cker'

Walker says he cut 40 pounds to fight at light heavyweight and was "checking my chin" against Waldo Cortes-Acosta before he finished him.

Johnny Walker says the finish that ended Waldo Cortes-Acosta in the UFC Vegas 124 main event was "street fight sh*t", not technique.

"This is not technique," Walker said on the UFC Vegas 124 post-fight show. "This is street fight sh*t. You don't have this punch in boxing. He didn't know how I punch him, because this is not technique. Surprise motherf*cker!"

Walker worked Cortes-Acosta's legs with kicks before stopping him at 2:27 of the third round at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas. At the post-fight press conference, he called it "a little bit bar fight with technique".

The fight came together on a week's notice, and Walker said he feels much better at heavyweight after most of his UFC career at light heavyweight. "I'm 240, 245 [pounds], normal, my natural weight. I cut 40 pounds being lean. I killed myself at light heavyweight. Now I feel I can train better I have more power. I can take more punches."

He also said he had been testing his chin in some of the exchanges with Cortes-Acosta. "No, I was there checking my chin," Walker said. "OK, no more I said f*ck that's enough and then I finished him."

Walker is now 2-0 at heavyweight, having knocked out England's Mick Parkin on his debut at UFC 332 in October. Cortes-Acosta was No. 6 in the UFC heavyweight rankings going in. On whether he waited too long to move up, he said: "No, because I got experience." He added: "So I'm happy with my career at light heavyweight. Now I'm going to do a new career at heavyweight."

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