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Johnny Walker vs.
Mick Parkin

Two full careers, measured against each man's own division and against each other — the tape, the read, and every number behind them.

8-7-0 (1 NC) Johnny Walker · UFC
4-1-0 Mick Parkin · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

Frame, age, layoff and recent form — green marks the edge on each line.

8-7-0 (1 NC)
UFC record
4-1-0
Light Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Heavyweight
34.4
AgeΔ 3.6 yrs
30.8
6'6"
HeightΔ 2"
6'4"
82"
ReachΔ 3"
79"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3.8
Layoff (months)Δ 12.7 mo
16.5
LWLLNC
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWWW
The read

What the numbers say.

Scouting notes, auto-generated — only stats deviating more than 25% from the division median make this list. No narratives, just deviations.

Johnny Walker carries real power — 0.69 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.40 Light Heavyweight norm.
Johnny Walker rarely shoots — 0.28 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.
Mick Parkin outworks the Heavyweight division — 4.73 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.36 norm.
Level of competition

Who did they actually beat?

Full-career records re-graded by the tier of opposition — the same grading the Contender Series pick model uses. Records built on tier-4 competition are worth less than records built on killers.

Johnny Walker

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 97
Tier 3 — regional circuit 133

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.9 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 20 finish wins over 33 documented bouts

In the UFC: 7-7 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.4 wins over .500

Mick Parkin

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 51
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.74 · 5 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 11 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.4 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

Career totals; norms are the medians of each man's own division.

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4013.70/min · norm 3.41
Sig. strikes landed
3004.73/min · norm 3.36
3162.91/min · norm 3.35
Sig. strikes absorbed
2544.01/min · norm 3.19
52.9%norm 48.3%
Striking accuracy
49.9%norm 47.8%
48.9%norm 52.9%
Striking defense
59.7%norm 52.5%
50.69/15 · norm 0.40
Knockdowns
10.24/15 · norm 0.28

Where the fight happens (share of sig. strike attempts)

Johnny Walker

Distance 80.3% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 4.6% (norm 8.6%) · Ground 15.0% (norm 10.4%)

Mick Parkin

Distance 92.2% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 2.5% (norm 9.8%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 9.3%)

What they throw (share of sig. strike attempts by target)

Johnny Walker

Head 59.6% (norm 79.2%) · Body 10.7% (norm 11.7%) · Legs 29.7% (norm 9.7%)

Mick Parkin

Head 78.2% (norm 79.2%) · Body 5.0% (norm 11.5%) · Legs 16.8% (norm 7.6%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

Green ≥ division median, red below. UFCStats tracks position and target as separate splits.

Zone Walker L/AAccLight Heavyweight med Parkin L/AAccHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 280 / 609 46.0% 41.4% 274 / 554 49.5% 40.1%
In the clinch 28 / 35 80.0% 70.9% 12 / 15 too few to rate 70.6%
On the ground 93 / 114 81.6% 72.3% 14 / 32 43.8% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 187 / 452 41.4% 38.9% 183 / 470 38.9% 38.9%
To the body 40 / 81 49.4% 71.9% 23 / 30 76.7% 76.8%
To the legs 174 / 225 77.3% 81.8% 94 / 101 93.1% 87.8%

Zones with fewer than 25 attempts are marked "too few to rate". Each fighter is measured against the median of leaderboard-eligible fighters in his own division (Light Heavyweight: 93 fighters · Heavyweight: 93 fighters).

What lands on them Opponents' accuracy against each man

Green ≤ division median — harder to hit than the typical man in his division.

Zone vs Walker L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med vs Parkin L/AOpp accHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 237 / 511 46.4% 40.4% 239 / 609 39.2% 40.7%
In the clinch 24 / 36 66.7% 68.7% 13 / 20 too few to rate 70.6%
On the ground 55 / 71 77.5% 70.4% 2 / 2 too few to rate 72.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 159 / 394 40.4% 37.5% 129 / 466 27.7% 38.8%
To the body 66 / 102 64.7% 72.3% 90 / 129 69.8% 75.1%
To the legs 91 / 122 74.6% 83.0% 35 / 36 97.2% 84.4%
Grappling

The ground war.

Takedowns, control and submissions — career totals with each man's per-minute rates against his division norm.

240.0% acc · 0.28/15 · norm 0.87
Takedowns landed
436.4% acc · 0.95/15 · norm 0.95
950.0% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
375.0% def · norm 64.3%
8:157.6% of cage time · norm 16.5%
Control time
10:0816.0% of cage time · norm 17.2%
19:372:42 per 15 · norm 2:48
Time under control
2:380:37 per 15 · norm 2:28
30.42/15 · norm 0.27
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.16

Bars compare the two men's rates (per-minute / per-15 figures), not raw totals — Walker has more cage time on record.

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