Julius Walker

I'll pick GM3

Walker is an explosive, high-pace, durable striker who starts with a high guard but drops his hands and opens himself to counters once he starts swinging. His grappling centers on relentless cage pressure and dirty boxing (called his best skill), with difficulty controlling opponents once down but very high activity off his own back.

wins this pretty clearly

Walker is a decent striker who makes up for rough technique with a high work rate: lots of volume and explosive strikes, a durable chin and a high guard, but he drops his hands when throwing and swings wild on entries. His grappling is decent too, with his dirty boxing in a cage-push clinch singled out as his best skill; outside of that he shows only basic sweeps and loses top control once he gets there, leaning on pace to make up the gap. The analyst frames him as a raw, athletic talent who arrived in the UFC earlier than his development allowed and is still learning on the job, with real room to keep improving.

calls the striking gap one-sided

As of 2026-02-01 he is a decent, rudimentary striker with a high guard and good volume who is explosive but drops his hands when throwing and swings wild on entries. The analyst opens by praising his durability, then immediately complicates it, noting he has taken a lot of damage in his last couple of fights and may simply be new enough (a former ball-sports athlete) not to have been tested yet; that leaves his current chin an open question rather than a settled grade. His grappling is decent -- a good cage push and dirty boxing, hard to control if taken down -- but his top control is weak and he lets opponents up too easily.

Says he'll be 'shocked' if Walker loses, calls him 'a big favorite,' and predicts he 'runs through him' here.

A still-developing, rudimentary striker -- decent power and volume with a high guard, but his hands drop when he throws. His grappling is the clear strength: a good grappler with a strong cage push, dirty boxing, a hard-to-control bottom game, a Kimura-based sweep, and activity off his back, though his decent takedowns outpace his top control. The analyst treats him as a clear favorite against limited opposition.

Picks Menifield as the proven name, but admits he 'could be wrong', calls Walker's unbeaten run a legitimate threat, and rests the pick mostly on the gap in opposition and a bad short-notice spot rather than a style mechanism.

An unbeaten (6-0) regional-circuit fighter and a freak athlete: tall, explosive, with flying knees and a seemingly endless gas tank. His striking is decent with good volume and a high guard, but his hands drop when he throws. His grappling is the better side: cage pushes, dirty boxing, sweeps, activity from his back, submission attacks and a high pace. His takedowns are only decent and he gets little top time because opponents pop back up. The analyst sees this as a big jump in competition on short notice.