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Gerald Meerschaert vs Julius Walker

Red corner GeraldMeerschaert“GM3”Kill Cliff FC · Born in Racine, Wisconsin, United States · Fights out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
VSSettled
Blue corner JuliusWalker“Juice Box”Team Fusion · Hometown (per Sherdog): Springfield, Missouri
Light Heavyweight3 rounds10 Oct 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 5 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Every one of Meerschaert’s 12 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 60 points more takedown defence than Meerschaert.
37-23
Record
8-3
38
Age
−11 yr27
6' 1"
Height
+3″6' 4"
77″
Reach
+1″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+2226
UFC bouts
4
12/12100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Team Fusion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United Statesfights out of
From
Springfield, Missourihometown, per Sherdog
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Julius Walker
80.8% confidentLOCK
Method calledKO/TKO 38%
Vs the market+8.2pp
Market had our pick at73%
The fight
Julius Walker
WIN✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock3:35
Called it We called Julius Walker at 80.8% and Julius Walker won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

By the numbers

  • Age

    Walker is 11 years younger. With an age gap of 10 years or more, the younger fighter wins 70% of UFC fights (352 of 506 fights).

Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Gerald Meerschaert7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 10BODY14%1 of 1LEGS14%1 of 1
Julius Walker27 sig landed
HEAD96%26 of 36BODY4%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 12
Sig.
strikes
27 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:32
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 22
Round 23:35 of actionEnded 3:35
Gerald Meerschaert2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Julius Walker11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
2 of 2
Sig.
strikes
11 of 13
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:03
Control
3:13
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 11

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Julius Walker

Round
2
Clock
3:35
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Gerald Meerschaert

1.70takedowns / 15 min
1.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.07 / 15m
5.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.71 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
38%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Julius Walker

4.07takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Gerald MeerschaertJulius WalkerPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Gerald Meerschaert vs Julius Walker — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Gerald Meerschaert and Julius Walker from Oct 02 to Oct 10, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Gerald Meerschaert moves from 50% to 24% and Julius Walker from 50% to 76%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Oct 2Oct 4Oct 6Oct 8Oct 10▲ we flagged Julius Walker (LOCK) here24%76%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Julius Walker's implied chance moved up from 50% to 76% (+25.5pp).

Our published call had Julius Walker at 80.8%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 75.5% — our number sat 5.3pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Gerald Meerschaert — sportsbook consensus31.5%27.4%31.5%27.4%−4.0pp
Julius Walker — sportsbook consensus68.5%68.5%72.6%72.6%+4.0pp
Gerald Meerschaert — Polymarket50.0%24.5%50.0%24.5%−25.5pp
Julius Walker — Polymarket50.0%50.0%75.5%75.5%+25.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,162 snapshots on file · window Oct 02 22:11–Oct 10 23:41Z · last capture Oct 10, 23:41Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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