Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight Marcin
Tybura better watch his legs or he’ll find himself limping
home.
Per an initial report on Thursday from MMA Mania, Tybura (27-10) and Valter
Walker (15-1) will trade blows inside the Octagon on March 28.
The two big men will go at it on the UFC Seattle card, also known as UFC Fight Night
271, at the Climate Pledge Arena in Washington state’s largest
city. This news has since been confirmed by both
athletes on their respective Instagram pages.
While Tybura first revealed the bout information, Walker chided him
for releasing it while referencing Brazilian folklore.
“Why, Marcin Tybura, did you spill our secret too soon,” Walker
wrote, with translation via Google Translate. “When you tap out
three times, I won’t let go, you’ll turn into a curupira!”
Protect Ya Foot
Poland’s Tybura comes into this pairing having lost his last time
out, a knockout at the hands of Ante Delija
in September 2025. His campaign that year went so-so, as he also
procured a decision victory over then-unbeaten Mick Parkin
to keep a number next to his name. Should the 40-year-old get his
hand raised in March, it will serve as his 15th win inside the
Octagon, sliding him into a tie with Junior dos
Santos for the fourth-most in UFC heavyweight history.
“The Foot Hunter” has rightfully earned his nickname by snatching
up four consecutive heel hook submissions—one of the inverted
variety—in his last four triumphs. All four have taken place in the
first round, where he is one shy of all-time leader Rousimar
Palhares. His four heel hooks account for all but one of his
career submissions, with the other a rear-naked choke in his
sophomore outing in 2020. If he taps out Tybura, he would become
the second man to ever do so—Serghei
Spivac did so first in 2024, landing an armbar on “Tybur.”