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Pre-fight analysis · prediction vs result
A 38-year-old submission specialist on a five-fight losing run moves up to 205 to meet a man who was knocked out in eight seconds in June.
Gerald Meerschaert is moving to light heavyweight, and the kind reading is that he has run out of middleweights. He has lost five consecutive fights: a decision to Jacob Malkoun in May, a fifty-second submission to Kyle Daukaus, a knockout by Michal Oleksiejczuk, a decision to Brad Tavares and a third-round submission by Reinier de Ridder. His chin rating is 0.0. He is 38 years old and 37-22 as a …
Walker (7-2) is 1-3 across four recorded UFC fights, knocked out by Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev in eight seconds in June and stopped by Dustin Jacoby in round two in February. His only win is a decision over Rafael Cerqueira in August 2025. A 23.9 composite, a 16.7 momentum score and a 0.0 finish rate make him the least productive fighter on this card; at 27 he is the youngest man in the bout by eleven years.
Meerschaert (37-22) has lost five in a row — Malkoun, Daukaus, Oleksiejczuk, Tavares and de Ridder — and moves up from middleweight to 205lbs for this one. Twenty-six recorded UFC fights, a 49.6 quality-of-victory, a 9.17 submission score and a 1.00 finish rate: when he wins he finishes, and he finishes on the mat. His chin rating is 0.0.
Meerschaert's 9.17 submission score against Walker's 0.0 — the widest gap on the card
Meerschaert moving up from middleweight to 205lbs at 38, against a man eleven years younger
Walker's eight-second knockout loss to Yakhyaev in June
Meerschaert's 0.0 chin rating and five consecutive defeats
Whether Meerschaert's 0.92 volume score lets him close distance on an eight-centimetre-taller opponent
Five straight losses at 38, three of them stoppages, is the profile of a fighter who is finished rather than mismatched — the composite may be describing who Meerschaert was
Walker is the bigger man moving to nobody else's weight, and a 0.0 chin rating means he only needs to land once
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