Johnny Walker is not even done cooling off from his last win and he is already offering to fight again. The heavyweight finished Waldo Cortes Acosta on November 7, stopping him with a head kick and follow up punches in round three at 2:27, and now he is telling outlets he would gladly step in as backup for the UFC 334 title fight just seven days later.

The report comes from Bloody Elbow, with Yahoo Sports and MMA Fighting all carrying the same story, so this is not a one outlet rumor. Walker's reasoning is simple: it is a title fight, and he does not want to sit it out if something goes wrong in fight week.

Ciryl Gane defends his heavyweight belt against Josh Hokit on November 14 at Madison Square Garden, his first title defense. Gane is favored at minus 200, with Hokit, ranked number four at heavyweight, sitting at plus 190 as a live underdog. Our model leans the same direction as the odds, giving Gane a 68 percent chance against Hokit's 32 percent.

The Elo numbers add an interesting wrinkle. Hokit actually carries the highest rating of the three men involved at 1609 across five bouts, ahead of Gane's 1559 over four fights and Walker's 1534 over eight. None of that changes who is fighting Saturday, but it underlines just how live this title fight is expected to be even with Gane as the betting favorite.

Walker's own words leave no ambiguity about his intentions. He told Bloody Elbow, 'If it's for the title, I'll do something crazy and fight next week anyway.' Fans are already buzzing about the offer over on r/MMA, debating whether the UFC would actually pull the trigger on a turnaround that fast if it ever came to that.