DANA WHITE has received a short-notice backup offer from a fan favourite just days before UFC 334.
The leader makes its annual visit to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday morning.
The card, the ‘s penultimate premium numbered event of the year, will feature two title fights.
A women’s bantamweight title fight between Kayla Harrison and will serve as the co-main event of the evening.
The UFC have a back-up plan in place should one of the former American Top Team team-mates fall out of their MSG melee.
White and the matchmakers have for the co-main event.
The identity of the back-up fighter for the main event heavyweight title fight between Ciryl Gane and Josh Hokit has yet to be revealed.
But and Co. have received a short-notice offer from the in-form Johnny Walker just days after his stunning stoppage of Waldo Cortes-Acosta.
The Brazilian told MMA Fighting : “If they need someone to step in, I’m here.
“I didn’t get hurt too badly, no. My face is just a little swollen because I ate a lot of punches, right?
“I got hit a lot and it got swollen, but I didn’t suffer any injuries.”
Walker is on a tear since light-heavyweight and entering the UFC’s 265lbs division.
He scored a sensational first-round KO victory over Brit Mick Parkin at UFC 332 last month.
And he followed that up last Sunday morning by handing Cortes-Acosta his first-ever stoppage loss in the third round of their Sin City showdown at the UFC Meta Apex.
