He is best known for winning a ten-round decision over hall-of-fame champion Alexis Argüello, ending Arguello's ill-conceived bid at a comeback in January 1995.
[1] Six months after this victory, Walker won the WBC Continental Americas super lightweight title over Francisco Cuesta on July 17, 1995.
Early in January 1996, Bob Arum's Top Rank Boxing offered Walker $55,000 to fight for Chavez's WBC junior welterweight title.
[3] The fight, nationally televised, took place on February 9, 1996, at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In addition to his boxing career, Walker was a guitarist, singer and songwriter, and fronted The Pink Cat Band.