Waldo Cortes Acosta
“Salsa Boy”
Heavyweight#5Active
Career record
17–3–0
wins–losses–draws
UFC record
10–3–0
as stored in the database
Wins by
9KO1SUB7DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Losses by
0KO0SUB2DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Bio & physicals
- Date of birth
- 1991-10-03 · age 34
- Height
- 6′ 4″ (76 in)
- Reach
- 78 in
- Leg reach
- 44 in
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Hometown
- Fundacion, Barahona, Dominican Republic
- Gym / team
- Ultimate Kombat Fitness
- Octagon debut
- 2022-10-29
Striking & grappling
- Strikes landed per minute
- 5.34
- Striking accuracy
- 48%
- Strikes absorbed per minute
- 3.63
- Striking defence
- 54%
- Takedown average
- 0.40
- Takedown accuracy
- 50%
- Takedown defence
- 73%
- Submission average
- 0.10
Career averages as stored. A dash is a value the database does not hold; a zero is a recorded zero. Nothing on this page is computed from the bouts below.
Bout history
14 recorded · newest first| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Weight class | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | Curtis Blaydes | No winner recorded | — | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Silva |
| 2026-05-09 | Alexander Volkov | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC 328: Chimaev vs Strickland |
| 2026-01-24 | Derrick Lewis | Win | TKO · R2 · 3:14 | Heavyweight | UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett |
| 2025-11-22 | Shamil Gaziev | Win | TKO · R1 · 1:22 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker |
| 2025-11-01 | Ante Delija | Win | TKO · R1 · 3:59 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama |
| 2025-08-23 | Sergei Pavlovich | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang |
| 2025-06-07 | Serghei Spivac | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 |
| 2025-03-15 | Ryan Spann | Win | TKO · R2 · 4:48 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 |
| 2024-05-11 | Robelis Despaigne | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento |
| 2024-01-13 | Andrei Arlovski | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 |
| 2023-08-26 | Lukasz Brzeski | Win | TKO · R1 · 3:01 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie |
| 2023-04-29 | Marcos Rogerio de Lima | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon |
| 2022-11-19 | Chase Sherman | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Nzechukwu vs. Cutelaba |
| 2022-10-29 | Jared Vanderaa | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen |
Bouts are matched to this fighter on ID, never on name — 14 rows in the archive list Waldo Cortes Acosta as one of the two fighters. One of them does not record a winner that resolves to either fighter, so it is shown as such rather than being assigned a result. The bout count here is a count of rows in this archive and will not always equal the career record above, which is a separate stored field. The database also holds an Elo rating for each fighter; it is a current rating that already contains the results below, so it is not published on this page.
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