“Salsa Boy” is different.
“I’m a different breed,” Cortes-Acosta said during the UFC Vegas 110 post-fight press conference (watch here). “I was born in the Dominican Republic. Everything is war there, everything is like war. One poke in the eye with everything that’s happened in my life, this can’t stop me. I’m never going to let a poke in there lose me an opportunity that can change my life and my family’s.”
After his win, Cortes-Acosta called for a fight with Aspinall and provided the reasoning.
”One, he’s champion, and two, he quit because of a poke in the eye, and third because his training partner — I knocked him out in the first round,” Cortes-Acosta said. “So why isn’t the fight happening between me and Tom Aspinall? Tom Aspinall says [Delija)] is one of the best, and look what happened, that is what can happen between Tom Aspinall and Waldo Cortes.”
With the victory, Cortes-Acosta bounced back from a unanimous decision loss to Sergei Pavlovich earlier this year in China, which snapped his five-fight win streak. The 34-year-old “Salsa Boy” improves to 8-2 inside the Octagon, putting himself right back in the Heavyweight title conversation.
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