{"id":256221,"date":"2025-11-02T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256221\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:12:13","slug":"waldo-cortes-acosta-scores-awesome-ko-nov-1-at-apex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256221\/","title":{"rendered":"Waldo Cortes-Acosta Scores Awesome KO Nov. 1 At Apex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waldo Cortes-Acosta<\/a> entered this past weekend\u2019s UFC Vegas 110<\/a> at the UFC Apex<\/a> facility at No. 6 in the rankings at 265 lbs. If he was right on the cusp of the heavyweight championship conversation heading into the weekend\u2019s fights, he\u2019s firmly in the conversation now.

\"\"<\/a>It took some doing to get the victory, but now that the dust has settled on Saturday night\u2019s schedule<\/a> at the UFC Apex, Cortes-Acosta\u2019s win is one that he\u2019ll remember for a long time. His opponent on Saturday night was No. 9 contender Ante Delija.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

All you really need to know about the co-main event<\/a> of the evening at UFC Vegas 110 on Saturday night is what transpired during two sequences of events. Spoiler alert: Both Waldo Cortes-Acosta and Ante Delija brought the drama to the fabled Octagon inside the UFC Apex on the opening night of November.<\/p>\n

\"Waldo<\/a>June 7, 2025, Newark, New Jersey, United State: Serghei Spivac fights Waldo Cortes-Acosta during the UFC 316 at Prudential Center on June 07, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey, United State. \/PxImages Newark United State \u2013 ZUMAp175 20250607_zsa_p175_061 Copyright: xMattxDaviesx
\nWaldo Cortes-Acosta Loses by Knockout\u2026 Briefly, in Co-Main Event of UFC Vegas 110<\/p>\n

The co-main attraction of the evening at UFC Vegas 110 was set for an advertised three rounds at five minutes per round and Ante Delija was intent on making sure that this fight wouldn\u2019t go the 15 minutes. At least, this is how it looked initially.<\/p>\n

At first, Ante Delija delivered a barrage of vicious, thunderous punches and it appeared as though the ninth-ranked heavyweight won the contest. However, Delija, in his haste to finish the fight, was shown to have landed an inadvertent poke to Waldo Cortes-Acosta\u2019s eye when the sequence was reviewed by instant replay during the stoppage.<\/p>\n

According to UFC protocol, in the event of an injury timeout, as was the case here, Cortes-Acosta was allowed five minutes of recovery time. After the injury timeout lapsed, the No. 6 heavyweight pronounced himself fit to continue.<\/p>\n

Waldo Cortes-Acosta Uses Injury Timeout Advantageously, Storms Back to Win Co-Main Event<\/p>\n

Upon the resumption of the fight, Cortes-Acosta left zero doubt as to whether or not he\u2019d have enough energy left in his gas tank to complete an astounding comeback. He uncorked<\/a> a vicious right-handed punch to sit Ante Delija down. A flurry of ground and pound shots served as the exclamation point to this wild contest.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Although it lasted three minutes and 59 seconds in the Octagon on Saturday evening, the contest which matched Waldo Cortes-Acosta against Ante Delija was one for the ages if thought about.<\/p>\n

This heavyweight tussle had a little bit of everything, including a finish that nobody could have seen coming when the fight started just before 9 pm ET Saturday evening. Fights in the heavyweight division are, by nature, supposed to bring the excitement to the fans.<\/p>\n

Cortes-Acosta Receives Well-Earned $50K Cash Advance at Post-Fight Press Conference<\/p>\n

During Saturday night\u2019s UFC Vegas 110 post-fight press conference, it was revealed that Waldo Cortes-Acosta would be among those winners to receive $50,000 (USD) in bonus money, with Cortes-Acosta\u2019s bonus coming for the Performance of the Night Award.<\/p>\n

After the fight, Waldo Cortes-Acosta spoke with UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier on the telecast of UFC Vegas 110, discussing his reaction to the eye poke.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt that finger did go inside my eye,\u201d Cortes-Acosta began. \u201cThe referee said to stop [the fight], but I decided to continue because I felt like I could continue. My eyes were like [at] 20 percent vision. I said \u201cI don\u2019t give a (censored).\u201d<\/p>\n

Cortes-Acosta used his airtime on Saturday night to challenge Tom Aspinall to a fight. UFC Vegas 110 happened one week after Aspinall\u2019s initial defense of the UFC Heavyweight Championship ended on a sour note.<\/p>\n

A week ago Saturday in UFC 321, Aspinall suffered an eye poke of his own from challenger Ciryl Gane\u00a0<\/a>in the main event of the evening, resulting in the title fight being ruled a no-contest. Seven days later, another eye poke occurred inside the cage. Unlike last week, Saturday night produced a definitive winner.<\/p>\n

Final Thoughts<\/p>\n

While Waldo Cortes-Acosta may or may not get his wish to fight Tom Aspinall in a future contest, there is one certainty about his performance inside the cage this weekend: The No. 6 contender at heavyweight took part in what may end up being the wildest fight of 2025.<\/p>\n

With only five shows left from MMA\u2019s top promotion after UFC Vegas 110 on Saturday, this performance from Waldo Cortes-Acosta will be most difficult to top for fight of the year. Unless, and perhaps until, something even wilder takes place inside the cage in the remaining shows, what we saw this weekend takes the cake for craziness in the UFC in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waldo Cortes-Acosta entered this past weekend\u2019s UFC Vegas 110 at the UFC Apex facility at No. 6 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-256221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}