{"id":256795,"date":"2025-11-02T13:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256795\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:54:26","slug":"ufc-fight-night-263-results-co-main-ends-in-all-time-crazy-sequence-of-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256795\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night 263 results: Co-main ends in all-time crazy sequence of events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, MMA is stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n

At UFC Fight Night 263<\/a>, there was one of those times \u2013 but perhaps even more so than usual. Waldo Cortes-Acosta defeated Ante Delija by TKO at 3:59 of Round 1, but the sequence of events that led to it were both ironic and bizarre.<\/p>\n

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Exactly one week after his teammate Tom Aspinall<\/a> was the recipient of a high-profile, fight-ending eye poke, Delija (26-7 MMA, 1-1 UFC) gouged Cortes-Acosta (15-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) in mad flurry of punches. Referee Mark Smith dove in, but it was unclear if he was calling the fight a TKO or was calling timeout for the foul.<\/p>\n

As commission and medical officials entered the cage, Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) executive director Jeff Mullen and referee Eric McMahon reviewed the replay and deemed it was an eye poke.<\/p>\n

Cortes-Acosta was allotted time to recover (five minutes from the stoppage) and declared he was ready to fight. Moments after the action resumed, Cortes-Acosta drilled Delija and finished the fight with follow-up punches.<\/p>\n

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After Smith pulled him off, Cortes-Acosta toppled to the canvas clutching his eye.<\/p>\n

Cortes-Acosta reenters the win column after an August loss and moves to 6-1 in his most recent seven. Delija has a two-fight winning streak snapped after a successful professional debut.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Chaos ensues at UFC Apex after Tom Aspinall teammate pokes eye<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes, MMA is stranger than fiction. At UFC Fight Night 263, there was one of those times \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[74418,49,48,119210,641,638,79195,82,1972,36996,119209],"class_list":{"0":"post-256795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ante-delija","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cortes-acosta","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-nevada-athletic-commission","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tom-aspinall","17":"tag-ufc-fight-night","18":"tag-waldo-cortes-acosta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256795","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=256795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}