{"id":431676,"date":"2026-01-25T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431676\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:17:09","slug":"ufc-324-highlights-waldo-cortes-acosta-pummels-an-exhausted-derrick-lewis-for-vicious-tko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431676\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324 highlights! Waldo Cortes-Acosta pummels an exhausted Derrick Lewis for vicious TKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Waldo Cortes-Acosta scored the biggest win of his career earlier tonight (Sat., Jan. 24, 2026) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/406095\/ufc-324-fight-card-start-time-date-location-gaethje-vs-pimblett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 324<\/a> LIVE on <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=SBNation&amp;subId2=UFC324&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2F%3Fcbscidmt%3Dufc&amp;partnerpropertyid=7032191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a> from inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, stopping UFC heavyweight contender Derrick Lewis with a brutal second-round TKO (elbows and punches).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cortes-Acosta came into Saturday\u2019s matchup with \u201cBlack Beast\u201d having won his previous two fights via first-round knockout. Lewis is the all-time UFC knockout leader and coming off his own two-fight knockout streak so fights figured this heavyweight clash would produce a finish. They weren\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lewis, who turns 41 next month, looked sluggish from the opening bell. Cortes-Acosta moved around the cage and utilized his speed to pepper Lewis and stay out of harm\u2019s way. All Lewis was able to do is load up his punches and hope for a Hail Mary shot. Sometimes that\u2019s all Lewis needs, but against a patient and quicker striker like Cortes-Acosta \u201cBlack Beast\u201d ultimately met his demise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lewis was pretty tired at one point and ended up slipping onto the canvas. Once he touched the mat he looked completely out of it. Cortes-Acosta quickly rushed in and unloaded heavy elbows and punches to eventually force the referee\u2019s hand and earn the standout TKO finish (his third in a row).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the video highlights below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC 324 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/414187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waldo Cortes-Acosta scored the biggest win of his career earlier tonight (Sat., Jan. 24, 2026) at UFC 324&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,153471,139445,702,7788,9468],"class_list":["post-431676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-324","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results","tag-ufc-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431676","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=431676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}