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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen · Waldo Cortes Acosta vs Jared Vanderaa
From the tape · 29 Oct 2022

Waldo Cortes Acosta vs Jared Vanderaa

UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Waldo Cortes Acosta beat Jared Vanderaa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner Waldo CortesAcosta“Salsa Boy”Ultimate Kombat Fitness · Fundacion, Barahona
VSOn the tape
JV
Blue corner JaredVanderaaRichland, California
Heavyweight3 rounds29 Oct 2022
The story going in
  • Carries 53 points more takedown defence than Vanderaa.
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
17-3
Record
12-10
31
Age
−1 yr30
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
78″
Reach
+2″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Fundacion, Barahona
From
Richland, California
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Waldo Cortes Acosta22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 26BODY41%9 of 12LEGS5%1 of 1
Jared Vanderaa13 sig landed
HEAD8%1 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS92%12 of 12
22 of 39
Sig.
strikes
13 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Acosta firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Waldo Cortes Acosta25 sig landed
HEAD36%9 of 33BODY48%12 of 15LEGS16%4 of 5
Jared Vanderaa21 sig landed
HEAD19%4 of 33BODY19%4 of 4LEGS62%13 of 14
25 of 53
Sig.
strikes
21 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
0:13
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Acosta firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Ron McCarthy10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Waldo Cortes Acosta26 sig landed
HEAD77%20 of 58BODY19%5 of 5LEGS4%1 of 3
Jared Vanderaa22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 35BODY5%1 of 1LEGS64%14 of 15
26 of 66
Sig.
strikes
22 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Acosta firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Tony Weeks10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mark Smith
Waldo Cortes AcostaJared Vanderaa
Official totals — Waldo Cortes Acosta first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 13 scored, Waldo Cortes Acosta first · unofficial

Combat Press.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Jake Noecker BetQL29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Noah Gagnon Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vanderaa · 40%29-28 Cortes-Acosta · 34%30-27 Vanderaa · 14%30-27 Cortes-Acosta · 9%30-29 Vanderaa · 2%

65 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Waldo Cortes Acosta

0.40takedowns / 15 min
0.40 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.18 / 15m
0.80 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.36 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
50%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jared Vanderaa

0.18takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Waldo Cortes Acosta↑ +23.7pp
open 42.0%close 65.8%
Jared Vanderaa↓ −23.7pp
open 58.0%close 34.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Waldo Cortes Acosta opened at 42.0% and closed at 65.8% (+23.7pp), with Jared Vanderaa moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Waldo Cortes Acosta130-21642.0%65.8%+23.7pp
Jared Vanderaa-15018158.0%34.2%−23.7pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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