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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento · Waldo Cortes Acosta vs Robelis Despaigne
From the tape · 11 May 2024

Waldo Cortes Acosta vs Robelis Despaigne

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Result

Waldo Cortes Acosta beat Robelis Despaigne

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Josh Stewart

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
Blue corner RobelisDespaigne“The Big Boy”MMA Temple · Santiago de Cuba
Heavyweight3 rounds11 May 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Acosta.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Despaigne.
17-3
Record
5-2
−3 yr32
Age
35
6' 4"
Height
+3″6' 7"
78″
Reach
+6″84″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
1/425% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Ultimate Kombat Fitness
Gym
MMA Temple
Fundacion, Barahona
From
Santiago de Cuba
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 action1 sub attempt
Waldo Cortes Acosta6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
Robelis Despaigne2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
6 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:32
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Acosta firstTravis Buesking10–9David Huyette10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Waldo Cortes Acosta25 sig landed
HEAD88%22 of 51BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%3 of 3
Robelis Despaigne13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 21BODY15%2 of 3LEGS31%4 of 4
25 of 54
Sig.
strikes
13 of 28
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:44
Control
0:19
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Acosta firstTravis Buesking10–9David Huyette10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Waldo Cortes Acosta21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 32BODY0%0 landedLEGS19%4 of 5
Robelis Despaigne11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS82%9 of 9
21 of 37
Sig.
strikes
11 of 17
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:33
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Acosta firstTravis Buesking10–9David Huyette10–9Chris Lee10–8

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 · Josh Stewart
Waldo Cortes AcostaRobelis Despaigne
Official totals — Waldo Cortes Acosta first
JudgeTotal
Travis Buesking30–27
David Huyette30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–26

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 — 16 scored, Waldo Cortes Acosta first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Cageside Press30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press30–27
Tim Wheaton CombatPress.com30–27
Matthew Woolfall Sports Illustrated30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com30–27
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AUncensored.com29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Cortes-Acosta · 80%30-26 Cortes-Acosta · 10%29-28 Cortes-Acosta · 5%30-27 Despaigne · 2%30-25 Cortes-Acosta · 2%

60 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
0.00 / 15m
0.80 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
50%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Robelis Despaigne

0.00takedowns / 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↑ +5.5pp
open 25.6%close 31.1%
Robelis Despaigne↓ −5.5pp
open 74.4%close 68.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Waldo Cortes Acosta opened at 25.6% and closed at 31.1% (+5.5pp), with Robelis Despaigne 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 Acosta27520925.6%31.1%+5.5pp
Robelis Despaigne-345-25374.4%68.9%−5.5pp
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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