Built from Waldo Cortes Acosta’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 4" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Heavyweight. 10 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 5 decision. Top 9% of Heavyweights: lands 5.34 significant strikes a minute.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.
| Nickname | Salsa Boy |
| Nationality | Dominican Republic |
| Hometown | Fundacion, Barahona |
| Fighting out of | Ultimate Kombat Fitness |
| Height | 6' 4" |
| Reach | 78.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 34 |
| Date of birth | Oct 03, 1991 |
| Weight | 260 lbs. |
| Pro record | 17-3 |
| Finish split | 10 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 5 decision |
Career averages over Waldo Cortes Acosta’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Waldo Cortes Acosta’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.
FightIQ has called 2 of Waldo Cortes Acosta’s fights in 2026: 2 correct (2–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-09 | Alexander Volkov | Alexander Volkov (against Acosta) | 57.8% | Correct |
| 2026-01-24 | Derrick Lewis | Waldo Cortes Acosta | 72.2% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 9 of Waldo Cortes Acosta’s fights, 7 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
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.
Pro record: 17-3. In the UFC: 10-3. Waldo Cortes Acosta’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-09 | L | Alexander Volkov | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland |
| 2026-01-24 | W | Derrick Lewis | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett |
| 2025-11-22 | W | Shamil Gaziev | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker |
| 2025-11-01 | W | Ante Delija | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama |
| 2025-08-23 | L | Sergei Pavlovich | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang |
| 2025-06-07 | W | Serghei Spivac | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 |
| 2025-03-15 | W | Ryan Spann | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 |
| 2024-05-11 | W | Robelis Despaigne | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento |
| 2024-01-13 | W | Andrei Arlovski | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 |
| 2023-08-26 | W | Lukasz Brzeski | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie |
| 2023-04-29 | L | Marcos Rogerio de Lima | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon |
| 2022-11-19 | W | Chase Sherman | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Nzechukwu vs. Cutelaba |
| 2022-10-29 | W | Jared Vanderaa | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
