Built from Waldo Cortes Acosta’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
6'4" orthodox power striker with a 9-2 record, age 34. Standout metric: lands 5.4 significant strikes per minute; hits 50% of takedown attempts. Form: last 5: WWLWW · on a 2-fight win streak · 63 days off · Elo 1576.
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 | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Waldo Cortes Acosta 6×, 6 correct (6-0 — 100% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-24 | Derrick Lewis | UFC Fight Night: Acosta vs Lewis | 72.2% | Correct |
| 2025-11-22 | Shamil Gaziev | UFC Fight Night: Yakhyaev vs Cerqueira | 57.4% | Correct |
| 2025-11-01 | Ante Delija | UFC Fight Night: Ardelean vs Ruiz | 51.4% | Correct |
| 2025-03-15 | Ryan Spann | UFC Fight Night: Duben vs Judice | 58.8% | Correct |
| 2024-01-13 | Andrei Arlovski | UFC Fight Night: Hawes vs Ferreira | 73.7% | Correct |
| 2023-08-26 | Lukasz Brzeski | UFC Fight Night: Tafa vs Porter | 53.2% | Correct |
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.
Pro record: 17-3. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
