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Waldo Cortes Acosta

Salsa Boy
17-3-0
34y·6' 4"·78" reach·Orthodox
1:25
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.71
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
55%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.8
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

Tells

Non-traditional predictors we've tested against the record. Only the ones that fire on this fighter show up here.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in August 2025, 132 head strikes before that night. Never-yet-stopped fighters carrying that kind of mileage took a first KO in 11.0% of fights; the lightest third ran 15.6%.

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Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 13 recorded bouts, 759 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 71%Body 15%Legs 14%
Position
Distance 88%Clinch 3%Ground 9%
And how often each lands
Head43%
Body69%
Legs80%
Distance47%
Clinch59%
Ground60%

How fights end

UFC bouts only, so these will not add up to the record above. Counts rather than rates: two knockouts in three wins is not a 67% finisher.

11Wins6 KO · 5 DEC
3Losses3 DEC

Control, bout by bout

Seconds spent controlling the opponent in each fight, oldest on the left. UFCStats records this per bout and never adds it up; this is what that looks like added up.

0%
Vanderaa
1%
Sherman
4%
Lima
1%
Brzeski
0%
Arlovski
65%
Despaigne
10%
Spann
0%
Spivac
0%
Pavlovich
41%
Delija
10%
Gaziev
6%
Lewis
0%
Volkov

As the fight goes on

Which measure to show

Significant strikes landed, per minute fought. Every round is measured against round one, except rounds reached by fewer than 3 bouts, which are dimmed and left uncompared.

Landed / minvs R1Bouts
R13.78100%13
R26.31167%10
R35.88155%8

Only fights that reached a round count towards it, so later rounds are a smaller sample.

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min5.34
Strikes absorbed / min3.63
Striking accuracyof everything thrown48%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed54%
Takedowns / 15 min0.4
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land50%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed73%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.1
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together8.97
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 13 bouts11.3m

Earned Accuracy

How hard the opponents on this record were to hit at distance, and whether they beat it. Distance strikes only, so nobody gets credit for accuracy they picked up hammering someone already flat on the floor.

47.4%
Landed at range
1,410 thrown over 13 bouts
44.9%
Expected
against these opponents
+2.5pp
Gap
above expected
89.1%
Coverage
from real records
The fine print

Distance strikes only

Nothing thrown in the clinch or on the ground counts. Those land at about 72% and 71%, against 44% at distance, so a blended accuracy mostly measures where a fight happened. Rank the sport that way and its best strikers are all wrestlers.

One pass, not a rating

How much each opponent lets through is taken raw. It isn't adjusted for who they fought, so a fighter whose opponents all had soft schedules comes out looking better here than they are. Running it to convergence is a later job.

Coverage, and who gets ranked

Coverage is how much of the expected number came from the opponents' own records instead of the division average. Under 65% it's mostly the division talking, so the comparison gets hidden. Same for anyone under 5 qualifying bouts, or under 300 distance strikes of their own, which is where an accuracy still moves on a single exchange. Miss any of the three and you'll see what they landed, nothing else, and they stay out of any ranking.

Short records get pulled to the middle

An opponent who hasn't been shot at much gets dragged toward their division's average, and the drag fades as their record fills in. At 60 distance strikes faced, their own record and the division average count for the same.

Bout log

LAlexander VolkovMay 2026U-DEC0:01 ctrl54 str0 td
Significant strikes
54 of 130 · 42%
Total strikes
54 of 130 · 42%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:01
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 56%Body 11%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 98%Clinch 2%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WDerrick LewisJan 2026KO R20:28 ctrl44 str1 td
Significant strikes
44 of 62 · 71%
Total strikes
46 of 64 · 72%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:28
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:14
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 80%Body 11%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 61%Clinch 2%Ground 36%
This fight on UFCStats
WShamil GazievNov 2025KO R10:08 ctrl10 str0 td
Significant strikes
10 of 21 · 48%
Total strikes
15 of 26 · 58%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:08
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:22
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 80%Body 10%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 90%Clinch 0%Ground 10%
This fight on UFCStats
WAnte DelijaNov 2025KO R11:37 ctrl12 str0 td
Significant strikes
12 of 17 · 71%
Total strikes
18 of 24 · 75%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:37
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:59
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 75%Body 17%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 33%Clinch 17%Ground 50%
This fight on UFCStats
LSergei PavlovichAug 2025U-DEC0:00 ctrl45 str0 td
Significant strikes
45 of 117 · 38%
Total strikes
45 of 117 · 38%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 60%Body 9%Legs 31%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WSerghei SpivacJun 2025U-DEC0:00 ctrl110 str0 td
Significant strikes
110 of 235 · 47%
Total strikes
111 of 236 · 47%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 15%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 5%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WRyan SpannMar 2025KO R20:57 ctrl66 str0 td
Significant strikes
66 of 111 · 59%
Total strikes
77 of 123 · 63%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:57
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:48
Punches to Head From Guard
Target
Head 85%Body 6%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 2%Ground 9%
This fight on UFCStats
WRobelis DespaigneMay 2024U-DEC9:49 ctrl52 str3 td
Significant strikes
52 of 101 · 51%
Total strikes
130 of 204 · 64%
Takedowns
3 of 4 · 75%
Control
9:49
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 85%Body 0%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 29%Clinch 0%Ground 71%
This fight on UFCStats
WAndrei ArlovskiJan 2024U-DEC0:00 ctrl49 str0 td
Significant strikes
49 of 136 · 36%
Total strikes
50 of 137 · 36%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 49%Body 22%Legs 29%
Position
Distance 94%Clinch 6%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WLukasz BrzeskiAug 2023KO R10:01 ctrl15 str0 td
Significant strikes
15 of 45 · 33%
Total strikes
16 of 46 · 35%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:01
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:01
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 60%Body 20%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 20%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LMarcos Rogerio de LimaApr 2023U-DEC0:34 ctrl82 str0 td
Significant strikes
82 of 150 · 55%
Total strikes
88 of 156 · 56%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:34
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 66%Body 22%Legs 12%
Position
Distance 96%Clinch 4%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WChase ShermanNov 2022U-DEC0:13 ctrl147 str0 td
Significant strikes
147 of 278 · 53%
Total strikes
149 of 282 · 53%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:13
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 84%Body 12%Legs 4%
Position
Distance 97%Clinch 3%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJared VanderaaOct 2022U-DEC0:03 ctrl73 str0 td
Significant strikes
73 of 158 · 46%
Total strikes
73 of 158 · 46%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:03
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 56%Body 36%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

Showing 13 of the 14 bouts on record. The rest have not been read yet.

Numbers from UFCStats. Control time and strike placement are summed from each bout, everything else is as published.