Waldo Cortes-Acosta accused Tom Aspinall of being a quitter.
Whereas Steve Garcia notched his seventh straight win inside the Octagon at UFC Vegas 110, it was Cortes-Acosta who stole the present. After struggling an unintentional eye poke perpetrated by opponent Ante Delija, Cortes-Acosta delivered an epic highlight-reel knockout, ending the previous PFL star within the very first spherical.
Only one week earlier, undisputed heavyweight titleholder Tom Aspinall drew the ire of battle followers after he declined to proceed after sustaining an eye poke from Ciryl Gane in the opening round of their UFC 321 headliner.
Aspinall’s insistence that he couldn’t proceed left viewers and fellow fighters pissed off, lots of them criticizing the champ for his perceived lack of combating spirit. Exacerbating the backlash was Cortes-Acosta, who accused the Brit of taking the simple means out throughout an interview with Home of Fight.
Additional aiming to one-up Aspinall, ‘Salsa Boy’ expressed curiosity in competing yet another time earlier than 2025 involves an in depth. If he will get his want, that will put him at 5 fights in a calendar yr, becoming a member of Neil Magny, who achieved the feat in 2015, and Kevin Holland, who fought and gained 5 instances in 2020.
“I wanna battle final card of the yr,” he wrote on X. “Dec thirteenth @ufc @UFCEspanol I’m going to the physician (to) get clear and get again. I wanna do 5 fights this yr @danawhite @Mickmaynard2.”
Cortes-Acosta improved his general report contained in the Octagon to 8-2. At present, he’s sitting because the sixth-ranked contender within the heavyweight division, placing him doubtlessly one large win away from his first crack at undisputed gold.
