Cortes Acosta headlines against Walker

Waldo Cortes Acosta headlines against Johnny Walker on Saturday, November 7, at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. This is Cortes Acosta’s first UFC main event. The UFC pulled Sean Brady’s welterweight main event with Gabriel Bonfim after Brady was injured. The injury was a staph infection, and Walker took the bout on short notice.

The matchups

Cortes Acosta is ranked sixth at heavyweight. Cortes Acosta is 35 and 17-4, and he has lost two in a row, both unanimous decisions, to Curtis Blaydes on September 12 and Alexander Volkov on May 9. Before that he stopped Derrick Lewis by TKO at 3:14 of the second round at UFC 324 on January 24, and Cortes Acosta has not been finished.

Johnny Walker is ranked twelfth. Johnny Walker is 34 and 23-10, with one no contest, and he is unbeaten at heavyweight. On October 3 he knocked out Mick Parkin with a knee at 3:35 of the first round, in his heavyweight debut at UFC 332, and Dominick Reyes beat Johnny Walker by split decision at light heavyweight on April 11.

The co-main is at women’s strawweight. Tatiana Suarez is 13-1 and ranked second, and Virna Jandiroba is 23-4 and ranked third. Strawweight is 115 pounds (52 kg), and heavyweight is 265 pounds (120 kg). Suarez fought Zhang Weili for the title at the start of 2025, and Suarez beat Amanda Lemos by decision last September and submitted Loopy Godinez with a rear-naked choke at 2:29 of the second round at UFC 327 on April 11. Jandiroba is 38. She lost a decision to Mackenzie Dern for the vacant title last October in Abu Dhabi, then beat Tabatha Ricci by unanimous decision at 5:00 of the third round on April 4, 2026.

The rest of the main card, in the order the UFC posted it: Davey Grant vs. Elijah Smith, Seokhyeon Ko vs. Wellington Turman, Billy Elekana vs. Lucas Fernando, and Mantas Kondratavičius vs. Andre Petroski.

The prelims, in the order the UFC posted them: Gabriel Lorenco vs. Thomas Petersen, Karine Silva, ranked No. 11, vs. Gabriella Fernandes, ranked No. 14, Mitch Raposo vs. Marcos Degli, Jose Delano vs. Murtazali Magomedov, Keiichiro Nakamura vs. Ollie Schmid, Austin Bashi vs. Lucas Brennan, Priscila Cachoeira vs. Nina Milosevic, and Jonny Parsons vs. Jose Souza.

Start times

Eastern time is five hours behind UTC, and Sydney is on daylight time, eleven hours ahead of UTC.

Prelims and the main card in Las Vegas:

• Las Vegas: 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
• London: 10 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday
• Sydney: 9 a.m. and noon Sunday

In New York that is 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Eastern. The later clock is the main card, not the first bell of Cortes Acosta vs. Walker. Five fights come before the headliner, and the card streams on Paramount+.