Las Vegas – Heavyweight Waldo Cortes-Acosta picked up a big finish win over Derrick Lewis at UFC 324, and his next callout was locked and loaded.
And during the second-round TKO, WCA set its sights on Curtis Blaydes, a stud wrestler he accused of talking him out online.
Where and when does Cortes-Acosta want that fight? “I don’t care where they put me there,” said “Salsa Boy,” speaking to media outlets including Cageside Press during the UFC 324 post-fight press conference Saturday. However, the Dominican star, a former baseball player, added: “I want to fight in Mexico, and I want to rip Curtis Blaydes’ head off in Mexico.”
The UFC returns to Mexico City in March, so the timeline is possible.
Josh Hokit, a Contender Series alum and former NFL player, won the night’s other heavyweight title on Saturday, shouts Waldo Cortes-Acosta after his own victory. And even though Cortes-Acosta didn’t like Blaydes’ trash talk, he almost certainly didn’t like Hokit calling him an “unbeatable father” to nine children.
“I saw it, or I heard it,” Cortes-Acosta said of Hokit’s comments, which were delivered in a gimmicky, pro-wrestling style. ‘I met him at the PI [UFC Performance Institute]and I went there to some coaches and said, ‘Listen, do you want to fight me? I’ll tell you what. Look what I did, look what I did. Go there, train. Maybe then our paths will cross.’”
However, Waldo has a better idea of who Hokit should fight: his training partner and former Bellator MMA heavyweight Tyrell Fortune.
“Tyrell Fortune, one of my training partners, I want to give him a shot in the UFC. I said, ‘You know what, Tyrell, come in and beat this guy up for me.’”
Fortune has won his last three fights, capturing two titles on the regional circuit.
Watch the full UFC 324 post-fight press conference with Waldo Cortes-Acosta above.
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