Waldo Cortes-Acosta
78″ reach · +2.64% reach advantage · 33rd percentile
17–3
Waldo Cortes-Acosta has a reach of 78″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +2.64%, short for heavyweight MMA and the 33rd percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Waldo Cortes-Acosta — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-29. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 140 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | L | Alexander Volkov | Decision | 3 |
| 2026 | W | Derrick Lewis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2025 | W | Shamil Gaziev | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2025 | W | Ante Delija | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2025 | L | Sergei Pavlovich | Decision | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Serghei Spivac | Decision | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Ryan Spann | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2024 | W | Robelis Despaigne | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Andrei Arlovski | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | W | Łukasz Brzeski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2023 | L | Marcos Rogério de Lima | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Chase Sherman | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Jared Vanderaa | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Danilo Suzart | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | W | Thomas Petersen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Derrick Weaver | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2021 | W | Muhammed DeReese | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | W | Jordan Powell | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | W | Edison Lopes | Submission | 1 |
| 2021 | L | Sonny Conto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2020 | W | Daviante Jones | Decision | 4 |
| 2020 | L | Kingsley Ibeh | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2019 | W | Kingsley Ibeh | Decision | 4 |
| 2019 | W | Chad Davis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Dale Sopi | Decision | 4 |
| 2018 | W | Odell Pantin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2018 | L | Dante Stone | Decision | 4 |
| 2017 | W | Ruben Rivera | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Adam Stewart | KO/TKO | 1 |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Waldo Cortes-Acosta — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.64%
78″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 78″ (198.1 cm) | 54th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 68th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2020s — 22 of 29 dated bouts | |
| Country | Dominican Republic |
Record
MMA record
17–3
20 bouts on record
Finish rate
59%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 11th percentile
The career, bout by bout
29 recorded bouts from 2017 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
2017–2026
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2022
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
29
29 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Waldo Cortes-Acosta competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 17 | 3 | 9 |
| Boxing | 6 | 4 | 3 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Dillian Whyte+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Marek Bujło+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Chase Sherman+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Aleksandar Rakić+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Tommy Morrison+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Gian Villante+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Gabriel Gonzaga+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Alexander Gustafsson+2.61% 79″ reach · 32nd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Waldo Cortes-Acosta's record?
- 17–3 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 29 bouts individually.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Cortes-Acosta sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2020s MMA22 of these bouts fall in the 2020s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
268 FIGHTERS Andrei Arlovski vs Waldo Cortes-AcostaA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2024 Longest unbeaten runsWaldo Cortes-Acosta went 6 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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