Las Vegas — Heavyweight Waldo Cortes-Acosta picked up a big finish win of Derrick Lewis at UFC 324, and had his next callout locked and loaded.
And the second-round TKO, WCA set his sights on Curtis Blaydes, a stud wrestler who he accused to trash talking him online.
Where and when does Cortes-Acosta want that bout? “I don’t care where they put me in there,” stated “Salsa Boy,” speaking with media outlets including Cageside Press during Saturday’s UFC 324 post-fight press conference. However, the Dominican star, a former baseball player, added that “I want to fight in Mexico, and I want to rip Curtis Blaydes’ head off in Mexico.”
The UFC returns to Mexico City this March, so the timeline is possible.
Josh Hokit, a Contender Series alum and former NFL player, won the night’s other heavyweight tilt on Saturday, calling out Waldo Cortes-Acosta after his own win. And if Cortes-Acosta didn’t like the trash talk of Blaydes, he almost certainly did not enjoy Hokit calling him a “deadbeat dad” to nine children.
“I’ve seen it, or I did hear it,” Cortes-Acosta said of Hokit’s comments, that were delivered in a gimmicky, pro-wrestling style. “I’ve crossed paths with him in the PI [UFC Performance Institute], and I’ve gone up there, to some of the coaches, and said ‘listen, you want to fight me? I’ll tell you what. Watch what I did, watch what I’ve been doing. Get there, train. Maybe that’s when we’ll cross paths.'”
However, Waldo has a better idea for who Hokit should fight: his training partner and former Bellator MMA heavyweight Tyrell Fortune.
“Tyrell Fortune, one of my training partners, I want to get him an opportunity in the UFC. I said ‘you know what, Tyrell, you come in and beat the crap out of this guy for me.'”
Fortune has won his last three fights, picking up two belts on the regional circuit in the process.
Watch the full UFC 324 post-fight press conference with Waldo Cortes-Acosta above.
