UFC FIGHT NIGHT: Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs Johnny Walker Preview & Prediction

UFC FIGHT NIGHT®: Waldo Cortes-Acosta takes on Johnny Walker. takes place Saturday, November 7 in Las Vegas at Meta APEX. The prelims will air at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT, followed by the main card airing at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. All bouts will stream live on Paramount+.

A welterweight bout between former LFA Welterweight Champion Gabriel Bonfim and Sean Brady was scheduled to headline the event. However, on October 29, Brady withdrew due to a staph infection in his knee, resulting in the cancellation of the bout.^[In turn, a non-scheduled heavyweight bout between former LFA Heavyweight Champion Waldo Cortes-Acosta and Johnny Walker was subsequently booked as the event’s new headliner.

• No. 2 ranked women’s strawweight Tatiana Suarez (13-1, fighting out of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) takes on No. 3 Virna Jandiroba (23-4, fighting out of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil)
• Mantas Kondratavicius (9-1, fighting out of Kaunas, Lithuania) takes on Wes Schultz (9-4, fighting out of Milwaukee, Wis.) at middleweight in a battle of Dana White’s Contender Series signees
• A battle of lightweights features Billy Elekana (10-2, fighting out of Las Vegas, Nev.) and Lucas Fernando (14-3, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Austin Bashi (14-2, fighting out of West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Lucas Brennan (11-3, fighting out of Las Vegas, Nev.) meet in a featherweight bout
• No. 11 ranked women’s flyweight Karine Silva (19-7, fighting out of Curitiba, Brazil) squares off against No. 14 Gabriella Fernandes (11-4, fighting out of Miami, Fla. by way of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
• Priscila Cachoeira (13-9, fighting out of Bangu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and recent UFC debutant Nina Milošević (9-1, fighting out of Belgrade, Serbia) lock horns at women’s bantamweight
• A featherweight bout features Road to UFC Season 4 winner Keiichiro Nakamura (8-1, fighting out of Hokkaido, Japan) and Ollie Schmid (4-3, fighting out of Auckland, New Zealand)
• Seokhyeon Ko (13-3, fighting out of Busan, South Korea) takes on Wellington Turman (18-8, fighting out of Curitiba, Brazil) at welterweight
• Jonny Parsons (9-3, fighting out of Las Vegas, Nev.) returns to the octagon for the first time since 2023 and faces José Souza (9-1, fighting out of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil) in a welterweight bout
• A bantamweight bout features Davey Grant (18-8, fighting out of Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England) and Dana White’s Contender Series signee Elijah Smith (10-1, fighting out of Colorado Springs, Colo.)
• Featherweights José Delano (17-3, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and undefeated Murtazali Magomedov (11-0, fighting out of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) meet in a battle of Dana White’s Contender Series signees
• A heavyweight bout pits recent Dana White’s Contender Series signee Gabriel Lorenço (8-1, fighting out of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) against Alvin Hines (7-2, fighting out of Grand Rapids, Minn.)

Pick Six Predictions per Vince McKee ( 8-1 last week )

Vince Picks –

Heavyweight: Waldo Cortes-Acosta   over Johnny Walker

Bantamweight: Elijah Smith over Davey Grant

Welterweight: Ko Seok-hyeon over Wellington Turman

Middleweight: Mantas Kondratavičius over Andre Petroski

Featherweight: Keiichiro Nakamura over Ollie Schmid

Women’s Bantamweight: Nina Nikolija Milošević over Priscila Cachoeira