UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker runs Saturday, November 7, 2026 at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, a 13-fight card now headlined by No. 6-ranked heavyweight Waldo Cortes Acosta against Johnny Walker. This was supposed to be Sean Brady vs. Gabriel Bonfim at welterweight until Brady pulled out injured on October 29, nine days before the event, and the UFC replaced it with a heavyweight fight between two big punchers. Cortes Acosta needs a win to snap a two-fight skid. Walker, five weeks removed from a knee knockout in his first UFC fight at heavyweight, gets a shot at a top-10 name. Under them sits a strawweight fight between No. 2 Tatiana Suarez and No. 3 Virna Jandiroba that could decide the next title challenger. Here is the complete card bout by bout, every start time, the main event breakdown, and where the BettorEdge community board stands.
Cortes Acosta vs. Walker fight card: who is fighting on November 7
Thirteen bouts across two segments. Card as of November 3, and it is not final until the fighters make weight on Friday. It has already changed four times. The original Brady vs. Bonfim headliner is gone, and Bonfim is expected to be rebooked on a later card. Andre Petroski replaced Wesley Schultz against Mantas Kondratavicius. Thomas Petersen replaced Alvin Hines, who withdrew with vertigo, against Gabriel Lorenco. Lucas Brennan tore his ACL and is out of his featherweight fight with Austin Bashi, and no replacement opponent had been announced as of November 3. The order below matches the UFC's own event page, cross-checked against Wikipedia and Cageside Press.
Main card
| Bout | Weight class |
|---|---|
| Waldo Cortes Acosta vs. Johnny Walker | Heavyweight (main event) |
| Tatiana Suarez vs. Virna Jandiroba | Women's strawweight |
| Davey Grant vs. Elijah Smith | Bantamweight |
| Seokhyeon Ko vs. Wellington Turman | Welterweight |
| Billy Elekana vs. Lucas Fernando | Light heavyweight |
| Mantas Kondratavicius vs. Andre Petroski | Middleweight |
Prelims
| Bout | Weight class |
|---|---|
| Gabriel Lorenco vs. Thomas Petersen | Heavyweight |
| Karine Silva vs. Gabriella Fernandes | Women's flyweight |
| Mitch Raposo vs. Marcos Degli | Flyweight |
| Jose Delano vs. Murtazali Magomedov | Featherweight |
| Keiichiro Nakamura vs. Ollie Schmid | Featherweight |
| Priscila Cachoeira vs. Nina Milosevic | Women's bantamweight |
| Jonny Parsons vs. Jose Souza | Welterweight |
There is no separate early prelims block on this card as of November 3. The UFC event page still showed Austin Bashi vs. Lucas Brennan among the prelims on Tuesday, but Brennan's withdrawal has been reported by multiple outlets, so that bout is left off the list above. If the UFC finds Bashi a new opponent before Friday, the prelims go back to eight fights.
How to watch UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker
Event: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker (UFC Vegas 124, also listed as UFC Fight Night 293)
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2026
Venue: Meta Apex, Las Vegas, Nevada
Prelims: 5 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. CT, 2 p.m. PT
Main card: 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 5 p.m. PT
Watch: the full card streams on Paramount+ in the United States
Both segments stream on Paramount+, which holds the UFC's United States rights in 2026, and a Fight Night carries no pay-per-view charge. Clocks fell back on November 1, so these are standard-time windows. The Apex is the UFC's studio room, with a smaller cage than the arena shows, and a smaller cage is not where you want to stand with two heavyweights who both finish people. With six bouts on the main card, the main event walk should land somewhere after 10:30 p.m. ET, 7:30 p.m. PT, depending on how many fights end early.
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Cortes Acosta vs. Walker: the main event breakdown
Waldo Cortes Acosta (17-4) is 35, from Barahona in the Dominican Republic, and came to fighting late. He played professional baseball until an elbow injury ended that career, turned to combat sports in his mid-twenties, and earned his UFC contract with a first-round TKO on Dana White's Contender Series in 2022. His 2025 was the best run of his career: a knockout of Ryan Spann, a decision over Serghei Spivac, a decision loss to Sergei Pavlovich, and then two first-round knockouts three weeks apart, over Ante Delija and Shamil Gaziev. He opened 2026 by stopping Derrick Lewis in the second round at UFC 324, the fight in the video above. Since then he has lost two straight decisions, to Alexander Volkov at UFC 328 in May and to Curtis Blaydes at Noche UFC in September. He is ranked No. 6 in the UFC's heavyweight rankings.
Johnny Walker (23-10, 1 NC) is 34, from Belford Roxo in Brazil, and trains at SBG Ireland. He spent most of his UFC career at light heavyweight, where he was a ranked contender and a highlight-reel finisher. Per his UFC profile, 18 of his 23 wins came by knockout. The last few years have been uneven. He was knocked out by Magomed Ankalaev in January 2024 and by Volkan Oezdemir in June 2024, stopped Zhang Mingyang in the second round in August 2025, and dropped a split decision to Dominick Reyes at UFC 327 in April. He moved up to heavyweight for UFC 332 on October 3 and knocked out Mick Parkin with a knee in the first round. He is outside the UFC's media top 15 at heavyweight, though he sits No. 12 on the UFC's separate Meta rankings list.
Walker is the bigger man on paper: 6-foot-6 with an 82-inch reach, to Cortes Acosta's 6-foot-4 and 78 inches, per the UFC. That is unusual for a fighter moving up a division, and it means Cortes Acosta will not be able to lean on size. The UFC's career averages, which are the split to read here rather than a fight-by-fight number, have Cortes Acosta landing 5.03 significant strikes per minute to Walker's 3.98, and neither man shoots much: both average under half a takedown per 15 minutes. Reports had the bout booked as a five-round main event, though the UFC had not posted the round count on its event page as of Tuesday.
Cortes Acosta's path. Volume and durability. He throws more than Walker, he has gone three hard rounds with Volkov, Blaydes and Pavlovich without being stopped, and every one of his losses since 2025 went the distance. If the fight turns into a long one, the man with the higher output and the proven heavyweight chin has the edge. He also has a real right hand: Delija, Gaziev and Lewis all went down early.
Walker's path. Make it short. Walker's best version is a finisher who lands something unorthodox, a knee, a spinning shot, a flying strike, in the first few minutes. The Parkin knockout showed that power carries up to heavyweight. The concern is the other side of that ledger: Walker has been knocked out twice since 2024, and heavyweights hit harder than the light heavyweights who did it. Taking this fight on five weeks' rest also means a quick turnaround after a knockout win.
Cortes Acosta has the output and the heavyweight resume. Walker has the reach, the finishing history and a fresh knockout at the weight. Saturday turns on whether Walker can land the big one before the volume starts to pile up.
Cortes Acosta vs. Walker odds: where the community board stands
Straight with you. As of 1:36 p.m. UTC on Tuesday, November 3, the BettorEdge community board had zero priced positions on this card. The main event was only booked on October 29, and nobody had yet posted a live community price on it, on the co-main, or on any of the other main-card and prelim bouts. No number appears below because no number existed when this was written, and BettorEdge does not fill a gap with an invented price.
| Bout | BettorEdge community odds |
|---|---|
| Cortes Acosta vs. Walker | No community price posted |
| Suarez vs. Jandiroba | No community price posted |
| Grant vs. Smith | No community price posted |
| Ko vs. Turman | No community price posted |
| Elekana vs. Fernando | No community price posted |
| Kondratavicius vs. Petroski | No community price posted |
Peer-to-peer fight liquidity tends to arrive late, after weigh-ins clear and the card stops moving, and a short-notice main event is the clearest case of that. When prices do post, convert them before you compare. Run the number through the implied probability calculator and the moneyline calculator, then decide whether your read on the fight beats that percentage. The no-vig calculator strips the built-in margin out of any house board you want to measure against.
What each side asks you to believe
Backing Cortes Acosta asks you to believe the two losses were about the opposition. Volkov and Blaydes are top-five heavyweights with long resumes, and neither could stop him. Walker is newer to the division, and Cortes Acosta's wins over Spivac, Delija and Lewis all came against ranked or formerly ranked heavyweights. If you think the skid says more about who he fought than how he fought, he is the side.
Backing Walker asks you to believe the move up fixed something. The Parkin knockout was one fight, and Parkin is not ranked. Walker's case is that he is still the bigger man at heavyweight, that his power travels, and that the cut down to 205 pounds was costing him. If you think that version of Walker shows up again on short rest, the price will tell you whether the market agrees.
Both cases hold up, which is why the first community price on this fight will be worth watching. The UFC betting guide walks through how to build a read on a matchup like this one.
The underdog and method-of-victory angle
How this fight ends is the more interesting question. Per the UFC, 18 of Walker's 23 wins came by knockout and only two went to the judges. Cortes Acosta's wins split nine knockouts, one submission and seven decisions. Treat those as career splits, not predictions, but they frame the method market: a Walker win almost always looks like a stoppage, while a Cortes Acosta win can come either way. The method of victory guide covers how to bet how a fight ends rather than who wins it.
The co-main could produce the next strawweight title challenger. Tatiana Suarez (13-1) is No. 2 and Virna Jandiroba (23-4) is No. 3 in the UFC's women's strawweight rankings. Suarez's only loss is a decision to Zhang Weili in a title fight at UFC 312, and she has since beaten Amanda Lemos and submitted Loopy Godinez in April. Jandiroba lost a five-round title fight to Mackenzie Dern at UFC 321 in October 2025 and bounced back with a decision over Tabatha Ricci in April. Both are grapplers first: per their UFC profiles, seven of Suarez's wins and 14 of Jandiroba's came by submission. This matchup has been booked before and fell through twice on injury and health issues, so Friday's weigh-in matters here too.
Ranked prelim, short-notice replacements. Karine Silva (No. 11) meets Gabriella Fernandes (No. 14) in a ranked women's flyweight fight on the prelims, per the UFC's event page. Andre Petroski and Thomas Petersen both stepped in as replacements this fall. Late replacements are one of the places a community board most often misprices a fight, in both directions, so wait for a number before forming a view.
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UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker FAQ
Who is fighting at UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker?
Waldo Cortes Acosta fights Johnny Walker in the heavyweight main event, above a main card of Tatiana Suarez vs. Virna Jandiroba, Davey Grant vs. Elijah Smith, Seokhyeon Ko vs. Wellington Turman, Billy Elekana vs. Lucas Fernando, and Mantas Kondratavicius vs. Andre Petroski. The prelims are Gabriel Lorenco vs. Thomas Petersen, Karine Silva vs. Gabriella Fernandes, Mitch Raposo vs. Marcos Degli, Jose Delano vs. Murtazali Magomedov, Keiichiro Nakamura vs. Ollie Schmid, Priscila Cachoeira vs. Nina Milosevic, and Jonny Parsons vs. Jose Souza. That is 13 bouts, as of November 3, 2026.
When is UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker and how can I watch it?
UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker is Saturday, November 7, 2026 at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, streaming on Paramount+ in the United States. Prelims start at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT) and the main card at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT and 5 p.m. PT.
Is Cortes Acosta vs. Walker a ranked fight?
Yes, Waldo Cortes Acosta is ranked No. 6 at heavyweight by the UFC, while Johnny Walker is outside the media top 15 and No. 12 on the UFC's separate Meta rankings list. It is not a title fight, but a Walker win would put him into the heavyweight top 10 conversation in his second fight at the weight.
Why is Sean Brady vs. Gabriel Bonfim not headlining?
Sean Brady withdrew injured on October 29, so the UFC replaced Brady vs. Bonfim with Waldo Cortes Acosta vs. Johnny Walker as the main event. Bonfim is expected to be rebooked on a future card.
What time is the Cortes Acosta vs. Walker main event?
The main card starts at 8 p.m. ET and Cortes Acosta vs. Walker is the last of six bouts on it, so the walk typically lands after 10:30 p.m. ET, or 7:30 p.m. PT. The exact time depends on how many earlier fights end inside the distance.
What are the odds for Cortes Acosta vs. Walker?
As of 1:36 p.m. UTC on November 3, 2026, the BettorEdge community board had no price posted on Cortes Acosta vs. Walker or any other bout on the card. Community fight liquidity typically fills in once weigh-ins clear, so check the live board closer to Saturday.
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The bottom line
Cortes Acosta vs. Walker is a short-notice heavyweight fight that turns on one question: can Walker land early? Cortes Acosta has the output, the No. 6 ranking and a record of going the distance with the best in the division. Walker has the size, the reach and 18 career knockouts, plus a fresh one at heavyweight. Suarez vs. Jandiroba carries title stakes at strawweight, Silva vs. Fernandes is ranked on the prelims, and two replacements and a missing opponent make the undercard worth rechecking on Friday. Thirteen fights, two segments, a new headliner, and a community board that has not priced a bout yet. Watch the weigh-ins, then watch the prices.
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