Cortes Acosta headlines against Walker

Sean Brady is out. The UFC pulled his welterweight main event with Gabriel Bonfim after Brady was injured. Waldo Cortes Acosta meets Johnny Walker in the new main event of UFC Fight Night at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday, November 7. Prelims are listed for 5 p.m. Eastern, the main card for 8.

The matchups

Cortes Acosta is ranked sixth at heavyweight. The filed record is 17-4. He is 35. This is his first UFC main event. He has lost two in a row, both unanimous decisions, to Curtis Blaydes on September 12 and Alexander Volkov on May 9. Before that he stopped Derrick Lewis in the second round.

Walker is ranked twelfth. The filed record is 23-10, with one no contest. He is 34. He is unbeaten at heavyweight. On October 3 he knocked out Mick Parkin with a knee at 3:35 of the first round, in his heavyweight debut at UFC 332. The fight before that was a split decision loss to Dominick Reyes at light heavyweight on April 11.

The co-main is at women’s strawweight: Tatiana Suarez (13-1), ranked second, against Virna Jandiroba (23-4), ranked third. Strawweight is 115 pounds. Heavyweight is 265 pounds.

The rest of the main card, in the order the UFC posted it: Davey Grant vs. Elijah Smith, Seokhyeon Ko vs. Wellington Turman, Billy Elekana vs. Lucas Fernando, and Mantas Kondratavičius vs. Andre Petroski.

Start times

The United States is on standard time. London is on Greenwich Mean Time. Sydney is on daylight time, eleven hours ahead of UTC.

Prelims at 5 p.m. Eastern, main card at 8:

• Las Vegas: 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
• London: 10 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday
• Sydney: 9 a.m. and noon Sunday

8 p.m. Eastern is when the main card is listed to start, not the main event. Five fights come before the headliner, and cards often run long. In Las Vegas, 5 p.m. is the main card, not the first bell of Cortes Acosta vs. Walker. A Pacific-time listing is eight hours behind London.

The broadcast channel is on the official card.