Cortes-Acosta vs. Walker Elevated to Headline UFC Vegas 124 After Brady Withdrawal
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UFC Fight Night 293 has a new main event, and it came together late. Sean Brady was scheduled to meet Gabriel Bonfim in a welterweight headliner on Nov. 7 at the Meta Apex in Enterprise, Nevada. On Oct. 29, Brady withdrew due to a staph infection in his knee, and the bout was canceled. The UFC then booked a heavyweight fight that had not originally been scheduled — Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs. Johnny Walker — as the event’s new headliner.
That makes UFC Vegas 124, also known as UFC Fight Night 293, a card defined by adjustment. The original main event is gone, a heavyweight bout has been elevated into the top slot, and a women’s strawweight co-main event with real division implications now sits underneath it. For fans, the appeal is straightforward: a reshuffled main event, a consequential co-main, and a lineup that has been altered repeatedly in the final weeks.
The original plan was a welterweight bout between Gabriel Bonfim, a former LFA Welterweight Champion, and Sean Brady. Brady’s staph infection in his knee forced him out on Oct. 29, and the bout was canceled rather than rescheduled for this card. Bonfim does not appear on the finalized lineup.