{"id":219001,"date":"2025-10-17T05:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219001\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T05:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:12:18","slug":"ufc-vancouver-delivers-amazing-main-card-oct-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219001\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vancouver Delivers Amazing Main Card Oct. 18!"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC Vancouver fight week continues. Dana White\u2019s promotion travels up north to Canada, specifically, British Columbia for the penultimate show in the month of October this upcoming weekend. Counting Saturday\u2019s card, there are only eight live shows left on the schedule<\/a> before the calendar flips to 2026.

\"\"<\/a>Action begins from Rogers Arena late Saturday afternoon with the undercard<\/a> at 4 pm ET\/ 1 pm PT. Inside the United States, the event can be viewed gavel-to-gavel on ESPN+<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Main card action follows at 7 pm ET\/ 4 pm PT from British Columbia. Absent of any changes to the itinerary for the weekend, the final version of UFC Vancouver will feature a slate of 13 fights from the No. 1 MMA promotion on the planet.<\/p>\n

\"Reinier<\/a>Image Courtesy of ONE Championship.\u00a0
\nUFC Vancouver Main Event: No. 4 Contender Reinier de Ridder vs. No. 8 Contender Brendan Allen<\/p>\n

At the top of the bill on Saturday night\u2019s main card is a critical fight in the middleweight ranks. No. 4 contender and former ONE Middleweight (205 lbs) MMA Champion Reinier de Ridder\u00a0<\/a>(21-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC) meets up with No. 8 contender Brendan Allen\u00a0<\/a>(25-7 MMA, 13-4 UFC.)<\/p>\n

This main event will be an advertised maximum of five rounds at five minutes per round to close out the evening\u2019s activities in UFC Vancouver. RDR enters this, his second main event in succession, having posted a record of 5-0 in his last five fights dating back to July of 2024. Allen was not supposed to be de Ridder\u2019s opponent for UFC Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Initially, he was to have squared off against Anthony Hernandez this weekend. Hernandez needed to bow out of the fight due to injury<\/a> last month, something he addressed on his Instagram page.<\/a><\/p>\n

Back on July 26 on the ABC Television Network,<\/a> RDR took Robert Whittaker to the limit, besting him by unanimous decision after 25 minutes of action. It\u2019s been a short rise to the division\u2019s elite at 185 for de Ridder, and he\u2019s now firmly in the conversation for the UFC Middleweight Championship.<\/p>\n

Can he take the next step toward securing another championship in UFC Vancouver\u2019s main event this coming weekend? Tune in and find out.<\/p>\n

Across the way, Brendan Allen comes into this contest with a 3-2 record over his past five contests. This past summer, he outpaced Marvin Vettori (19-8-1 MMA, 9-7-1 UFC) by way of unanimous decision in New Orleans during UFC 318. Vettori received a $50,000 (USD) cash advance that Saturday evening for the Fight of the Night Award.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s contest will be the 33rd of Allen\u2019s professional career. A victory over RDR this coming weekend would certainly boost his resume.<\/p>\n

UFC Vancouver Co-Main Event: No. 15 Contender Kevin Holland vs. Mike Malott<\/p>\n

Immediately prior to the headliner, the UFC Vancouver co-main event sees action happening at welterweight between No. 15 contender Kevin Holland<\/a> (28-14, 1 NC MMA, 15-11, 1 NC UFC) and Mike Malott<\/a> (12-2-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC.) This is a three-round fight at five minutes per round.<\/p>\n

Holland will be making his 44th career walk to the cage and his 28th under the UFC banner Saturday evening with a record of 2-3 in his last five fights. Last time out, he sustained a unanimous decision defeat at the hands of Daniel Rodriguez (20-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) in UFC 318.<\/p>\n

Kevin Holland has kept himself quite busy in the run-up to UFC Vancouver. This fight serves as the fifth for Holland and his camp in 2025.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a .500 record thus far this year, but as the year nears its end, can he secure a winning record in 2025? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mike Malott has gone 4-1 in the past five contests. At the present time, he\u2019s won two fights in succession.<\/p>\n

This past spring, he stopped Charles Radtke (10-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC) with a second-round knockout during UFC 315 in Montreal, Quebec. This is another \u201chome game\u201d for Malott, so will he deliver another win in front of his countrymen?<\/p>\n

UFC Vancouver: No. 7 Contender Marlon Vera vs. No. 9 Contender Aiemann Zahabi<\/p>\n

Also on the UFC Vancouver main card, you\u2019ll be seeing a bantamweight contest pairing No. 7 contender Marlon Vera<\/a> (23-10-1 MMA, 15-9 UFC) against No. 9 contender Aiemann Zahabi\u00a0<\/a>(13-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC.) \u201cChito\u201d comes into the weekend with a 2-3 record over the course of his last five trips to the cage.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been over 14 months since he last fought, however. In August of last year, he dropped a unanimous decision to Deiveson Figueiredo (25-5-1 MMA, 14-5-1 UFC) during UFC Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Canceled fights have become an issue for the Marlon Vera camp. A planned contest between Vera and Mario Bautista on May 3 in Des Moines was postponed amid the two being rebooked for UFC 316 in Newark, NJ.<\/p>\n

The June 7 rescheduling was itself postponed after Vera sustained an injury. With the pairing of Marlon Vera and Mario Bautista off the table for the time being, \u201cChito\u201d now turns his attention to Zahabi for his first fight in more than a year\u2019s time. How much ring rust does he have going into this one?<\/p>\n

In the other corner, Aiemann Zahabi has a mark of 5-0 in the past five outings. At the moment, he\u2019s won six fights in a row dating back to February of 2021. Most recently, he picked up a unanimous decision victory in Quebec on May 10 against Jose Aldo (32-10 MMA, 14-9 UFC.)<\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve mentioned often in recent months, a fighter who\u2019s on a hot streak is a fighter who\u2019s at his most dangerous. Add to it the fact that Zahabi will be fighting in his home country on Saturday night and this is an important 15 minutes (or less) of action inside the fabled Octagon. Will he win his seventh bout in a row?<\/p>\n

Rest of the Card<\/p>\n

The UFC Vancouver main card will also feature these exciting contests:<\/p>\n

A women\u2019s flyweight bout pairing No. 2 contender Manon Fiorot (12-2 MMA, 7-1 UFC) against No. 5 contender Jasmine Jasudavicius (14-3 MMA, 8-2 UFC,)
\na bantamweight affair between Cody Gibson (21-11 MMA, 3-6 UFC) and Aoriqileng (25-12, 1 NC MMA, 3-4, 1 NC UFC,)
\nand a lightweight bout matching Kyle Nelson (18-6-1 MMA, 4-5-1 UFC) with Matt Frevola (11-5-1 MMA, 5-5-1 UFC.)<\/p>\n

Which fight or fights on the main card are you most eager to see? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n