{"id":606102,"date":"2026-04-15T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:05:08","slug":"gilbert-burns-vs-mike-malott-in-least-enthusiastic-staredown-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606102\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Burns vs. Mike Malott in least enthusiastic staredown ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC welterweight title challenger Gilbert Burns and streaking 170-pound Canadian bruiser Mike Malott will headline the upcoming UFC Winnipeg MMA event on <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=SBNation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Frecommended%2Fnews%2F1010954%2Fufc-paramount-plus-streaming-deal&amp;subId2=[sb0415awD][431343][][r][][][][][][][google.com]\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a>, locked and loaded for this Sat. night (April 18, 2026) at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fans haven\u2019t been showing much excitement for this weekend\u2019s fight card (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/424874\/latest-ufc-winnipeg-fight-card-paramount-start-time-date-location-burns-vs-malott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">see it here<\/a>) and neither are Burns and Malott, who came face-to-face in the least enthusiastic staredown in recent memory. I guess UFC CEO Dana White isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/414433\/is-dana-white-checked-out-of-ufc-in-2026-he-seems-so-disinterested\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the only one who\u2019s checked out these days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 39 year-old Burns (22-9) is looking to bounce back from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/17\/24432192\/video-highlights-ufc-vegas-106-results-espn-morales-knockout-burns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brutal knockout loss<\/a> to welterweight wunderkind Michael Morales at UFC Vegas 106, his fourth straight loss dating back to early 2023. As for Malott (13-2-1), 34, he\u2019s 6-1 since graduating Dana White\u2019s \u201cContender Series\u201d back in late 2021 and is currently the winner of three straight, including his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/396846\/ufc-vancouver-results-mike-malott-defeats-kevin-holland-amidst-major-nut-shot-controversy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous decision victory over Kevin Holland<\/a> last fall in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To see who else is fighting at UFC Winnipeg click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/424874\/latest-ufc-winnipeg-fight-card-paramount-start-time-date-location-burns-vs-malott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC welterweight title challenger Gilbert Burns and streaking 170-pound Canadian bruiser Mike Malott will headline the upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,702,9468,4454],"class_list":{"0":"post-606102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-on-paramount","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-ufc-videos","17":"tag-upcoming-ufc-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}