Mike Malott is getting another shot at being a headliner on home soil.<\/p>\n
Malott, 34, will feature in the main event against Joaquin Buckley at UFC Fight Night in Edmonton on Oct. 17, the UFC announced on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The co-main event at Rogers Place will feature Ontario\u2019s Jasmine Jasudavicius taking on Erin Blanchfield in a bout that was moved from August\u2019s UFC 330.<\/p>\n
Malott is coming off the biggest win of his mixed martial arts career when he stopped Gilbert Burns via technical knockout in the featured bout of a UFC Fight Night event in Winnipeg in April.<\/p>\n
The Canadian welterweight from Burlington, Ont., improved to 7-1 in the UFC with the win, his fourth in a row.<\/p>\n
The win in Winnipeg was Malott\u2019s first UFC main event spotlight and he became the first Canadian fighter to headline a UFC event in Canada since Rory MacDonald in 2016. Malott joined MacDonald and Georges St-Pierre as the only Canadian fighters in UFC history to be in the main event of a Canadian card.<\/p>\n
Blanchfield withdrew from the UFC 330 flyweight bout against Canada’s Jasudavicius because of an injury. From St. Catharines, Ont., Jasudavicius, 37, has a record of 15-4-0. Blanchfield, 27 and from Elmwood Park, N.J., is 14-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Malott is getting another shot at being a headliner on home soil. Malott, 34, will feature in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-832345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832345","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=832345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}