The UFC Fight Night card in Edmonton will feature a memorable Canadian debut. <\/p>\n
Louis Jourdain, brother of current UFC bantamweight Charles Jourdain, will make his UFC debut against Timmy Cuamba at the October event.<\/p>\n
The Beloeil, Que., native had been competing in the Dana White Contender Series and other MMA promotions before getting his chance to follow in his brother’s footsteps. <\/p>\n
The 29-year-old has a 9-3 professional record. <\/p>\n
He joins Mike Malott and Jasmine Jasudavicius as Canadians participating in the event at UFC Fight Night\u00a0on Oct. 17. <\/p>\n
This will be the fourth time Edmonton has hosted a UFC event, with the last coming back on Nov. 2, 2024, for a Fight Night card headlined by a flyweight bout between Brandon Moreno and Amir Albazi.<\/p>\n
The Edmonton event will also be the second Canadian card in 2026, after Winnipeg hosted a Fight Night back in April, headlined by a welterweight fight between Canada’s Mike Malott and Brazil’s Gilbert Burns.<\/p>\n
Edmonton previously hosted UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar in 2019 and UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2 in 2017. All three previous events were also at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC Fight Night card in Edmonton will feature a memorable Canadian debut. Louis Jourdain, brother of current…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-836167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836167","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=836167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}