UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott runs Saturday, October 17, 2026 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, a 13-fight card headlined by No. 10 Joaquin Buckley and No. 13 Mike Malott in a five-round welterweight main event. It is a ranked fight between two men going in opposite directions. Buckley won six straight at welterweight, then lost back-to-back decisions to Kamaru Usman and Sean Brady. Malott has won four in a row, the last a third-round stoppage of Gilbert Burns in April, and now headlines at home in front of a Canadian crowd. Below that sits a ranked women's flyweight co-main between Erin Blanchfield and Canadian contender Jasmine Jasudavicius. Here is the complete card bout by bout, every start time, the main event breakdown, and where the BettorEdge community board stands.
Buckley vs. Malott fight card: who is fighting on October 17
Thirteen bouts across two segments. Card as of October 13, and it is not final until the fighters make weight on Friday. It has already moved three times on the undercard: Mackenzie Stiller replaced the injured Jamey-Lyn Horth against Katlyn Cerminara, Joel Faglier replaced Louie Sutherland against Javad Mahjoub, and Nick Galanti replaced Gilbert Urbina against Julien Leblanc. The co-main is itself a rebooking, moved here after Blanchfield withdrew injured from the same matchup at UFC 330 in August. The order below matches the UFC's own event page and Wikipedia's card listing.
Main card
| Bout | Weight class |
|---|---|
| Joaquin Buckley vs. Mike Malott | Welterweight (main event, five rounds) |
| Erin Blanchfield vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius | Women's flyweight (co-main) |
| Kyle Nelson vs. Cristian Perez | Lightweight |
| Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Kyle Daukaus | Middleweight |
| Louis Jourdain vs. Timmy Cuamba | Bantamweight |
| Mandel Nallo vs. Nate Landwehr | Lightweight |
Prelims
| Bout | Weight class |
|---|---|
| Tanner Boser vs. Jhonata Diniz | Heavyweight |
| Julien Leblanc vs. Nick Galanti | Middleweight |
| Javad Mahjoub vs. Joel Faglier | Heavyweight |
| Katlyn Cerminara vs. Mackenzie Stiller | Women's flyweight |
| Chad Anheliger vs. Steven Koslow | Bantamweight |
| Melissa Croden vs. Chelsea Chandler | Women's bantamweight |
| Cody Chovancek vs. SuYoung You | Bantamweight |
There is no separate early prelims block on this card as of October 13. The UFC lists all seven undercard bouts as one prelim segment.
How to watch UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott
Event: UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott (UFC Fight Night 291)
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026
Venue: Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta
Prelims: 5 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. CT, 2 p.m. PT
Main card: 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 5 p.m. PT
Watch: the full card streams on Paramount+ in the United States; Sportsnet and TVA Sports carry it in Canada
The UFC moved its United States rights to Paramount+ for 2026, so both segments stream there with no separate fee. Local time in Edmonton is Mountain, which puts the main card at 6 p.m. in the building. This is the UFC's fourth visit to Edmonton and its first since UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Albazi in November 2024, the night Malott started his current win streak in the same arena. With six bouts on the main card, the main event walk should land somewhere after 10:30 p.m. ET, 7:30 p.m. PT, depending on how many finishes come ahead of it.
Read the line, then beat it.
Once you can read a price you can spot a bad one. BettorEdge shows real peer-to-peer odds, and they are often better than the book you would get stuck with.
Buckley vs. Malott: the main event breakdown
Joaquin Buckley (21-8) is 32, out of St. Louis, and one of the most dangerous punchers at 170 pounds. His move down to welterweight produced six straight wins: Andre Fialho by head kick, Alex Morono, Vicente Luque by TKO, Nursulton Ruziboev, Stephen Thompson by third-round knockout at UFC 307, and Colby Covington by doctor stoppage in December 2024. Then the run stopped. Usman beat him over five rounds in June 2025, and Brady beat him by unanimous decision at UFC 328 in May. The UFC's own preview is blunt about the pattern: he was out-wrestled in both losses, and he can be taken down and controlled.
Mike Malott (14-2-1, 7-1 UFC) is 34, from Ontario, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt who spent years coaching striking at Team Alpha Male before his own UFC run. He came in through Dana White's Contender Series in 2021. His only UFC loss is a third-round TKO against Neil Magny at UFC 297 in January 2024. Since then he has beaten Trevin Giles, knocked out Charles Radtke, outpointed Kevin Holland and stopped Gilbert Burns in the third round in April, his first UFC main event. That Burns win came with a $100,000 bonus.
The tape is a real contrast. Malott is listed at 6-foot-1 with a 73-inch reach. Buckley is listed at 5-foot-8 with a 76-inch reach. So Malott is the bigger man, and Buckley still has three inches of reach on him.
Buckley's path. Keep it standing and make Malott pay on the way in. His knockouts of Thompson and Luque came from fighters who chose to stand with him, and his reach lets him punish entries from outside. Malott's one UFC loss was a late stoppage on the feet, so Buckley's power is a live threat in every round. If he stuffs the first few takedowns, the fight starts to look like the version of Buckley that won six in a row.
Malott's path. Do what Usman and Brady did. Mix the level, get Buckley's back to the fence, and spend rounds in top position where a black belt can threaten chokes instead of absorbing counters. Malott has finished fights both ways in the UFC and has more ways to score over 25 minutes. The home crowd will not land a punch, but a fighter on a four-fight streak headlining in front of his own people tends to show up sharp.
Buckley's last two losses came to wrestlers who controlled him. Malott is a black belt with knockout wins, on a four-fight streak, fighting at home. The question Saturday is whether Buckley has fixed the one problem the division has already found.
Buckley vs. Malott odds: where the community board stands
Straight with you. As of 12:36 p.m. UTC on Tuesday, October 13, the BettorEdge community board had priced positions on three of the six main-card bouts, each on one side only. Nobody had posted a live community price on any of the seven prelims.
| Bout | BettorEdge community odds | Implied probability |
|---|---|---|
| Buckley vs. Malott | Buckley -100 (even money); no Malott price posted | 50% |
| Blanchfield vs. Jasudavicius | No community price posted | - |
| Nelson vs. Perez | No community price posted | - |
| Barriault vs. Daukaus | Daukaus -213; no Barriault price posted | 68% |
| Jourdain vs. Cuamba | No community price posted | - |
| Nallo vs. Landwehr | Landwehr +223; no Nallo price posted | 31% |
A one-sided board four days out is normal. Peer-to-peer fight liquidity fills in late, after the weigh-ins clear and the card stops moving, so expect the other sides and the bare bouts to fill in by Friday. Convert any price before you compare. Run the number through the implied probability calculator and the moneyline calculator, then decide whether your read on the fight beats that percentage. The no-vig calculator strips the built-in margin out of any house board you want to measure against.
Where the value sits
The main event lean is Malott, and even money is the tell. The community has Buckley at a coin flip. The BettorEdge read is that the fight is not one. Buckley has lost two straight to the exact style Malott brings, Malott is bigger, on a longer win streak and fighting at home, and Buckley's case rests on power landing before the grappling does. Power is a real path, which is why this is a lean and not a lock. But at 50%, backing Buckley asks you to believe the problem from his last two fights is solved. When a Malott price posts, anything close to even money is where the value sits.
The co-main lean is Blanchfield. Erin Blanchfield (14-2) is 27, ranked No. 4, a jiu-jitsu black belt with submission wins over Tracy Cortez, Jessica Andrade and Molly McCann, and her only UFC loss is a five-round decision to Manon Fiorot. Jasmine Jasudavicius (15-4), ranked No. 6, is 37 and has won six of her last seven, but the one loss in that run was a first-round TKO against the same Fiorot that Blanchfield went 25 minutes with. Jasudavicius is listed three inches taller at 5-foot-7, with the same 68-inch reach. Blanchfield has not fought since November 2025 and comes back from injury, which is the only real knock on her. Lean Blanchfield, and watch the price for how much that layoff is costing her.
The underdog and method-of-victory angle
Nallo vs. Landwehr is a finish fight, not a decision fight. Mandel Nallo (14-4, 1 NC) has never been to the scorecards in his career and has gone past the first round only five times, per the UFC. Nate Landwehr is 38, moving up to lightweight after 26 fights at featherweight, and has lost three straight, all by finish. That is a split across two careers, not a rate to bet blind, but it points one way: this one probably does not see the final horn. Landwehr at +223 on the community board is the one priced underdog on the main card, and the read is not to chase it. A 31% price on a fighter coming off three straight stoppage losses is not cheap. The method of victory guide covers how to bet how a fight ends rather than who wins it.
Daukaus at -213 is fair, not generous. Kyle Daukaus opened his second UFC stint with quick stoppages of Michel Pereira and Gerald Meerschaert, then got stopped in the first round by Bo Nickal. Marc-Andre Barriault is 36, has one win in his last six, and won Fight of the Night in each of his last two bouts while losing both. The board has the form right. Barriault backers are paying for durability and a home-country crowd, which is a real thing but not a 32% thing on recent results.
Two debuts, one on each side of the ledger. Cristian Perez (15-2), 27, debuts off a Contender Series win over Logan Paxton, with 12 career finishes split evenly between knockouts and submissions. Kyle Nelson (17-7-1) is a Canadian veteran coming off a March loss to Terrance McKinney. Louis Jourdain, 29 and the brother of Charles Jourdain, debuts on a four-fight win streak against Timmy Cuamba, who is 2-3 in the UFC. Debuting names are one of the things a community board most often misprices, in both directions, so wait for a number before forming a view.
Back Buckley vs. Malott on BettorEdge
A ranked welterweight fight with a clear style clash, a top-five flyweight returning from injury, and a card stacked with Canadian fighters in front of a Canadian crowd. Get your action on BettorEdge and back your fighter against another real bettor at a community price, with up to $100 available when you verify your ID and no deposit needed.
Tools to check before you back a fighter
Know the math before locking anything in. Turn a price into a true win probability with the implied probability calculator, strip the built-in margin out of any board with the no-vig calculator, and size your payout with the betting calculator. Every announced card sits on the BettorEdge UFC hub, the UFC betting guide covers how fight moneylines are built, and the weight cut guide explains what happens to your bet if Friday's weigh-ins change the card.
UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott FAQ
Who is fighting at UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott?
Joaquin Buckley fights Mike Malott in a five-round welterweight main event, above a main card of Erin Blanchfield vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius, Kyle Nelson vs. Cristian Perez, Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Kyle Daukaus, Louis Jourdain vs. Timmy Cuamba, and Mandel Nallo vs. Nate Landwehr. The prelims are Tanner Boser vs. Jhonata Diniz, Julien Leblanc vs. Nick Galanti, Javad Mahjoub vs. Joel Faglier, Katlyn Cerminara vs. Mackenzie Stiller, Chad Anheliger vs. Steven Koslow, Melissa Croden vs. Chelsea Chandler, and Cody Chovancek vs. SuYoung You. That is 13 bouts, as of October 13, 2026.
When is UFC Edmonton and how can I watch it?
UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott is Saturday, October 17, 2026 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, streaming on Paramount+ in the United States and on Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada. Prelims start at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT) and the main card at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT and 5 p.m. PT.
Is Buckley vs. Malott a ranked fight?
Yes, Joaquin Buckley is No. 10 and Mike Malott is No. 13 in the UFC's official welterweight rankings. It is not a title fight, but Buckley is trying to stop a two-fight skid and Malott is trying to make it five straight wins.
What time is the Buckley vs. Malott main event?
The main card starts at 8 p.m. ET and Buckley vs. Malott is the last of six bouts on it, so the walk typically lands after 10:30 p.m. ET, or after 7:30 p.m. PT. The exact time depends on how many earlier fights end inside the distance.
What are the odds for Buckley vs. Malott?
As of 12:36 p.m. UTC on October 13, 2026, BettorEdge community odds had Joaquin Buckley at -100 (even money), with no community price yet posted on Mike Malott. Community fight liquidity typically fills in once weigh-ins clear, so check the live board closer to Saturday.
How do I bet on UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott?
Pick your fighter and place a moneyline on BettorEdge against another real bettor at a community price rather than a sportsbook's. New users can get up to $100 after verifying their ID, with no deposit needed.
Is betting on BettorEdge legal?
Yes, BettorEdge is a peer-to-peer betting marketplace that is legal across 45+ states, with identity verification built in. You are matched against other people, not a house that profits when you lose.
The bottom line
Buckley vs. Malott is a ranked welterweight fight that turns on one question: can Buckley keep it standing? He has the power and the reach. Malott has the grappling, the size, the streak and the crowd. Blanchfield returns from injury against a Canadian veteran in front of a Canadian crowd, Daukaus tries to bounce back against a durable Barriault, Nallo and Landwehr look like a fight that will not need judges, and two Contender Series names debut on the main card. Thirteen fights, two segments, three undercard swaps already, and a community board that has only started to speak. Watch the weigh-ins, then watch the prices.
Compare prices before the first prelim
Fight boards move fastest after the weigh-ins and again on fight-day morning. See the live BettorEdge board, back your Buckley vs. Malott pick peer to peer, and grab up to $100 when you verify your ID. Better odds. You keep more.
Read the line, then beat it.
Once you can read a price you can spot a bad one. BettorEdge shows real peer-to-peer odds, and they are often better than the book you would get stuck with.