Mike Malott is getting another shot at being a headliner on home soil.
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.
The co-main event at Rogers Place will feature Ontario’s Jasmine Jasudavicius taking on Erin Blanchfield in a bout that was moved from August’s UFC 330.
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.
The Canadian welterweight from Burlington, Ont., improved to 7-1 in the UFC with the win, his fourth in a row.
The win in Winnipeg was Malott’s 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.
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.