Mike Malott stopped Joaquin Buckley in the second round to headline UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Saturday, handing the Canadian welterweight his fifth straight knockout in front of a hometown-adjacent crowd. The 13-fight card also saw a ranked upset in the co-main event and seven finishes across the undercard.
The main event: Malott's finishing streak keeps rolling
Malott hurt Buckley with a strike to the head and followed up on the ground until referee Jason Herzog stopped it at 2:32 of round two. Buckley, the No. 8-ranked welterweight, was coming off a decision loss to fifth-ranked Sean Brady and looking to show that result was a blip rather than a trend. Instead, Malott — ranked 11th, three spots below Buckley, and fresh off a third-round stoppage of former title challenger Gilbert Burns in his first UFC main event — delivered the best win of his career and did it on home soil.
It's Malott's fifth consecutive knockout and a result that moves him past the exact kind of fighter rankings are supposed to separate him from. For Buckley, it's a second straight loss, this time to a man who only cracked the rankings off a single win, and it puts real pressure on his hold over the No. 8 spot with Uroš Medić and Leon Edwards both sitting just behind him.
The co-main: Jasudavicius upsets a top-five Blanchfield
Jasmine Jasudavicius pulled off the card's biggest upset, beating third-ranked Erin Blanchfield by unanimous decision, 29-28 on all three cards. Jasudavicius, ranked sixth in the women's flyweight division, controlled the first two rounds with a takedown and sustained top control. Blanchfield rallied to take the third round, but a late Jasudavicius takedown in that round was enough to hold the scorecards.
It's a result with real rankings weight on both sides: Jasudavicius, fighting in front of her home-country crowd, just beat a fighter three spots above her, while Blanchfield's grappling-heavy résumé takes its first real dent in some time.
Perez debuts with a 27-second knockout
Cristian Perez needed less than 30 seconds to make a statement in his UFC debut, knocking out Canadian veteran Kyle Nelson in just 27 seconds. Perez briefly got dropped off a failed Imanari roll — an attempted leg-lock entry where the attacker rolls underneath the opponent's legs — but recovered immediately and ended the fight with a series of right hands. Nelson, who came in off a first-round knockout loss of his own, now drops a second straight.
Barriault stops the bleeding at home
Marc-Andre Barriault snapped a two-fight skid with a first-round TKO of Kyle Daukaus in front of his hometown crowd. Daukaus took the fight to the mat looking for the submission that has produced 12 of his 17 career wins, but Barriault landed a knee that opened him up, took over on top, and finished with ground strikes at 4:28 of round one. It's the power-over-submission result the pre-fight breakdown flagged as the swing factor, and it goes to the Canadian.
Cuamba spoils Jourdain's debut, Nallo gets back on track
Timmy Cuamba spoiled Louis Jourdain's UFC debut, outstriking and outgrappling him before submitting him in round two at 2:48 — the first submission win of Cuamba's professional career. Jourdain, whose older brother Charles cornered him for the fight, will have to regroup after nearly a decade as a pro before finally reaching the UFC.
In the lightweight bout before it, Mandel Nallo got back in the win column against Nate Landwehr, building the fight with his jab and leg kicks in round one before dropping Landwehr with a leg kick in round two and finishing with punches at 0:47. Both men were coming off first-round knockout losses in their previous outings; only Nallo walks away with the rebound he needed.
Prelims
The seven preliminary bouts produced six finishes.
| Fight | Winner | Method | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boser vs. Diniz | Tanner Boser | TKO (ground and pound) | 3, 4:26 |
| Cerminara vs. Stiller | Katlyn Cerminara | KO/TKO (punches) | 1, 4:46 |
| Croden vs. Chandler | Chelsea Chandler | Submission (kimura) | 1, 4:52 |
| Leblanc vs. Galanti | Nick Galanti | Submission | 1, 1:26 |
| Anheliger vs. Koslow | Steven Koslow | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 3, 4:31 |
| You vs. Chovancek | Su Young You | Submission (kimura) | 3, 4:19 |
| Mahjoub vs. Faglier | Joel Faglier | TKO (punches) | 2, 2:11 |
Chelsea Chandler produced the prelims' notable upset, submitting ninth-ranked women's bantamweight Melissa Croden with a first-round kimura — Chandler rolled into top position off a late takedown and torqued the arm for the finish at 4:52, a meaningful result for a fighter who sat at the bottom of that same ranking. Steven Koslow kept his unusual résumé intact: every one of his wins, now seven, has come by submission, and this one followed the same script, with back-to-back takedowns setting up a third-round rear-naked choke on hometown veteran Chad Anheliger for his first UFC win. Nick Galanti needed barely a minute to spoil Julien Leblanc's homecoming, opening with a body kick into an immediate takedown before finishing at 1:26. On the heavyweight debut between Javad Mahjoub and Joel Faglier, Mahjoub rocked Faglier repeatedly in round one before gassing out, and a recovered Faglier took over in round two to finish with punches at 2:11.
What it means
Malott's win is the kind of two-fight stretch — a ranked veteran now on top of a stoppage of former title challenger Gilbert Burns — that moves a fighter past the group of names directly ahead of him rather than one spot at a time, while Buckley heads home with a second straight loss and a crowded group of contenders directly behind his ranking. Jasudavicius's decision over Blanchfield carries similar weight in the flyweight picture, and six first-round or early finishes across the rest of the card made for one of the more stoppage-heavy nights the promotion has put on this year. Full records, rankings context and the pre-fight breakdown for every matchup on the card are available on the event page.