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A Canadian on the best run of his career gets a hometown main event against a knockout artist whose chin rating has collapsed to 28.
Edmonton gets a main event with a genuinely awkward premise: the local man is the better-rated fighter, and the visiting headliner is the one with the reputation. Mike Malott's 70.1 composite rating is twelve points clear of Joaquin Buckley's 58.0, and it has been earned in the eight UFC fights the database has recorded rather than assumed from highlight reels. Malott has won four in a row. He kn…
Buckley (21-8) has lost two in a row, both on the cards, to Sean Brady in May and Kamaru Usman in June 2025. Before that he beat Colby Covington and stopped Stephen Thompson in the third round in October 2024, which is why his 41.1 quality-of-victory sits so high. At 32 the concern is not his form but his 28.0 chin rating.
Malott (14-2-1) has won four straight, most recently a third-round knockout of Gilbert Burns in April, and holds the higher composite at 70.1. His 0.71 finish rate is the best on this fight, and his only recent loss came to Neil Magny in January 2024. At 34 he is the older man by two years.
Buckley's 28.0 chin rating against a fighter with a 7.62 pressure score and a 0.71 finish rate
Seven and a half centimetres of reach for Buckley, 193.0cm to 185.4cm, and whether he can hold that distance
Buckley's 0.0 submission and 0.45 wrestling scores mean there is no floor to retreat to
Malott's third-round knockout of Gilbert Burns in April as the best single result on either record
Buckley's 100.0 momentum score on two straight defeats — flattery from the quality of Brady and Usman
Buckley's 6.75 striking is the higher figure and one clean southpaw left ends this regardless of the ratings
Malott's 78.0 chin is solid but he was knocked out by Neil Magny in 2024, so the door is not closed
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