How to Watch UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs Malott in Australia

Paramount+ carries every fight from Edmonton, and the main card starts at 11:00am AEDT on Sunday 18 October. Here’s when and where to tune in.

UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs Malott streams live on Paramount+ in Australia, with the prelims starting at 8:00am AEDT and the main card at 11:00am AEDT on Sunday 18 October.

There’s no pay-per-view and no Kayo or Foxtel add-on required, because Fight Nights sit inside a standard Paramount+ subscription.

The card comes from Rogers Place in Edmonton, where it’s Saturday night local time, and marks the UFC’s fourth visit to the Alberta capital.

Up top is a welterweight scrap with real consequences for the rankings, as No.10 Joaquin Buckley tries to stop a two-fight slide against No.13 Mike Malott, a Canadian headlining on home soil for the second time this year.

UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs Malott Event Details

Everything you need for Sunday morning sits below.

• Event: UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs Malott
• Date: Sunday 18 October 2026 (Australian time), Saturday 17 October in Edmonton
• Venue: Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Prelims: 8:00am AEDT
• Main card: 11:00am AEDT
• Where to watch: Paramount+ (full card)
• Main event: Joaquin Buckley vs Mike Malott, welterweight, five rounds

Buckley vs Malott Start Times Around Australia

Daylight saving kicked in on 4 October, so the gap between the states is back to its awkward spring shape. Queensland now sits an hour behind Sydney, and Perth is three hours back.

• Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart (AEDT): prelims 8:00am, main card 11:00am
• Brisbane (AEST): prelims 7:00am, main card 10:00am
• Adelaide (ACDT): prelims 7:30am, main card 10:30am
• Darwin (ACST): prelims 6:30am, main card 9:30am
• Perth (AWST): prelims 5:00am, main card 8:00am

There are six fights on the main card, so the main event walkout should land somewhere around 1:00pm to 2:00pm AEDT, depending on how many finishes come before it.

If you only care about the headliner, early afternoon on the east coast is the window to be on the couch.

How to Watch Buckley vs Malott on Paramount+

Paramount+ has been the Australian home of every UFC Fight Night since January 2026, when its expanded deal with the UFC kicked in, and this card is no different.

The full event, prelims and main card, streams live as part of a regular subscription, so existing subscribers pay nothing extra.

You can watch through the Paramount+ app on smart TVs, phones and tablets, or in a web browser. The UFC also lists Fetch and Foxtel’s Hubbl as ways to get Paramount+ on the big screen if that’s how your lounge room is already set up.

This card has no early prelims, which means UFC Fight Pass isn’t needed for anything on the night. Numbered events work differently, as those main cards stay on Main Event pay-per-view through Kayo and Foxtel with only the prelims on Paramount+.

That’s the setup for UFC 333 the following weekend, so don’t let a quiet Sunday on Paramount+ fool you into expecting the same next time.

Buckley Needs to Stop the Slide and Malott Smells Blood

Buckley arrives at a crossroads. The 32-year-old from St. Louis ripped off six straight wins after dropping to welterweight, knocking out Stephen Thompson at UFC 307 and beating up Colby Covington until the doctor stopped it, which had him looking like a genuine contender.

Then the wrestlers caught up with him. Kamaru Usman outworked him over five rounds in June 2025, and Sean Brady did the same over three at UFC 328 in May.

Both losses followed the same script, with Buckley taken down and controlled for long stretches. 

The good news for him is that Malott isn’t Usman or Brady on the mat, so this one should spend far more time standing, where Buckley remains one of the heaviest single-shot hitters in the division.

Malott is coming the other way entirely. The 34-year-old, who fights out of Fonthill, Ontario, has won four in a row, a run that started at Rogers Place two years ago, and his last outing was the biggest win of his career.

He dropped Gilbert Burns twice and finished him in the third round in Winnipeg in April, in his first UFC main event, and Burns retired in the cage straight afterwards. That result moved Malott to 7-1 inside the Octagon and into the rankings.

This will be his seventh straight fight on Canadian soil, and a hostile Edmonton crowd is part of the challenge for Buckley.

We think Malott’s cleaner, higher-volume striking and the home atmosphere make him the more likely winner over five rounds, but Buckley has the kind of power that can flip a fight he’s losing in a single exchange, so nobody should switch off early.

It is worth checking the latest UFC fight odds before Sunday to see how the market has that one priced.

Blanchfield vs Jasudavicius Carries Title Stakes

The co-main is arguably the more important fight for its division. Erin Blanchfield, ranked No. 4 at flyweight and 8-1 in the UFC, beat Rose Namajunas the last time the promotion visited Edmonton and avenged a 2019 Invicta loss to Tracy Cortez at UFC 322 last November.

A convincing win here puts her right in the conversation for a first title shot. Jasmine Jasudavicius, ranked No. 6, also won on that last Edmonton card, submitting Ariane da Silva in the third round.

She bounced back from a loss to Manon Fiorot with a decision over Karine Silva in April and would jump straight into the top tier with an upset. 

There’s some needle too, as Jasudavicius handed Blanchfield’s close friend and training partner Fatima Kline her first career loss.

With Natalia Silva newly crowned at UFC 332 and Alexa Grasso likely next in line after beating Fiorot at Noche UFC, both women need something emphatic rather than a quiet points win.

UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs Malott Full Fight Card

The card has already been reshuffled a few times, with Mackenzie Stiller replacing Jamey-Lyn Horth, Nick Galanti stepping in for Gilbert Urbina and Joel Faglier taking Louie Sutherland ’s spot.

Late changes during fight week are always possible, but this is the line-up as it stands.

Main Card (11:00am AEDT)

• Joaquin Buckley vs Mike Malott (welterweight)
• Erin Blanchfield vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (women’s flyweight)
• 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 (8:00am AEDT)

• Tanner Boser vs Jhonata Diniz (heavyweight)
• Julien Leblanc vs Nick Galanti (middleweight)
• Javad Mahjoub vs Joel Faglier (heavyweight)
• Mackenzie Stiller vs Katlyn Cerminara (women’s flyweight)
• Chad Anheliger vs Steven Koslow (bantamweight)
• Melissa Croden vs Chelsea Chandler (women’s bantamweight)
• Cody Chovancek vs SuYoung You (bantamweight)

Keep an eye on Nallo vs Landwehr, which opens the main card. Nallo has never been to the judges’ scorecards and Landwehr has been finished in each of his last three fights, so this one is unlikely to hang around.

For a lean on the rest of the card, our UFC fight predictions are worth a look.