Mike Malott, UFC 289 ceremonial weigh-in Credit score: Jay Anderson/Cageside Press
Canadian welterweight Mike Malott has one other battle on residence soil lined up, as he’ll participate in UFC 315 in Montreal, Quebec this Could.
The UFC’s first Canadian date of 2025 will see Ontario’s Malott (11-2-1) tackle Charles Radtke (10-4), a.okay.a. “Chuck Buffalo,” on the Bell Centre in Montreal on Could 10, 2025.
UFC officers introduced the reserving on Friday. Malott joins fellow Canadians Marc-Andre Barriault and Brad Katona on the Montreal card.
After struggling a late upset towards Neil Magny at UFC 297 final January, Malott was set for a summer season return, solely to as an alternative sit out on account of harm. Finally, he obtained again within the cage at UFC Edmonton in November, the place he earned a unanimous resolution victory over Trevin Giles.
Malott is 4-1 beneath the UFC banner since coming into the promotion off a win on Dana White’s Contender Sequence in 2021. He, alongside teammate Jasmine Jasudavicius and Quebec’s Aiemann Zahabi, have been on the forefront of Canadian MMA lately.
Radtke is 3-1 contained in the UFC octagon, and can enter the battle off a win over Matthew “Semi the Jedi” Semelsberger. He prompted a stir following his debut at UFC 293 in 2023, after dropping a homophobic slur and cursing on the crowd in Sydney, Australia. Radtke later apologized for the incident.
UFC 315 is headlined by welterweight champ Belal Muhammad, set to defend his title reverse Jack Della Maddalena. Girls’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko returns within the co-headliner, trying to defend towards Manon Fiorot.
Belal Muhammad (c) vs. Jack Della Maddalena – for the UFC welterweight championship
Valentina Shevchenko (c) vs. Manon Fiorot – for the UFC ladies’s flyweight championship
Gilbert Burns vs. Michael Morales
Alexa Grasso vs. Natália Silva
Marc-André Barriault vs. Bruno Silva
Brad Katona vs. Bekzat Almakhan
Hailey Cowan vs. Nora Cornolle
Benoît Saint Denis vs. Joel Álvarez
Mike Malott vs. Charlie Radtke
