Erin Blanchfield vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius: women's flyweight co-main event preview at UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott

The setup

Erin Blanchfield (14-2-0) and Jasmine Jasudavicius (15-4-0) meet at women's flyweight as the co-main event when UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott arrives at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Saturday, October 17, 2026, scheduled for three rounds.

Our schedule tables list 13 bouts on the card. The bout is listed as announced in the PropBetEdge schedule.

The question this preview works through is simple: does either side bring a measurable edge, or is this a matchup the data leaves open? Career-to-date round statistics are on file for both fighters, and the archive holds 9 completed UFC bouts for Erin Blanchfield and 13 completed UFC bouts for Jasmine Jasudavicius.

Tale of the tape

• Record: Erin Blanchfield 14-2-0 · Jasmine Jasudavicius 15-4-0
• Age: Erin Blanchfield 27 · Jasmine Jasudavicius 37
• Height: Erin Blanchfield 5'4" · Jasmine Jasudavicius 5'7"
• Reach: Erin Blanchfield 66" · Jasmine Jasudavicius 68"
• Stance: Erin Blanchfield Orthodox · Jasmine Jasudavicius Orthodox
• Listed weight: Erin Blanchfield 126 lbs · Jasmine Jasudavicius 125 lbs

The 2-inch reach gap in Jasmine Jasudavicius's favour (68" to 66") is the tape's headline number; it defines the range each woman is working from. A reach edge matters most when the longer fighter also sets the pace, and here the numbers cut the other way: Erin Blanchfield out-lands Jasudavicius 5.24 to 3.47 per minute, so the shorter fighter is the busier one and has to cross the gap to do it. That is a different fight from a long fighter picking apart a passive one. Erin Blanchfield is the younger by 10 years (27 to 37). Age on its own tells you little at this level; it reads better alongside the layoff figures in the form section. Both fight orthodox, so lead hands mirror and the rear-hand exchanges are conventional.

Recent form

Erin Blanchfield has 9 completed UFC bouts in the PropBetEdge archive: 8 wins and 1 loss. 4 of those wins came inside the distance (4 by submission), a 50% finish rate on archived wins. The loss went to the scorecards. Most recently she beat Tracy Cortez by submission in round 2 on Nov 15, 2025. That puts her 336 days out by fight night.

• W vs Tracy Cortez — submission, R2 (Nov 15, 2025, UFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev)
• W vs Rose Namajunas — unanimous decision, R5 (Nov 2, 2024, UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Albazi)
• L vs Manon Fiorot — unanimous decision, R5 (Mar 30, 2024, UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot)
• W vs Taila Santos — unanimous decision, R3 (Aug 26, 2023, UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie)
• W vs Jessica Andrade — submission, R2 (Feb 18, 2023, UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield)

Jasmine Jasudavicius has 13 completed UFC bouts in the PropBetEdge archive: 10 wins and 3 losses. 3 of those wins came inside the distance (3 by submission), a 30% finish rate on archived wins. She has been finished once in the archive. She last fought on Apr 18, 2026 and beat Karine Silva by unanimous decision in round 3. That puts her 182 days out by fight night.

• W vs Karine Silva — unanimous decision, R3 (Apr 18, 2026, UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Malott)
• L vs Manon Fiorot — KO/TKO, R1 (Oct 18, 2025, UFC Fight Night: De Ridder vs. Allen)
• W vs Jessica Andrade — submission, R1 (May 10, 2025, UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena)
• W vs Mayra Bueno Silva — unanimous decision, R3 (Feb 1, 2025, UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov)
• W vs Ariane Lipski da Silva — submission, R3 (Nov 2, 2024, UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Albazi)

Jasmine Jasudavicius is the more recently active of the two (182 days out against 336 for Blanchfield).

Style and statistical matchup

Erin Blanchfield lands 5.24 significant strikes per minute at 44% accuracy; Jasmine Jasudavicius lands 3.47 at 44%. That 1.77-per-minute gap in Erin Blanchfield's favour is a real pace differential: over three rounds it compounds into a scorecard edge unless the lower-volume fighter is landing the more damaging shots. On the other side of the exchange, Erin Blanchfield absorbs 4.25 per minute with 58% striking defence and Jasmine Jasudavicius absorbs 3.46 with 51%.

On the ground, Erin Blanchfield averages 1.96 takedowns per 15 minutes at 34% accuracy and defends 78% of attempts against her; Jasmine Jasudavicius averages 2.63 at 46% and defends 75%.

All of these are career-to-date PropSports round-statistics snapshots at capture, not as-of figures for this bout: they describe each fighter across every opponent, which is why the archive form above is read alongside them rather than replaced by them.

Round-level PropSports data exists for 26 archived rounds of Erin Blanchfield's: 643 of 1448 significant strikes landed (44%), 24.7 per round, 16 of 47 takedowns, 47:03 of control time. Round-level PropSports data exists for 35 archived rounds of Jasmine Jasudavicius's: 575 of 1298 significant strikes landed (44%), 16.4 per round, 29 of 63 takedowns, 81:27 of control time and 1 knockdown. Those samples are small and uneven, so they colour the career averages rather than override them.

What could break the angle

Start with what is missing. Career averages are career-to-date snapshots at capture; they include fights outside this matchup context and are not as-of figures. There is also no odds snapshot in PropBetEdge data for this bout, so nothing above can be checked against a market yet; the read describes what to look for, not where value sits. A late weigh-in miss, a replacement or a change in scheduled rounds would each invalidate parts of it.

Final read

On the data, neither fighter carries a material edge into this one; the tape is close and the archive does not separate them. The uncertainty is ordinary fight variance rather than missing data. What to monitor: the three-round format holding, the weigh-in, and once a price exists, where the significant strikes market opens relative to this read. No model price or market line exists in PropBetEdge data for this bout, so this is not a pick; the Bettor's Edge panel above carries the impact score and the markets connected to the evidence.

Matchup page: Erin Blanchfield vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius · Full card: UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott · Fighter pages: Erin Blanchfield, Jasmine Jasudavicius.