{"id":136381,"date":"2025-09-11T23:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136381\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:50:06","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-sept-9-nassourdine-imavov-climbs-closer-to-top-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136381\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 9: Nassourdine Imavov climbs closer to top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest UFC event shook up a few divisions.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-paris-sept-6-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 258;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 258<\/a>, Nassourdine Imavov <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-paris-results-nassourdine-imavov-223733644.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:handled business;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handled business<\/a> against Caio Borralho, making his case for a shot at the middleweight title. Entering the week at No. 4 in the division, the Frenchman climbs one spot, replacing former champion Sean Strickland. Meanwhile, Borralho, who came in at No. 8, falls one spot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the heavyweight division, UFC newcomer Ante Delija thumped Marcin Tybura <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-fight-night-258-video-182901821.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:in the first round;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the first round<\/a>, who held the No. 11 spot. As a result, Delija takes the debut win and Tybura&#8217;s ranking. Tybura falls one spot behind.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all of the moves in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/09\/10\/mma-junkie-rankings-sept-9-imavov-continues-climb-at-middleweight\/86086258007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 9: Imavov continues climb at middleweight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 9: Imavov continues climb at middleweight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest UFC event shook up a few divisions. In the main event of UFC Fight Night 258,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[87677,64,63,38614,786,92777,92776,785,80736,43022,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-136381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ante-delija","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-caio-borralho","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-heavyweight-division","14":"tag-marcin-tybura","15":"tag-mma","16":"tag-nassourdine-imavov","17":"tag-sean-strickland","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}