{"id":309506,"date":"2025-11-26T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309506\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:09:09","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-nov-25-ufc-qatar-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309506\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Nov. 25: UFC Qatar fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings – November 24<\/p>\n

Catch up with the latest MMA Junkie rankings moves with George Garcia in this latest episode of Rankings Report<\/p>\n

Considering it was a Fight Night card that wasn’t getting a lot of attention, the UFC’s debut in Qatar led to some significant movement in the rankings.<\/p>\n

In the main event, Arman Tsarukyan (23-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) submitted Dan Hooker (24-13 MMA, 14-9 UFC) in his return from a lengthy layoff. In the process, he reasserted himself as the likely top contender for the lightweight title now held by Ilia Topuria \u2013\u00a0and he moved up the pound-for-pound charts quite nicely, too.<\/p>\n

The welterweight division continues to be a lot of fun, and it got a little more complicated in Qatar when Ian Machado Garry (17-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) outworked ex-champion Belal Muhammad (24-5 MMA, 15-5 UFC) in the co-feature. Check out Garry’s move at welterweight \u2013 and another big move for a fellow contender at 170.<\/p>\n

Plus, see where Waldo Cortes-Acosta (16-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) moved to with his fourth win of 2025, a bonus-winning knockout of Shamil Gaziev (14-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC). And the return of Kyoji Horiguchi (35-5 MMA, 8-1 UFC), who submitted Tagir Ulanbekov (17-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC) for a bonus in his first UFC fight in nine years, will shake things up at flyweight.<\/p>\n

Check out all of the moves in the latest USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings – November 24 Catch up with the latest MMA Junkie rankings moves with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[449,64,63,169835,40142,786,171059,9522,56532,1637,17499,153661,796,801,785,154613,26644,44,323,451,439,3410,85,635,1638],"class_list":["post-309506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-arts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belal","tag-belal-muhammad","tag-fighting","tag-garry","tag-ian","tag-ian-machado-garry","tag-ilia","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-machado","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-mma-rankings","tag-muhammad","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-rankings","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-topuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309506","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=309506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}