{"id":457784,"date":"2026-02-04T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457784\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:10:10","slug":"volkanovski-enters-p4p-top-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457784\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkanovski enters P4P top 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The UFC&#8217;s return to Sydney created some shifts in the divisional and pound-for-pound rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">UFC 325 was headlined by a featherweight title rematch between <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/alex-volkanovski\/\" data-autotag=\"682a0274-8dfb-4fdf-ab07-7148882f3964\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Alexander Volkanovski<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/diego-lopes\/\" data-autotag=\"d1362b8a-796e-4b47-843f-157444c8e9f4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Diego Lopes<\/a>. It was a masterclass performance for Volkanovski, who notched the first title defense of his second reign. There&#8217;s no room for &#8220;The Great&#8221; to move up in the featherweight rankings, but in P4P, he returns to the top 5 by moving up two spots from No. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the lightweight division, Benoit Saint Denis gave Dan Hooker a beatdown. As a result, BSD enters the top 10, landing at No. 7 as he jumps up from the No. 11 spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Check out all of the moves in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/31\/ufc-325-preliminary-card-best-mma-photosgallery-sydney-australia\/88457362007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - UFC 325: Best photos from\u00a0Sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770207009_5_88457908007-getty-images-2259313630.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a> <a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__lp gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/02\/01\/alexander-volkanovski-def-diego-lopes-ufc-325-best-mma-photos\/88462211007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Alexander Volkanovski def. Diego Lopes at UFC 325: Best photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770207010_13_88462034007-getty-images-2259330015.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 3, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET The UFC&#8217;s return to Sydney created some shifts in the divisional and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[202558,64,63,786,785,85,203779,203780,203784,203783,203781,235716,202563,203139,235715,202561],"class_list":["post-457784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagalexander-volkanovski","tag-tagdiego-lopes","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagmma-rankings","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagsydney","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457784","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=457784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}