{"id":46933,"date":"2025-08-06T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46933\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:11:08","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-aug-5-tatsuro-taira-nears-top-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46933\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 5: Tatsuro Taira nears top 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest event in the UFC Apex produced a key move in the men&#8217;s flyweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off the first loss of his career, Tatsuro Taira rebounded with a flawless performance against short-notice replacement opponent HyunSung Park in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-august-2-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC on ESPN 71;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC on ESPN 71<\/a>. Taira entered the week at No. 8, and after his victory, moved up to the No. 6 spot behind Manel Kape.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In New Jersey, <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/2025-pfl-world-tournament-8-finals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2025 PFL World Tournament 8;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2025 PFL World Tournament 8<\/a> also caused a move in the featherweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Movlid Khaybulaev entered the week at No. 14, but after a dominant performance in the co-main event against No. 15 Jesus Pinedo for the featherweight tournament championship, he now settles in at the No. 11 spot. Pinedo stays at No. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Check out 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\/08\/05\/mma-junkie-rankings-aug-5-tatsuro-taira-nears-top-5\/85533978007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 5: Tatsuro Taira nears top 5;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 5: Tatsuro Taira nears top 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest event in the UFC Apex produced a key move in the men&#8217;s flyweight division. Coming off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40249,40250,34107,785,85,29100,4908],"class_list":["post-46933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-flawless-performance","tag-flyweight-division","tag-jesus-pinedo","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-tatsuro-taira","tag-ufc-apex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46933","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=46933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}