{"id":472486,"date":"2026-02-11T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472486\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:52:11","slug":"horiguchi-kuniev-enter-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472486\/","title":{"rendered":"Horiguchi, Kuniev enter top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Feb. 10, 2026, 9:49 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The UFC&#8217;s first Fight Night event of the year shook up rankings in a few divisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">UFC Fight Night 266 was headlined by a bantamweight bout between top 10 competitors Mario Bautista and Vinicius Oliveira. It was a solid outing for Bautista, but it&#8217;s crowded at the top of 135, so he stays at No. 6 for now. Oliveira&#8217;s lackluster outing results in a drop from No. 10 to No. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former UFC flyweight title challenger Kyoji Horiguchi is looking incredible in his second run with the promotion. Coming into his fight at No. 10 against No. 7 Amir Albazi, Horguchi claims the No. 7 spot while everyone below that falls one spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Another big move this week came in the heavyweight division. Rizvan Kuniev entered his second UFC bout against another top 10 opponent in No. 7 Jailton Almeida. It wasn&#8217;t the most memorable fight in the world, but Kuniev got the win and takes Almeida&#8217;s spot in the rankings.<\/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\/02\/07\/ufc-fight-night-las-vegas-mario-bautista-vs-vinicius-oliveira-best-mma-photos\/88562016007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - UFC Fight Night 266: Best photos from\u00a0Las Vegas\" 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\/1770799931_244_88575065007-13-bautista-v-oliveira-20260207-cu-403-z-fy-lf-id-2-20260207081427.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770799931_515_88408988007-ufc-fight-night-266-bautista-vs-oliveira-event-poster.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Feb. 10, 2026, 9:49 p.m. ET The UFC&#8217;s first Fight Night event of the year shook up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[202558,64,63,786,785,17425,85,203779,203780,203784,206534,203781,235716,202563,203139,235715,206603,202561],"class_list":["post-472486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-nv","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagalexander-volkanovski","tag-taglas-vegas","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagmma-rankings","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagsydney","tag-tagufc-325","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472486","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=472486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}