{"id":637902,"date":"2026-04-29T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637902\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:46:13","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-april-28-joselyne-edwards-enters-top-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637902\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, April 28: Joselyne Edwards enters top 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC Fight Night 274 took place last week at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas, causing movement in some divisional rankings.<\/p>\n

In the main event, Aljamain Sterling took on Youssef Zalal in a key featherweight bout. The former bantamweight champ made things look relatively easy, as Sterling’s experience in five-round bouts showed. “Funkmaster” climbs one spot with this win, moving up from No. 8 to No. 7. Zalal falls a couple of spots from No. 9 to No. 11.<\/p>\n

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In the co-main event, women’s bantamweight contender Joselyne Edwards kept her hot streak alive and has entered the title picture with a big statement win over Norma Dumont. Coming into the week at No. 11, she makes a big leap, landing at No. 4, overtaking Dumont’s previous spot.<\/p>\n

Check out all of the moves in the latest USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: MMA Junkie rankings, April 28: Joselyne Edwards makes a huge leap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night 274 took place last week at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas, causing movement in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[33438,64,63,269490,786,49313,785,305576,85,67102],"class_list":["post-637902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-aljamain-sterling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bantamweight","tag-fighting","tag-joselyne-edwards","tag-mma","tag-norma-dumont","tag-sports","tag-youssef-zalal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637902","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=637902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}