{"id":711954,"date":"2026-06-03T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711954\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:55:13","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-june-2-alonzo-menifield-elevates-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711954\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, June 2: Alonzo Menifield elevates status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, June 2: Alonzo Menifield elevates status<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>June 2, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-277-song-vs-figueiredo\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Fight Night 277<\/a> took place Saturday \u2013 while many fans in North America were still sounds asleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the main event showdown between bantamweight contenders, Song Yadong submitted Deiveson Figueiredo by <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/05\/30\/ufc-macau-yadong-song-submission-deiveson-figueiredo-guillotine-choke-bantamweight-china-main-event\/90329762007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second-round guillotine choke<\/a>. The event took place at Galaxy Arena in Macau, China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the co-main event, Alonzo Menifield upset the oddsmakers as he defeated Zhang Mingyang with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/05\/30\/ufc-macau-video-alonzo-menifield-upset-knockout-ko-zhang-mingyang-china-wife-family\/90329679007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a first-round knockout<\/a>, elevating him in the USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings from honorable mention to No. 14 at light heavyweight.<\/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><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/89676784007-image-1776525442412.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 mmajunkie.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, June 2: Alonzo Menifield elevates status June 2, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[202558,64,63,786,785,315656,85,206029,206030,203781,235716,203147,203139,202561],"class_list":["post-711954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsmma","tag-sstsnmma","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagmma-rankings","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711954","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=711954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}