{"id":816085,"date":"2026-07-22T07:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/816085\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:47:11","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-july-21-kline-enters-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/816085\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, July 21: Kline enters top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Two events caused movement in this week&#8217;s rankings update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">UFC Fight Night 281 took place Saturday at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Okla., where in the main event, former middleweight champion <a data-autotag=\"6803ad69-a330-492d-b94c-3f422f4770b4\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/dricus-du-plessis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dricus Du Plessis<\/a> defeated former welterweight champion <a data-autotag=\"73e73c99-0d23-4bb5-b2a5-d89ecc76eacd\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/kamaru-usman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Kamaru Usman<\/a>. On the undercard, rising strawweight star Fatima Kline picked up a key win over Tabatha Ricci, who entered the week at No. 10. With the result, Ricci falls, while Kline enters the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">PFL Austin took place in the capital city of Texas, where an interim middleweight champion was crowned. Former champ Johnny Eblen reclaimed a piece of the division&#8217;s title by knocking out Impa Kasanganay.<\/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\/07\/1784706430_96_90745493007-hm-aplema-4-a-aw-b-kk.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784706431_417_90926797007-hnnx-4-n-1-wiaes-mz-7.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 21, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET Two events caused movement in this week&#8217;s rankings update. UFC Fight Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[202558,64,63,786,785,315656,85,203779,203780,375250,304127,203781,235716,375249,202563,203139,202561],"class_list":["post-816085","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-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagdricus-du-plessis","tag-tagkamaru-usman","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagmma-rankings","tag-tagoklahoma-city","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816085","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=816085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}