{"id":899589,"date":"2026-09-21T02:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899589\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T02:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:50:13","slug":"flying-fijians-to-drop-to-10th-in-world-rugby-rankings-after-japan-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899589\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Fijians to drop to 10th in World Rugby rankings after Japan loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIJI Water Flying Fijians will drop from ninth to 10th in the World Rugby rankings after losing 20-15 to Japan in the Asahi Super Dry Pacific Nations Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji entered the tournament with high expectations, hoping to finish their campaign by lifting the Pacific Nations Cup trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Japan produced a determined performance in the final, leaving the Fijian side facing not only the disappointment of missing out on the title but also a drop in the World Rugby rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat will see Fiji slip to 10th in the rankings, while Japan\u2019s victory will give the Brave Blossoms a significant boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIJI Water Flying Fijians will drop from ninth to 10th in the World Rugby rankings after losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,468109,760,85],"class_list":["post-899589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-flying-fijians-fru","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899589","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=899589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}