{"id":101635,"date":"2025-08-27T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101635\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:39:08","slug":"aljamain-sterling-defends-ufc-top-5-ranking-against-ignorant-ufc-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101635\/","title":{"rendered":"Aljamain Sterling defends UFC Top 5 ranking against \u2018ignorant\u2019 UFC fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fans on the combat sports message boards seemed to have an issue with former featherweight title challenger, Yair Rodriguez, retaining the No. 3 spot. Probably because \u201cEl Pantera\u201d has only competed twice over the last two years and holds a 1-2 record during that span, getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/2\/25\/24082608\/ufc-mexico-city-results-brian-ortega-yair-rodriguez-espn-mma-featherweight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finished by Ortega at UFC Mexico City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dT-City\u201d dropped to No. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat is the only odd ranking in my opinion,\u201d Sterling wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/funkmasterMMA\/status\/1960456583286284799\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media<\/a>. \u201cSome ignorant people saying Ortega is washed, but he literally has a finish over a current Top 3 guy. I think it\u2019s more people don\u2019t want to give credit when due.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans on the combat sports message boards seemed to have an issue with former featherweight title challenger, Yair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,50095,702],"class_list":["post-101635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-rankings","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}