{"id":102570,"date":"2025-08-28T05:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102570\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:51:07","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-aug-26-johnny-walker-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102570\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 26: Johnny Walker is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest UFC and PFL events shook up the rankings in multiple divisions.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of UFC Fight Night 257, Johnny Walker pulled off a second-round TKO of Zhang Mingyang, making for a huge homecoming spoiler in China. Walker entered the week in the honorable mentions at 205-pounds, but climbs into the top 15 to take the No. 14 spot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>At 2025 PFL World Tournament 10, Oleg Popov won a narrow split decision over UFC veteran Alexandr Romanov. With the result, Popov climbs from the heavyweight honorable mentions, landing at No. 15, while sending Romanov out of the top 15.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all of the moves in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/27\/mma-junkie-rankings-aug-26-johnny-walker-aljamain-sterling\/85856062007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 26: Johnny Walker is back;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 26: Johnny Walker is back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest UFC and PFL events shook up the rankings in multiple divisions. In the main event of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[48148,49,48,641,59138,51932,638,48147,19731,82,640,12107,50876],"class_list":{"0":"post-102570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alexandr-romanov","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-honorable-mentions","13":"tag-johnny-walker","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-oleg-popov","16":"tag-rankings","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-ufc","19":"tag-walker","20":"tag-zhang-mingyang"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102570","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=102570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}