{"id":137248,"date":"2025-09-11T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137248\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:24:07","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-sept-9-nassourdine-imavov-climbs-closer-to-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137248\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 9: Nassourdine Imavov climbs closer to top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest UFC event shook up a few divisions.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-paris-sept-6-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 258;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 258<\/a>, Nassourdine Imavov <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-paris-results-nassourdine-imavov-223733644.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:handled business;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handled business<\/a> against Caio Borralho, making his case for a shot at the middleweight title. Entering the week at No. 4 in the division, the Frenchman climbs one spot, replacing former champion Sean Strickland. Meanwhile, Borralho, who came in at No. 8, falls one spot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the heavyweight division, UFC newcomer Ante Delija thumped Marcin Tybura <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-fight-night-258-video-182901821.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:in the first round;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the first round<\/a>, who held the No. 11 spot. As a result, Delija takes the debut win and Tybura&#8217;s ranking. Tybura falls one spot behind.<\/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\/09\/10\/mma-junkie-rankings-sept-9-imavov-continues-climb-at-middleweight\/86086258007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 9: Imavov continues climb at middleweight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 9: Imavov continues climb at middleweight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest UFC event shook up a few divisions. In the main event of UFC Fight Night 258,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[74418,49,32140,48,641,2330,74417,638,33274,35696,82,640],"class_list":["post-137248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ante-delija","tag-ca","tag-caio-borralho","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-heavyweight-division","tag-marcin-tybura","tag-mma","tag-nassourdine-imavov","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137248","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=137248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}