{"id":149482,"date":"2025-09-17T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149482\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:13:10","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-sept-16-diego-lopes-one-spot-closer-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149482\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 16: Diego Lopes one spot closer to the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest UFC event caused moves in 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 259;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 259<\/a>, aka Noche UFC, Diego Lopes pulled off a thrilling finish of Jean Silva. Coming in to the week, Lopes was the No. 5 featherweight, but after the victory, he climbs above Yair Rodriguez, landing at No. 4. Silva, who was No. 8, falls just one spot to No. 9.<\/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\/16\/mma-junkie-rankings-sept-16-diego-lopes-rises-at-featherweight\/86192176007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 16: Diego Lopes rises at featherweight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 16: Diego Lopes rises at featherweight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest UFC event caused moves in a few divisions. In the main event of UFC Fight Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,36995,641,36993,638,82,79454,11281],"class_list":["post-149482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-diego-lopes","tag-fighting","tag-jean-silva","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-night-259","tag-yair-rodriguez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149482","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=149482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}