{"id":437947,"date":"2026-01-28T05:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437947\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:14:07","slug":"mma-junkie-rankings-update-jan-27-natalia-silva-continues-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437947\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA Junkie rankings update, Jan. 27: Natalia Silva continues rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 27, 2026, 10:15 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The first UFC event of the year created some movement in the first rankings update of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">UFC 324 was headlined by an interim lightweight title fight between <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/justin-gaethje\/\" data-autotag=\"267e3c2d-20ce-4e98-81b8-f87a1e326ebf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Justin Gaethje<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/paddy-pimblett\/\" data-autotag=\"1d5bdd9c-d9d6-4ca1-923b-c99085d78801\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Paddy Pimblett<\/a>. Although Gaethje claimed interim gold for the second time, there was no movement in the division&#8217;s rankings for either fighter; Gaethje stays at No. 5 and Pimblett at No. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Women&#8217;s flyweight Natalia Silva picked up a key win over former strawweight champ <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/rose-namajunas\/\" data-autotag=\"4b373d92-365e-4cca-a4b8-249c76f34210\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Rose Namajunas<\/a>, even if many didn&#8217;t agree with the unanimous decision. Regardless, a win is a win, and she moves up to No. 3, passing Erin Blanchfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Check out all of the moves in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/25\/justin-gaethje-vs-paddy-pimblett-ufc-324-ufc-324-best-mma-photos\/88346381007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Justin Gaethje def. Paddy Pimblett, UFC 324 at UFC 324: Best photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/88346327007-usatsi-28082605.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a> <a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__lp gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/25\/ufc-324-red-carpet-celebrity-row-photo-gallery\/88346732007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - UFC 324 red carpet, celebrity row photo gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769577247_169_88349039007-mackenzie-dern-ufc-324-paramount-red-carpet.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 27, 2026, 10:15 p.m. ET The first UFC event of the year created some movement in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[159202,49,48,641,638,82,160714,160715,168017,159087,181690,159095,168016,180542,159089,161687,159085],"class_list":["post-437947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagjustin-gaethje","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagmma-rankings","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagpaddy-pimblett","tag-tagrose-namajunas","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagufc-324","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437947","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=437947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}