{"id":452839,"date":"2026-02-04T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:35:10","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-feb-3-volkanovski-climbs-p4p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452839\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Feb. 3: Volkanovski climbs P4P"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC’s return to Sydney created some shifts in the divisional and pound-for-pound rankings.<\/p>\n

UFC 325 was headlined by a featherweight title rematch between Alexander Volkanovski<\/a> and Diego Lopes<\/a>. It was a masterclass performance for Volkanovski, who notched the first title defense of his second reign. There’s no room for “The Great” to move up in the featherweight rankings, but in P4P, he returns to the top 5 by moving up two spots from No. 7.<\/p>\n

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In the lightweight division, Benoit Saint Denis gave Dan Hooker a beatdown. As a result, BSD enters the top 10, landing at No. 7 as he jumps up from the No. 11 spot.<\/p>\n

Check out all of the moves in the latest USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: MMA Junkie rankings update, Feb. 3: Volkanovski enters P4P top 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC’s return to Sydney created some shifts in the divisional and pound-for-pound rankings. UFC 325 was headlined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[28981,24749,49,48,36995,641,1699,638,82,640,142930],"class_list":["post-452839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-benoit-saint-denis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-diego-lopes","tag-fighting","tag-lightweight-division","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-volkanovski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452839","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=452839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}