{"id":620208,"date":"2026-04-22T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620208\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:24:08","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-april-21-mike-malott-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620208\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, April 21: Mike Malott arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two events, UFC Fight Night 273 and PFL Belfast, took place last week, causing movement in the pound-for-pound and divisional rankings.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of UFC Fight Night 273, Mike Malott announced his official arrival into the upper echelon of the promotion&#8217;s welterweight division \u2013 and into our rankings \u2013 as he defeated Gilbert Burns by third-round TKO.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Also on the card, Charles Jourdain defeated Kyler Phillips to add his name to the list, even if only as an honorable mention.<\/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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings&quot;}\" 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\/2026\/04\/21\/mma-junkie-rankings-april-14-mike-malott-ufc-pfl\/89726005007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMA Junkie rankings, April 14: Mike Malott arrives;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;MMA Junkie rankings, April 14&quot;}\" class=\"link \">MMA Junkie rankings, April 14: Mike Malott arrives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two events, UFC Fight Night 273 and PFL Belfast, took place last week, causing movement in the pound-for-pound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,91822,641,19450,61065,49457,638,232882,82,208807,232881],"class_list":["post-620208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charles-jourdain","tag-fighting","tag-gilbert-burns","tag-kyler-phillips","tag-mike-malott","tag-mma","tag-pfl-belfast","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-night-273","tag-upper-echelon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620208","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=620208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}