{"id":82701,"date":"2025-08-20T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82701\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:15:07","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-aug-19-khamzat-chimaev-takes-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82701\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 19: Khamzat Chimaev takes No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest event in the UFC pay-per-view shook up the rankings in multiple divisions.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of UFC 319, Khamzat Chimaev dethroned Dricus Du Plessis in a dominating performance from beginning to end. The new middleweight champion takes the No. 1 spot in the 185-pound division, bumping Du Plessis down to No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the co-feature, undefeated featherweight contender Lerone Murphy flattened newcomer Aaron Pico with a beautiful spinning elbow for an emphatic first-round finish. Murphy launches up to No. 3 in the 145-pound division as he nears a shot at Alexander Volkanovski&#8217;s title.<\/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\/08\/19\/mma-junkie-rankings-aug-18-khamzat-chimaev-takes-no-1\/85734990007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 18: Khamzat Chimaev takes No. 1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MMA Junkie rankings, Aug. 18: Khamzat Chimaev takes No. 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest event in the UFC pay-per-view shook up the rankings in multiple divisions. In the main event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[35891,28981,49,48,49565,17724,19451,641,5899,35893,638,19731,82,640],"class_list":["post-82701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-aaron-pico","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dominating-performance","tag-dricus-du-plessis","tag-du-plessis","tag-fighting","tag-khamzat-chimaev","tag-lerone-murphy","tag-mma","tag-rankings","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82701","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=82701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}