{"id":898812,"date":"2026-09-17T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898812\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:44:08","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-sept-16-silva-grasso-make-top-5-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898812\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 16: Silva, Grasso make top 5 moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 16: Silva, Grasso make top 5 moves<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sept. 16, 2026, 11:31 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Jean Silva and Alexa Grasso are on the rise in the top 5 of their divisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At Noche UFC, Silva took care of business in the main event against replacement opponent Jose Delgado. The bonus-winning third-round submission made it back-to-back wins for the now-ranked No. 5 featherweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former women&#8217;s flyweight champ Grasso inched closer to the top of her division by picking up a unanimous decision over Manon Fiorot. Grasso entered the fight at No. 5, and now lands at No. 3 behind Natalia Silva and <a data-autotag=\"ee32473d-9fc2-400e-b645-fc00a010ae9e\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/valentina-shevchenko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Valentina Shevchenko<\/a>.<\/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><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789623848_835_91324338007-h-pue-2-r-8-wmaa-0-y-za.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 mmajunkie.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Sept. 16: Silva, Grasso make top 5 moves Sept. 16, 2026, 11:31 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[159202,49,48,641,638,241803,82,160714,160715,188524,162058,159087,181690,159095,159089,180541,159085],"class_list":["post-898812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagarizona","tag-tagexclude-social-autopilot","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagmma-rankings","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagvalentina-shevchenko","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898812","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=898812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}