{"id":92979,"date":"2026-05-13T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-may-12-sean-strickland-new-no-1\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:23:13","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-may-12-sean-strickland-new-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-may-12-sean-strickland-new-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, May 12: Sean Strickland new No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UFC 328 took place last week at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., creating movement in pound-for-pound and some divisional rankings.<\/p>\n

In the main event, Sean Strickland<\/a> pulled off another title-winning upset, this time over previously undefeated Khamzat Chimaev<\/a>. Strickland entered the event at No. 3 in the middleweight rankings, and moves up to the No. 1 spot now that he has the division's crown. Chimaev falls to No. 2.<\/p>\n

In the co-main event, flyweight champion Joshua Van<\/a> recorded his first title defense by defeating Tatsuro Taira with a fifth-round stoppage. Despite being finished, Taira maintains his No. 5 spot, while Van has nowhere up to go from No. 1. <\/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, May 12: Strickland takes No. 1 spot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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UFC 328 took place last week at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., creating movement in pound-for-pound and some divisional rankings. In the main event, Sean Strickland pulled off another title-winning upset, this time over previously undefeated Khamzat Chimaev. Strickland entered the event at No. 3 in the middleweight rankings, and moves up to the No. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11429,10393,2590,11428,29111,488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}