{"id":94484,"date":"2026-06-03T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-june-2-alonzo-menifield-elevates-status\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:23:11","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-june-2-alonzo-menifield-elevates-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-june-2-alonzo-menifield-elevates-status\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, June 2: Alonzo Menifield elevates status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-277-song-vs-figueiredo\/\">UFC Fight Night 277<\/a> took place Saturday \u2013 while many fans in North America were still sounds asleep.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event showdown between bantamweight contenders, Song Yadong submitted Deiveson Figueiredo by <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/ufc-macau-results-yadong-song-135941274.html\" data-3p-content-referrer=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/05\/30\/ufc-macau-yadong-song-submission-deiveson-figueiredo-guillotine-choke-bantamweight-china-main-event\/90329762007\/\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/05\/30\/ufc-macau-yadong-song-submission-deiveson-figueiredo-guillotine-choke-bantamweight-china-main-event\/90329762007\/\">second-round guillotine choke<\/a>. The event took place at Galaxy Arena in Macau, China.<\/p>\n<p>In the co-main event, Alonzo Menifield upset the oddsmakers as he defeated Zhang Mingyang with <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/ufc-macau-video-alonzo-menifield-132449728.html\" data-3p-content-referrer=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/05\/30\/ufc-macau-video-alonzo-menifield-upset-knockout-ko-zhang-mingyang-china-wife-family\/90329679007\/\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/05\/30\/ufc-macau-video-alonzo-menifield-upset-knockout-ko-zhang-mingyang-china-wife-family\/90329679007\/\">a first-round knockout<\/a>, elevating him in the USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings from honorable mention to No. 14 at light heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all of the moves in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/\">USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/2026\/06\/02\/rankings-june-2-ufc-macau\/90379631007\/\">USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, June 2: Alonzo Menifield elevates status<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-020055043.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Fight Night 277 took place Saturday \u2013 while many fans in North America were still sounds asleep. In the main event showdown between bantamweight contenders, Song Yadong submitted Deiveson Figueiredo by second-round guillotine choke. The event took place at Galaxy Arena in Macau, China. In the co-main event, Alonzo Menifield upset the oddsmakers as [&hellip;]<\/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":[22733,29378,7330,11429,22734,10393,11428,1288,488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94484"}],"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=94484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}