{"id":839685,"date":"2025-04-07T18:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-feb-11-khamzat-chimaev-benefits-from-ufc-312-result\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:13:19","slug":"usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-feb-11-khamzat-chimaev-benefits-from-ufc-312-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-feb-11-khamzat-chimaev-benefits-from-ufc-312-result\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings, Feb. 11: Khamzat Chimaev benefits from UFC 312 result"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The rankings take into account a fighter&#8217;s wins\/losses, quality of competition, finishing rate\/dominance and frequency of fights.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters are no longer eligible to be ranked after they&#8217;ve been inactive for 24 months, either due to injuries, drug\/conduct suspensions, contract disputes or self-imposed hiatuses.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters serving drug\/conduct suspensions are eligible to be ranked, so long as they&#8217;re not inactive for more than 24 months.<\/p>\n<p>To the best of our ability, fighters will be ranked in their primary weight class. Catchweight fights and bouts outside the fighter&#8217;s primary weight class can have a positive or negative impact on the ranking. However, non-titleholders can be ranked in only one weight class at a given time, and in most cases, they won&#8217;t be ranked in a new weight class until they&#8217;ve had their first fight at that weight.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> MMA Junkie Staff <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2025\/02\/usa-today-sports-mma-junkie-rankings-feb-11-khamzat-chimaev-benefits-from-ufc-312-result\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rankings take into account a fighter&#8217;s wins\/losses, quality of competition, finishing rate\/dominance and frequency of fights. Fighters are no longer eligible to be ranked after they&#8217;ve been inactive for 24 months, either due to injuries, drug\/conduct suspensions, contract disputes or self-imposed hiatuses. Fighters serving drug\/conduct suspensions are eligible to be ranked, so long as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,695],"tags":[6810,6293],"class_list":{"0":"post-839685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"category-today","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-today"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}