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Bloody Elbow February MMA Meta-Rankings: Featherweight

Fighter %PromotionLast Rank
1. Mike Brown 99
WEC
1
2. Urijah Faber 

96

WEC
1
3. Wagnney Fabiano 88
WEC
4
4. Leonard Garcia 76
WEC
3
5. Hatsu Hioki 72
Shooto
5
6. Takeshi Inoue 70
Shooto
10
7. Dokonjonosuke Mishima 59
DEEP
9
8. Jeff Curran 53
WEC
6
9. Akitoshi Tamura 52
WEC
7
10. Masakazu Imanari 44
DEEP
8
11. Hideki Kadowaki 39
Shooto
11
12. Norifumi Yamamoto 34
K-1
12
13.L.C. Davis 32
Affliction
31
14. Jose Aldo 31
WEC
33
15. Yuji Hoshino 26
GCM
16
16. Cub Swanson 24
WEC
22
17. Rafael Assuncao 23
Ironheart Crown
15
18. Mark Hominick 22
Affliction
18
18. Marlon Sandro 22
Pancrase
20
20. Josh Grispi 21
WEC
17
21. Akiyo Nishiura 20
GCM
21
22. Jens Pulver 19
WEC
14
23. Bao Quach 15
Affliction
19
24. Daisuke Nakamura 15
K-1
NR

25. Dominic Cruz

15
WEC
27

Commentary by Kid Nate Richard:  People finally realized #1 Mike Thomas Brown defeated #2 Urijah Faber in November and he now has the top spot all to himself.  Faber's second win over #22 Jens Pulver did nothing for him, but knocked Pulver out of the top 20.  #3 Wagnney Fabiano surpassed #4 Leonard Garcia likely on the strength of having fought more recently.

Although inactive since the last rankings, it seems many sites had not yet credited #6 Takeshi Inoue for his November 29 win over #11 Hideki Kadowaki.

#7 Dokonjonosuke Mishima's win over unranked Toshiaki Kitada helped to leapfrog him over inactive fighters.

#13 L.C. Davis' win over "gatekeeper" #23 Bao Quach at Affliction: Day of Reckoning launched him 18 spots while dropping Quach 4.  Similarly, #14 Jose Aldo's win over relative nobody Rolando Perez  the next day shot him up 19 spots.

#16 Cub Swanson's win over #27 Hiroyuki Takaya was enough to move him into the top 20.

Previously unranked Daisuke Nakamura debuts at #24 thanks to his New Year's Eve victory over #42 Hideo Tokoro.

#25 Dominic Cruz' win at bantamweight against Ian McCall seems to have been enough to sneak him into 25th on the featherweight rankings.

WEC: Brown vs. Garcia on March 1 will pit #1 Mike Thomas Brown against #4 Leonard Garcia.  #14 Jose Aldo will also be on the card.

NOTE: The Meta-Rankings are not the subjective opinion of the BloodyElbow team or myself, but rather a compilation of the rankings of over twenty leading MMA web sites. It is our opinion that these are the most informative MMA rankings anywhere.

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Based on the premise that opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and they all stink. instead of putting up our own subjective fighter rankings, we compile and average the rankings of every source we could find online.

The goal is to show how the MMA community rates the fighters, not to bore you with our opinions.

Be sure and look at the percentage of possible points, they're a much more telling number than the ranking. There's clearly a huge gulf between the top 9 fighters and those that follow.

A total of 46 fighters were ranked in the top 25 by one source or another, for reasons of sanity I only track the top 25 (26 due to a tie) most highly rated fighters.

25 points are awarded for a first place ranking, 16 for a 10th place ranking, 1 for a 25th place ranking. A formula is used to "normalize" the data so all fighters are awarded points from those lists that do not include a full 25 fighters. Fuller explanation below.

The normalization scheme as explained by JCS of FightMatrix  is here:

The "normalization number" (new name) would be:

120
divided by
(Total Fighters Found in Any List minus 10)

Every fighter found somewhere else, but on a Top 10 list would be assigned this number.

The "normalization" number would not apply to a fighter not found on a Top 25 list. They would simply get 0.

So the process would be:

Do all of the Top 25 lists first, #1 = 25, #2 = 24…. #24 = 2, #25 = 1
Do all of the Top 10 lists, same scoring structure.. stops at #10 = 16

Figure out that normalization variable.

Fill in the normalization variable to all fighters not found in the Top 10 lists, but found elsewhere.

Do your totals and rank.

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People finally realized #1 Mike Thomas Brown defeated #2 Urijah Faber in November and he now has the top spot all to himself.

Why is Faber first then while Brown is second?

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill

by FlyByKnight on Feb 12, 2009 7:06 AM EST reply actions  

Typo

I think you have a typo. Brown should be one according to your text.

by Nick Travaglini on Feb 12, 2009 7:53 AM EST reply actions  

Fix is on the way...
  1. and 2 need to be flipped…

Contributing Editor - BloodyElbow.com - SBNation's mixed martial arts headquarters.

by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 12, 2009 8:49 AM EST reply actions  

Updated

Contributing Editor - BloodyElbow.com - SBNation's mixed martial arts headquarters.

by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 12, 2009 8:59 AM EST up reply actions  

Gah.

Bolts from the Blue // "Game over." - Jamal Williams
Bloody Elbow // "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

by Richard Wade on Feb 12, 2009 9:49 AM EST up reply actions  

But now two guys were #1 last month? CONFUSED.

Don't believe a word I say, I don't train BJJ. -- TangleBones

by jemaleddin on Feb 12, 2009 11:20 AM EST up reply actions  

They were tied.

Bolts from the Blue // "Game over." - Jamal Williams
Bloody Elbow // "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

by Richard Wade on Feb 12, 2009 5:17 PM EST up reply actions  

Word is that Rafael Assuncao is probably going to Bellator or the WEC. I’d prefer him in the WEC, but that’s partially because he would destroy Bellator’s 145 tournament.

"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR

by Rundownloser on Feb 12, 2009 12:02 PM EST reply actions  

Whatever gets him off...

Ironheart Crown shows. I’ve been to a few of them and they’re nice for local events but for a guy like him right now he needs to be fighting on a bigger stage where he can get some attention

Contributing Editor - BloodyElbow.com - SBNation's mixed martial arts headquarters.

by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 12, 2009 1:16 PM EST up reply actions  

Come on Pulver is not 22

He choked out 16 in like 10 seconds.

Losing to Urijah via decision, Garcia by KO, Urijah on like 2 weeks notice submission doesn’t make you the bottom of this list. This ranking is worthless for that alone. Not to mention Curran decided he was moving to 135 oh… LAST JUNE

Gimme 1 Round!

by skwirrl on Feb 12, 2009 12:09 PM EST reply actions  

Pulver and Swanson are both heavily overranked because some people don’t watch much FW MMA outside of the WEC.

I predict Marlon Sandro and Bibiano Fernandez will be counted among the top 10 in a few months.

by smoogy on Feb 12, 2009 4:32 PM EST up reply actions  

I can’t wait for the Sengoku tournament.

"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR

by Rundownloser on Feb 12, 2009 5:47 PM EST up reply actions  

Sandro winning the Pancrase title:

by smoogy on Feb 13, 2009 1:25 AM EST up reply actions  

Wrong. That was for the #1 contender slot. Sandro won the title by decision against J-Taro (Maeda vacated) in October.

by ilostmydog on Feb 13, 2009 3:02 AM EST up reply actions  

Feel free to take that up with the people who ranked them.

Bolts from the Blue // "Game over." - Jamal Williams
Bloody Elbow // "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

by Richard Wade on Feb 12, 2009 5:18 PM EST up reply actions  

Really interesting that someone has Daisuke Nakamura ranked…seeing as how he has never fought at featherweight, and his Dynamite!! fight was open weight.

by AnonymousA on Feb 12, 2009 12:19 PM EST reply actions  

That’s how much of a beast he is.
Daisuke by Flying Arm Bar!

by MMASuPreMaCy on Feb 12, 2009 1:12 PM EST up reply actions  

That's us.

If it was really open-weight, it was an error on our part.

by JCS_FM on Feb 12, 2009 1:26 PM EST up reply actions  

Hideo Tokoro 66.0kg vs. Daisuke Nakamura 67.4kg

Tokoro was 145.5, Nakamura was 148.6.

Our Featherweight goes up to 150 to allow for catchweight bouts. He ranks strongly as a Feather

by JCS_FM on Feb 12, 2009 1:28 PM EST up reply actions  

I still find it odd that people feel the need to rank KID in their FW top tens despite the fact that he has had two straight fights at BW, hasn’t fought in 14 months, and hasn’t faced top ten competition in several years.

by ilostmydog on Feb 12, 2009 2:21 PM EST reply actions  

Yahya isn't a pushover.

But I do agree with the FW/BW designation.

by JCS_FM on Feb 12, 2009 2:28 PM EST up reply actions  

He’s no pushover, but he isn’t exactly a big win either.

by ilostmydog on Feb 13, 2009 12:03 AM EST up reply actions  

He’s 12th at bantamweight in this month’s meta-rankings.

Bolts from the Blue // "Game over." - Jamal Williams
Bloody Elbow // "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

by Richard Wade on Feb 13, 2009 12:05 AM EST up reply actions  

I would imagine he was significantly lower when he lost to KID seeing as how he was coming off a loss to the relatively unheralded (at the time) Chase Beebe, and now he is coming off a win over decent yet maddeningly inconsistent Yoshiro Maeda.

by ilostmydog on Feb 13, 2009 2:55 AM EST up reply actions  

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