USAT/SBN February MMA Consensus Rankings: Featherweight
by Luke Thomas on Feb 25, 2010 3:59 PM EST
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| Rank | Fighter | % | Promotion | Last Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jose Aldo | 100 | WEC | 1 |
| 2 | Mike Brown | 96 | WEC | 2 |
| 3 | Urijah Faber | 92 | WEC | 3 |
| 4 | Hatsu Hioki | 83 | WVR | 4 |
| 5 | Bibiano Fernandes | 75 | DREAM | 5 |
| 6 | Rafael Assuncao | 73 | WEC | 8 |
| 7 | Manny Gamburyan | 66 | WEC | 7 |
| 8 | Michihiro Omigawa | 65 | K-1 | 6 |
| 9 | Marlon Sandro | 55 | WVR | 11 |
| 10 | Masanori Kanehara | 53 | K-1 | 9 |
| 11 | Josh Grispi | 47 | WEC | 10 |
| 12 | Takeshi Inoue | 42 | Shooto | 13 |
| 13 | Leonard Garcia | 35 | WEC | 18 |
| 14 | Deividas Taurosevicius | 35 | WEC | 14 |
| 15 | Wagnney Fabiano | 30 | WEC | 12 |
| 16 | Joachim Hansen | 29 | DREAM | NR |
| 17 | Mark Hominick | 30 | WEC | 16 |
| 18 | Yuji Hoshino | 30 | WVR | 20 |
| 19 | Hiroyuki Takaya | 29 | DREAM | 17 |
| 20 | Takafumi Otsuka | 28 | DEEP | 22 |
| 21 | Kazuyuki Miyata | 28 | DREAM | 23 |
| 22 | Joe Soto | 27 | Bellator | 15 |
| 23 | Erik Koch | 27 | WEC | 26 |
| 24 | Atsushi Yamamoto | 26 | DEEP | 29 |
| 25 | Mackens Semerzier | 26 | WEC | 31 |
Rankings compiled by Richard Wade.
Nothing changed from last month, Nova Unaio still stips atop the featherweight division.
There's been only a fair amount of movement since WEC 44 when #1 Jose Aldo wrestled away the title from #2 Mike Brown. But matters are about to change. The WEC has announced WEC 48 where #3 Urijah Faber will challenge Aldo for the featherweight crown. He earned his shot after stopping #6 Rafael Assuncao.
As for Brown, he's slated to lock horns on the same WEC 48 card - by the way, the first WEC card to hit PPV - with #7 Manny Gamburyan.
Strangely, #4 Hatsu Hioki still sits in the fourth spot after getting robbed by the judges in a losing effort to #8 Michihiro Omigawa in Sengoku Raiden Championships. No word yet on where either fights is headed as Hioki has remained silent while Omigawa's Yoshida Dojo seems no longer involved with SRC. Stay tuned for more information.
DREAM Featherweight Grand Prix winner #5 Bibiano Fernandes stays in the fifth spot this month. He is slated to take on Joachim Hansen at DREAM 13 in March. This will be Hansen's first fight at 145lbs and won't be an easy transition.
As for #9 Marlon Sandro, he gets a chance to get back in the winning column unless the judges decide to continue making mistakes. That should prove more difficult this time, however. Sandro will take on Cage Force and Pancrase veteran, Tomonari Kanomata at Sengoku 12, which will take place on March 7. The fight will air HDNet in North America.
#10 Masanori Kanehara drops a spot but stays in the top 10. Kanehara is hanging on to top 10 relevance when he won a major fight and upset Norifumi Yamamoto.
Based on the premise that all MMA rankings are subjective but that it’s still useful and informative to know who the online MMA community as a whole ranks as the best fighters in MMA, we collect and average the rankings of the top MMA websites to produce our consensus rankings.
We compile the top MMA rankings from each of our sources and award 25 points 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. This formula ensures that each ranking site awards the same number of total points regardless of how many fighters they choose to rank. Each fighter’s total is divided by the number of possible points to determine their standing in the Consensus Rankings.
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lol
not a lot of heat on this one.
can’t remember the last time a post on BE got zero comments.
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Honestly there’s not much to say on these rankings, because when you do people act like your taking a shot at BE when in reality it’s the fact that alot of sites rankings suck.
nor does it seem to slow down the complaints about Ray Mercer being ranked
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He lost his last fight to Taurosevicius.
Bolts from the Blue // "He looks like a catfish" - Nick Hardwick on Brandon Siler
Bloody Elbow // " looks like your comment violated rule #4. and it’s a heck of a rule, rule #4" - Kid Nate
by Richard Wade on Feb 25, 2010 8:43 PM EST up reply actions
He’d never done anything before that, though, so it makes some sense that following it up with a loss to a non-top 25 opponent would drop him rather far. It makes his win over Fabiano look more like a fluke.
Bolts from the Blue // "He looks like a catfish" - Nick Hardwick on Brandon Siler
Bloody Elbow // " looks like your comment violated rule #4. and it’s a heck of a rule, rule #4" - Kid Nate
by Richard Wade on Feb 26, 2010 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
Unfortunately the Serra effect only works with championship fights.
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
by lowellthehammer on Feb 25, 2010 9:45 PM EST up reply actions
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