USAT/SBN June MMA Consensus Rankings: Bantamweight

Rankings compiled by Richard Wade.

Rank	Fighter	Points	Promotion	Last Rank
1	Dominick Cruz	225	WEC	1
2	Brian Bowles	213	WEC	2
3	Joseph Benavidez	209	WEC	3
4	Miguel Torres	191	WEC	4
5	Scott Jorgensen	177	WEC	5
6	Takeya Mizugaki	167	WEC	6
7	Masakatsu Ueda	141	Shooto	8
8	Wagnney Fabiano	127	WEC	10
9	Rani Yahya	124	WEC	9
10	Charlie Valencia	122	WEC	11
11	Damacio Page	118	WEC	7
12	Masakazu Imanari	117	DEEP	12
13	Shuichiro Katsumura	109	Shooto	13
14	Akitoshi Tamura	101	WEC	14
15	Brad Pickett	89	WEC	15
16	Eddie Wineland	88	WEC	18
17	Abel Cullum	86	KOTC	17
18	Antonio Banuelos	76	WEC	16
19	Jeff Curran	32	Bellator	19
19	Cole Escovedo	32	DREAM	20
21	Yoshiro Maeda	29	DREAM	21
21	Clint Godfrey	29	WEC	22
23	Ian Loveland	27	WEC	23
24	Seiya Kawahara	25	Pancrase	27
25	Kenji Osawa	24	DREAM	34
25	Chase Beebe	24	DREAM	26

The Bantamweight division hasn't been seeing too much significant action in a few months. This will change when #1 Dominick Cruz defends his WEC belt against #3 Joseph Benavidez on August 18.

 

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.

We are now moving to what JCS of Fight Matrix has described as assumed rankings in an attempt to rank fighters who move between weight classes. This has been the biggest problem with the consensus rankings and we believe this new methodology will rectify that.