USA TODAY/MMA Nation October 2011 Consensus Rankings: Featherweight

by Richard Wade on Oct 27, 2011 6:00 PM EDT

Rank	Fighter	%	Promotion	Last Rank
1	Jose Aldo	100	UFC	1
2	Chad Mendes	92	UFC	3
3	Hatsu Hioki	91	UFC	2
4	Pat Curran	73	Bellator	5
5	Kenny Florian	71	UFC	4
6	Marlon Sandro	64	Bellator	6
7	Mark Hominick	63	UFC	7
8	Diego Nunes	60	UFC	8
9	Tyson Griffin	59	UFC	9
10	Erik Koch	50	UFC	11
11	Manny Gamburyan	46	UFC	10
12	Dustin Poirier	41	UFC	12
13	Joe Warren	34	Bellator	13
14	Hiroyuki Takaya	33		14
15	Tatsuya Kawajiri	29		19
16	Patricio Freire	29	Bellator	17
17	Michihiro Omigawa	26	UFC	15
18	Rani Yahya	26		18
18	Bibiano Fernandes	25		16
20	Darren Elkins	23	UFC	20
21	Robert Peralta	19	UFC	21
22	Mike Brown	16	UFC	23
23	Kazuyuki Miyata	16		25
24	Masanori Kanehara	16		24
25	Takeshi Inoue	14		22

This weekend's UFC 137 has two fantastic featherweight bouts scheduled. #9 Tyson Griffin will take on unranked Bart Palaszewski on SpikeTV and the main card will feature #3 Hatsu Hioki vs. unranked George Roop.

UFC 138 offers up the continually overrated #17 Michihiro Omigawa vs. Jason Young.

The UFC on Fox undercard has two fights including ranked featherweights. #12 Dustin Poirier and #21 Robert Peralta will both take on unranked opposition.

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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Matrix really needs to fix their junk

Kawajiri is the #2FW in the world? cmonson.jpg ALso madmen joining the insanity. wtf.
Wow, Genia sure loves him some DREAM featherweights… Takaya and Fernandes #2 and 3? Damn.

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by Cory Braiterman on Oct 27, 2011 7:26 PM EDT reply actions

Genia’s FW rankings are all kinds of crazy

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by Baby Wads on Oct 27, 2011 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks for the kind works

Junk :)

Seriously though. Top guy moves into weaker division, becomes elite guy.. at least with our system.

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by JCS_FM on Oct 28, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions

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by JCS_FM on Oct 28, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Second that sentiment

Kawajiri was a borderline Top 10 lightweight, and has moved down in weight from one of the strongest divisions in MMA to one of the weakest. Tyson Griffin lost his way out of the Top 25 lightweight rankings before he moved to 145, beat Gamburyan by majority decision, and is now a consensus Top 10 featherweight.

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by MMAmadman on Oct 29, 2011 3:24 AM EDT up reply actions

Really, really surprised that Roop isn’t ranked.

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by Derek Suboticki on Oct 27, 2011 9:58 PM EDT reply actions