USA TODAY/MMA Nation November 2011 Consensus Rankings: Featherweight

by Richard Wade on Dec 3, 2011 4:01 PM EST in MMA Rankings

Rank	Fighter	Points	Promotion	Last Rank
1	Jose Aldo	400	UFC	1
2	Chad Mendes	369	UFC	2
3	Hatsu Hioki	362	UFC	3
4	Pat Curran	315	Bellator	4
5	Marlon Sandro	281	Bellator	6
6	Diego Nunes	248	UFC	8
7	Kenny Florian	234	UFC	5
8	Mark Hominick	231	UFC	7
9	Dustin Poirier	223	UFC	12
10	Erik Koch	205	UFC	10
11	Bart Palaszewski	167	UFC	NR
12	Manny Gamburyan	146	UFC	11
13	Tyson Griffin	135	UFC	9
14	Hiroyuki Takaya	134	DREAM	14
15	Patricio Freire	133	Bellator	16
16	Tatsuya Kawajiri	132	DREAM	15
17	Joe Warren	121	Bellator	13
18	Darren Elkins	101	UFC	20
19	Michihiro Omigawa	99	UFC	17
20	Robert Peralta	97	UFC	21
21	Bibiano Fernandes	96	DREAM	18
22	Rani Yahya	89	UFC	18
23	Ricardo Lamas	69	UFC	36
24	Masanori Kanehara	69	XPlode Fight Series	24
25	Mike Brown	66	UFC	22
25	Kazuyuki Miyata	66	DREAM	23

DREAM's New Year's Eve event will feature two high level featherweight clashes between #16 Tatsuya Kawajiri and #25 Kazuyuki Miyata as well as between #28 Takeshi Inoue and #14 Hiroyuki Takaya.

UFC 141 will feature #34 Junior Assuncao welcoming Ross Pearson to the featherweight division.

#8 Mark Hominick will return to the Octagon for the first time since challenging #1 Jose Aldo when he takes on #38 Chan Sung Jung at UFC 140.

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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still just a cluster

of fucks.

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by Cory Braiterman on Dec 1, 2011 6:38 PM EST reply actions

Curran and Sandro should be down there around Patricio and Warren

Peralta should be above Takaya

Or Takaya should be below Peralta

But either way, it’s a CRIME that Peralta is still 6 spots behind…if you are going to put him behind a fighter he beat in April, and a fighter who has been less active then him SINCE that fight…it should be by no more then a spot or two.

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by Chris Groves on Dec 3, 2011 4:11 PM EST reply actions

Jim Genia

What the fuck were you thinking

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by Our Bovine Public on Dec 3, 2011 4:33 PM EST reply actions

hioki should have dropped for his pitiful performance over an unranked opponent

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by dbcb on Dec 3, 2011 4:57 PM EST reply actions

Good for Palaszewski, he should make a bit of a splash, he’ll be top 5 by the end of the year, hopefully he can get a name like Florian under his belt in 2012.

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by Chris Sarda on Dec 3, 2011 7:02 PM EST reply actions