USAT/SBN July 2011 MMA Consensus Rankings: Bantamweight

by Richard Wade on Jul 30, 2011 8:45 AM EDT in MMA Rankings

Rank	Fighter	%	Promotion	Last Rank
1	Dominick Cruz	100	UFC	1
2	Joseph Benavidez	92	UFC	2
3	Brian Bowles	91	UFC	3
4	Urijah Faber	90	UFC	4
5	Demetrious Johnson	83	UFC	6
6	Scott Jorgensen	80	UFC	5
7	Miguel Torres	70	UFC	7
8	Brad Pickett	63	UFC	9
9	Takeya Mizugaki	50	UFC	8
10	Masakatsu Ueda	45	Shooto	10
11	Renan Barao	39	UFC	16
12	Eddie Wineland	38	UFC	12
13	Wagnney Fabiano	37	UFC	11
14	Michael McDonald	30	UFC	13
15	Zach Makovsky	26	Bellator	17
16	Damacio Page	25	UFC	14
17	Masakazu Imanari	24	DREAM	15
18	Antonio Banuelos	20	UFC	18
19	Takafumi Otsuka	20	DEEP	19
20	Hideo Tokoro	19	DREAM	26
21	Joe Warren	17	Bellator	23
22	Charlie Valencia	14	UFC	20
23	Ian Loveland	13	UFC	23
24	Shuichiro Katsumura	13	Shooto	21
25	Ivan Menjivar	13	UFC	26

After defending his belt against #4 Urijah Faber in a fight of the year candidate, #1 Dominick Cruz will look to repeat the feat against #5 Demetrious Johnson at Versus 6.

Versus 5 will also feature high level bantamweights as #12 Eddie Wineland tries to reach contender status with a win over #2 Joseph Benavidez.

Former champion #3 Brian Bowles and #4 Urijah Faber will meet at UFC 139 in what has to be a #1 contender's match.

#6 Scott Jorgensen will welcome Jeff Curran back to the UFC at UFC 137.

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.