Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1Jose Aldo100UFC12Chad Mendes92UFC33Hatsu Hioki92UFC24Kenny Florian81UFC45Mark Hominick66UFC66Marlon Sandro65Bellator57Diego Nunes58UFC88Tyson Griffin55UFC99Manny Gamburyan54UFC710Dustin Poirier50UFC1011Joe Warren49Bellator1112Pat Curran44Bellator1913Erik Koch35UFC1514Hiroyuki Takaya35UFC1315Bibiano Fernandes31K-11216Patricio Freire29Bellator1617Michihiro Omigawa29UFC1418Darren Elkins23UFC1819Rani Yahya23UFC1720Mike Brown18UFC2421Robert Peralta17Strikeforce2122Masanori Kanehara16Battle of Moscow2223Kazuyuki Miyata16DREAM2024Takeshi Inoue14DREAM2325Joachim Hansen13DREAM26
UFC 134 is without any relevant featherweight bouts, but UFC Fight Night: Shields vs. Ellenberger will have #13 Erik Koch vs. Jonathan Brookins. Amazingly enough that is the only scheduled bout featuring a top 25 featherweight in the UFC, Strikeforce or Bellator.
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.
