Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1Dominick Cruz100UFC12Joseph Benavidez92UFC23Brian Bowles91UFC34Urijah Faber90UFC45Demetrious Johnson83UFC66Scott Jorgensen80UFC57Miguel Torres70UFC78Brad Pickett63UFC99Takeya Mizugaki50UFC810Masakatsu Ueda45Shooto1011Renan Barao39UFC1612Eddie Wineland38UFC1213Wagnney Fabiano37UFC1114Michael McDonald30UFC1315Zach Makovsky26Bellator1716Damacio Page25UFC1417Masakazu Imanari24DREAM1518Antonio Banuelos20UFC1819Takafumi Otsuka20DEEP1920Hideo Tokoro19UFC2621Joe Warren17Bellator2322Charlie Valencia14UFC2023Ian Loveland13UFC2324Shuichiro Katsumura13Shooto2125Ivan Menjivar13UFC26
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.
