Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1Jose Aldo100UFC12Hatsu Hioki92WVR23Chad Mendes91UFC34Manny Gamburyan82UFC45Marlon Sandro76Bellator56Diego Nunes69UFC67Mark Hominick67UFC88Michihiro Omigawa66UFC79Dustin Poirier52UFC910Bibiano Fernandes48K-11011Joe Warren45Bellator1112Erik Koch41UFC1313Hiroyuki Takaya41Strikeforce1214Josh Grispi36UFC1415Rani Yahya31UFC1516Kazuyuki Miyata26K-11617Masanori Kanehara25WVR1718Patricio Freire24Bellator1819Yoshiro Maeda22WVR2020Mike Brown20UFC1821Robert Peralta19Strikeforce2222Raphael Assuncao16UFC2123Yuji Hoshino14WVR2924Takeshi Inoue14Shooto2525Koichiro Matsumoto13DEEP3125Luis Palomino13Champions Fighting AllianceNR
#1 Jose Aldo actually made the division more interesting with his poor finish to an otherwise dominant performance against #7 Mark Hominick at UFC 129.
#3 Chad Mendes will stay busy against #15 Rani Yahya at UFC 133 following Aldo's withdrawal due to inadequate preparation time.
#4 Manny Gamburyan will welcome Tyson Griffin to the featherweight division at UFC on Versus 4.
#6 Diego Nunes will similarly welcome Kenny Florian who is making his featherweight debut at UFC 131.
UFC 131 will also feature #7 Michihiro Omigawa vs. Darren Elkins.
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.
