MMA Bantamweight Rankings

FIGHTBOMB.COM's MMA BANTAMWEIGHT RANKINGS (135lbs)
*Next Fight May be Official or Rumors
*Updated: 2010-09-02

Moved Up In The Rankings Due To Recent Performance
Moved Down In The Rankings Due To Recent Performance

	RANKED FIGHTER	W-L	ORGANIZATION	NEXT FIGHT DATE
1	Dominick Cruz	16-1	WEC
2	Urijah Faber	23-4	WEC	11/11 vs Takeya Mizugaki
3	Joseph Benavidez	12-2	WEC
4	Brian Bowles	8-1	WEC	11/11 vs Wagnney Fabiano
5	Miguel Torres	37-3	WEC	9/30 vs Charlie Valencia
6	Norifumi Yamamoto	18-3	DREAM	9/25 vs TBA
7	Scott Jorgensen	11-3	WEC
8	Takeya Mizugaki	13-4	WEC	11/11 vs Urijah Faber
9	Wagnney Fabiano	14-2	WEC	11/11 vs Brian Bowles
10	Masakazu Imanari	20-7	DEEP
11	Rani Yahya	15-6	WEC
12	Damacio Page	15-4	WEC
13	Masakatsu Ueda	11-1	SHOOTO
14	Charlie Valencia	12-5	WEC	9/30 vs Miguel Torres
15	Eddie Wineland	17-6	WEC
16	Antonio Banuelos	17-6	WEC	9/30 vs Chad George
17	Kenji Osawa	16-9	DREAM
18	Brad Pickett	19-5	WEC
19	Shuichiro Katsumura	11-7	SHOOTO
20	Koetsdu Okazaki	7-1	SHOOTO
21	Renan Barao	23-1	WEC
22	Eduardo Dantas	9-2	SHOOTO
23	Clint Godfrey	11-2	WEC	9/30 vs Demetrious Johnson
24	Michael McDonald	10-1	FREE AGENT
25	Cole Escovedo	16-5	FREE AGENT
26	Yoshiro Maeda	26-9	DREAM
27	Jeff Curran	31-13	FREE AGENT
28	Atsushi Yamamoto	14-6	DEEP
29	Chris Cariaso	10-1	WEC
30	Motonobu Tezuka	14-3	PANCRASE
31	Akiyo Nishiura	11-5	DREAM
32	Akitoshi Tamura	14-9	SHOOTO	10/20 vs TBA
33	Hideo Tokoro	26-22	DREAM	9/25 vs TBA
34	Abel Cullum	18-3	FREE AGENT
35	Manabu Inoue	9-5	PANCRASE	9/5 vs Tashiro Nishiuchi
36	Paul McVeigh	17-6	FREE AGENT
37	Anthony Leone	8-1	BELLATOR	9/9 vs Georgi Karakhanyan
38	Hiroshi Nakamura	10-4	DEEP
39	Seiya Kawahara	9-2	PANCRASE
40	Rumina Sato	26-14	SHOOTO

HONORABLE MENTION
WEC
Demetrious Johnson (5-1) // Frank Gomez (8-2) // Will Campuzano (8-2)
Coty Wheeler (12-3) // Chad George (11-5) // Rafael Rebello (6-4)
SENGOKU
Shintaro Ishiwatari (9-3) // Shoko Sato (9-3) // Shunichi Shimizu (17-6) // Wataru Takahashi (12-13)
Taiyo Nakahara (10-6) // Jae Hyun So (6-8) // Takuya Eizumi (7-6) // Tatsuya So (6-5)
BELLATOR
Travis Reddinger (14-2) // Ed West (13-4) // Ulysses Gomez (6-1) // Jose Vega (8-3)
Zach Makovsky (9-2) // Danny Tims (9-2) // Bryan Goldsby (12-11) // Nick Mamalis (10-4)
SHOOTO
Ranki Kawana (12-3) // Hiromasa Ogikubo (6-2) // Tetsu Suzuki (10-8) // Teriyuki Matsumoto (7-3)
So Tazawa (8-6) // Rodolfo Marques (8-1) // Masato Sannai (4-1)
PANCRASE
Tashiro Nishiuchi (14-6) // Masahiro Oishi (20-14)
DEEP
Tomoya Miyashita (17-8) // Tomohiko Hori (11-9) // Isao Terada (8-10)
FREE AGENTS
Travis Marx (15-1) // Justin Cruz (16-4) // Mike Easton (10-1) // Edwin Figueroa (7-0)|
Will Ribeiro (10-2) // Marcos Galvao (7-3) // Manny Tapia (10-4) // Chase Beebe (13-6)
Noah Thomas (13-6) // Keisuke Fujiwara (9-2) // Sidemar Honorio (6-0) // David Aranda (5-0)
Roland Delorme (6-0) // Johnny Bedford (16-9) // Jarrod Card (12-4) // Jeff Bedard (12-3)
Michael Mortimer (12-3) // Jesse Brock (12-5) // Takeshi Numajiri (6-2) // Mark Oshiro (12-3)

Comments

#11 D-Rod 2010-08-24 20:34

I hear Jorgensen is in line for the 1st title shot, ahead of Faber and Torres. True?

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#10 Chris Flores 2010-08-23 12:49

Otsuka is currently #33 ranked as a featherweight. When did he fight below 140lbs?

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#9 mendez 2010-01-07 12:48

Quoting alex:

fightbomb.... where would you rank Otsuka as a bantamweight? top 10? if chad beats him where would he be ranked.... interested. any insight as to how this would play-out at otsuka's new weight?

also robichaux is not a free agent... he is on a 3 fight deal with shine. i'm not sure about otsuka but i do know him and robichaux are fighting in shine III at 135lbs.

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#8 alex 2010-01-03 01:37

fightbomb.... where would you rank Otsuka as a bantamweight? top 10? if chad beats him where would he be ranked.... interested. any insight as to how this would play-out at otsuka's new weight?

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#7 Rick 2010-01-03 01:34

Quoting Rick:

Quoting Chris Flores:
Quoting Alex:
I hear he is Fighting Manny Tapia in March on Shine's PPV show.

that sounds like a great fight
Shine has been pulling some big free agents
and good fight cards

Just heard he will be fighting Dream vet,Takafumi Otsuka from Japan... a STUD! He just pulled a win over Mishima and took the DEEP Title Belt.

Otsuka is normally 145 but i guess he will be 135 in the USA... chad robichaux is a beast at 135 and has sick subs and hvy hands so this should be a good one but i think otsuka may pull off a decision. otsuka has been thru some wars and big wins.

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#6 Rick 2010-01-03 01:31

Quoting Chris Flores:

Quoting Alex:
I hear he is Fighting Manny Tapia in March on Shine's PPV show.

that sounds like a great fight
Shine has been pulling some big free agents
and good fight cards

Just heard he will be fighting Dream vet,Takafumi Otsuka from Japan... a STUD! He just pulled a win over Mishima and took the DEEP Title Belt.

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#5 Chris Flores 2009-12-11 03:03

Quoting Alex:

I hear he is Fighting Manny Tapia in March on Shine's PPV show.

that sounds like a great fight
Shine has been pulling some big free agents
and good fight cards

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#4 Alex 2009-12-08 16:40

I hear he is Fighting Manny Tapia in March on Shine's PPV show.

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#3 Ti 2009-12-04 17:41

Great rankings!

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#2 Richy Lujan 2009-11-30 22:10

Impressive numbers on Robo. he's now been added. and that is the first i've heard of him. bad ass nickname.

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