LOS ANGELES —Bellator MMA delights in to reveal the company will certainly execute a main fighter rankings system for each and every of its weight courses, in enhancement to a pound-for-pound checklist for both the males’s as well as females’s departments, in thecoming weeks The authorities Bellator MMA Fighter Rankings will certainly be identified by a 15-person ballot panel, made up specifically of participants of the MMA media.
“This is the greatest roster in the history of Bellator,” claimedBellator MMA President Scott Coker “As we continue to sign the top free agents in the sport and see the success of young prospects inside the Bellator cage, we felt that the time was right to introduce official fighter rankings. We are always looking at ways to improve our product and this adds a new and exciting aspect to the organization that will have a significant impact on how fans watch Bellator. Every division is competitive, every matchup is important, and we are set for several potential blockbusters as we begin a new year on Showtime.”
Votes will certainly be cast for qualified boxers adhering to each Bellator live occasion as well as outcomes will certainly be revealed. To make sure openness, the inventory of ballots will certainly be looked after exclusively by a third-party business, Combat Registry.
The first rankings will certainly be launched in the days leading up to Bellator’s return to activity as well as launching on OUTSET Friday, April 2 with Bellator 255: Pitbull vs. Sanchez 2 at 9 p.m. ET.
Information describing fighter qualification, along with extra ballot standards, is listed here:
Bellator Divisional Rankings:
- Top 10 fighter rankings will certainly be elected on in 9 Bellator MMA weight courses, in enhancement to 2 pound-for-pound listings.
- Champions of each department will certainly be immediately appointed to the Champions port atop the rankings.
- Fighters in 7 males’s departments will certainly be rated, consisting of:
- Heavyweight
- Light Heavyweight
- Middleweight
- Welterweight
- Lightweight
- Featherweight
- Bantamweight
- Fighters in 2 females’s departments will certainly be rated, consisting of:
- Featherweight
- Flyweight
- Two pound-for-pound listings will certainly be elected on, consisting of:
- Men’s
- Women’s
New Fighter Eligibility:
- A fighter needs to have completed when inside the Bellator cage on a present term with the business to be qualified.
Inactivity:
- A fighter is qualified to be rated for up to 15-months without completing.
Retirement
- A fighter continues to be qualified for 60 days after a sign of retired life, with the company inevitably figuring out if the fighter continues to be energetic as well as qualified.
Multiple Weight Classes:
- A fighter is enabled to be proactively rated in 2 various weight courses as well as is qualified to be rated in an extra weight course once they have actually completed a minimum of when in that department.
- A fighter needs to proactively complete in each weight course– a duration of lack of exercise much longer than 15 months in a strengthened course will certainly result in the elimination from that certain weight course, however not always from an additional department or the general rankings swimming pool.
- With the exemption being that a fighter is proactively getting involved in a World Grand Prix event in a various weight course.
Removal/Ineligibility:
- A fighter offering a non-medical suspension from a looking after governing body and/or the company for longer than 6 months will certainly be eliminated from rankings qualification. A fighter will certainly continue to be qualified with a suspension of 6 months or less.
Fighter Rankings Pool:
- The last checklist of qualified boxers, as well as the weight courses in which they are qualified to be rated, will inevitably be identified by the company.
Voting Frequency:
- New Bellator rankings will just be elected on after every occasion, despite regularity.
- Votes will certainly schedule the Monday adhering to a Bellator live occasion.
First-Place Votes:
- Each rankings duration will certainly expose the amount of top competitor ballots each fighter obtained.
Voting Tabulation:
- Tabulation of ballots will certainly be taken care of specifically by Combat Registry, a third-party independent of Bellator MMA.
Voting Panel:
- Bellator fighter rankings will certainly be elected on specifically by media participants within the MMA market.
- In no ability, will certainly Bellator personnel, professional athletes, ability or various other company employees get involved in ballot.
The inaugural ballot panel will certainly consist of the adhering to participants of the media:
- Jeff Cain– MMA Weekly
- Brian Campbell– CBS Sports
- Rodrigo Del Campo– Claro Sports
- Rob DeMello– KHON Hawaii
- Jason Floyd– The MMA Report
- George Garcia– MMA Junkie
- Amy Kaplan– FanSided
- Nolan King– MMA Junkie
- John Hyon Ko– South China Morning Post
- Mark LaMonica– Newsday
- Igor Lazarin– TASS Russia
- Shakiel Mahjouri– Fightful MMA
- Joe McDonagh– Cageside Press
- John Morgan– MMA Junkie
- Ken Pishna– MMA Weekly
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