The UFC’s bantamweight division is a hard one to sort out. First, you’ve got champion Dominick Cruz, but he’s injured. So, in his place, you’ve got interim belt-holder Renan Barao. But now he’s injured, too.
So what do you have now? Well, you could put the whole division on suspended animation—or you could get the contender line as orderly as possible so that it’s ready to go when one and/or both titlists come back.
These are the 10 guys in the line, and an assessment of whether they are a contender or a pretender. To avoid unnecessary digressions, I’m using the official UFC rankings, as voted on by a panel of selected media members. Got a problem, take it up with them.