EA Sports UFC 5: see who the five best bantamweights are in the new UFC video game

Sean O'Malley (left) fighting aljamain sterling (dir.) in UFC 292. Photo: Reproduction/Instagram

We are counting down. With only ten days left until the long-awaited launch of EA Sports UFC 5, Ultimate's new video game, attributes and ratings of fighters from some of the organization's categories were released, including the men's bantamweight (up to 61,2kg).

The division led by Sean O'Malley, who won the belt by knocking out aljamain sterling in August this year, its main representatives in the video game, in addition to the champion and former champion: the North American Cory Sandhagen, the Ecuadorian Marlon Vera and the Georgian Merab Dvalishvili. Names like Henry Cejudo e Petr yan were outside the top 5.

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The EA Sports UFC 5 attributes and ratings system evaluates fighters based on their striking, grappling and health, then giving an overall grade within a five-star system.

All five of the best bantamweight representatives in the video game received the same amount of four and a half stars, but with some differences in the distribution of attributes.

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EA Sports UFC 5 will be released on October 27th and will be available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Anyone who purchases the 'Deluxe' edition of the game will have early access from October 24th.