Heavyweight · 2026

Best Heavyweight Control Time per 15 Minutes

Cage control — most seconds spent in a dominant position per 15 minutes of cage time.

Jailton Almeida leads the heavyweight Ctrl / 15 min board at 10.49 seconds / 15 min , followed by Louie Sutherland (10.23) and Valter Walker (8.40) .

Top 25 active heavyweight fighters by career-window Ctrl / 15 min. · See full heavyweight Elo rankings →

1

Jailton Almeida

8-3-0 · 11 UFC fights · #9 division

10.49

Elo 1594
2

Louie Sutherland

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #38 division

10.23

Elo 1432
3

Valter Walker

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #18 division

8.40

Elo 1545
4

Alexandr Romanov

7-3-0 · 10 UFC fights · #13 division

7.32

Elo 1562
5

Mario Pinto

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #12 division

7.05

Elo 1564
6

Curtis Blaydes

14-6-0 · 20 UFC fights · #7 division

6.61

Elo 1610
7

Karl Williams

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

6.49

Elo 1495
8

Tallison Teixeira

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #30 division

6.41

Elo 1471
9

Shamil Gaziev

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #29 division

6.20

Elo 1475
10

Thomas Petersen

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #34 division

5.80

Elo 1444
11

Marcus Buchecha

0-2-1 · 3 UFC fights · #37 division

5.07

Elo 1432
12

Serghei Spivac

9-6-0 · 15 UFC fights · #17 division

4.93

Elo 1546
13

Vitor Petrino

7-2-0 · 9 UFC fights · #15 division

4.86

Elo 1554
14

Marcin Tybura

14-10-0 · 24 UFC fights · #21 division

4.28

Elo 1526
15

Josh Hokit

4-0-0 · 4 UFC fights · #6 division

4.24

Elo 1613
16

Tom Aspinall C

8-1-0 · 9 UFC fights · #4 division

4.17

Elo 1654
17

Hamdy Abdelwahab

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #28 division

3.93

Elo 1477
18

Ryan Spann

10-6-0 · 16 UFC fights · #20 division

3.53

Elo 1532
19

Martin Buday

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #11 division

3.48

Elo 1565
20

Rodrigo Nascimento

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #22 division

3.34

Elo 1507
21

Mohammed Usman

4-2-0 · 6 UFC fights · #26 division

2.83

Elo 1482
22

Kennedy Nzechukwu

8-6-1 · 15 UFC fights · #24 division

2.70

Elo 1494
23

Mick Parkin

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #19 division

2.40

Elo 1542
24

Don'Tale Mayes

4-7-0 · 11 UFC fights · #41 division

2.18

Elo 1407
25

Tai Tuivasa

8-10-0 · 18 UFC fights · #31 division

1.87

Elo 1454

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Career averages, calculated over a fighter's full UFC sample. Provisional fighters (fewer than 4 UFC bouts) and retired fighters are excluded so the leaderboards reflect a real career, not a one-fight outlier. Stat data sourced from UFCStats via our daily pipeline. Updated Jun 20, 2026.