Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Control Time per 15 Minutes

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

Julius Walker leads the light heavyweight Ctrl / 15 min board at 8.20 seconds / 15 min , followed by Austen Lane (6.33) and Jimmy Crute (6.02) .

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

1

Julius Walker

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #29 division

8.20

Elo 1434
2

Austen Lane

1-5-0 · 6 UFC fights · #39 division

6.33

Elo 1370
3

Jimmy Crute

6-4-2 · 12 UFC fights · #16 division

6.02

Elo 1533
4

Bruno Lopes

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #30 division

5.97

Elo 1424
5

Nikita Krylov

12-9-0 · 21 UFC fights · #17 division

5.48

Elo 1532
6

Oumar Sy

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #27 division

5.09

Elo 1474
7

Aleksandar Rakic

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #20 division

4.76

Elo 1513
8

Tuco Tokkos

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #38 division

4.38

Elo 1394
9

Magomed Ankalaev

12-2-1 · 15 UFC fights · #2 division

4.08

Elo 1654
10

Ivan Erslan

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #31 division

3.60

Elo 1412
11

Alonzo Menifield

11-6-1 · 18 UFC fights · #11 division

3.50

Elo 1547
12

Ion Cutelaba

9-11-1 · 21 UFC fights · #28 division

3.48

Elo 1468
13

Da Woon Jung

4-4-1 · 9 UFC fights · #24 division

3.31

Elo 1496
14

Zhang Mingyang

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #26 division

2.74

Elo 1479
15

Navajo Stirling

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #4 division

2.69

Elo 1604
16

Billy Elekana

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #18 division

2.41

Elo 1520
17

Iwo Baraniewski

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #10 division

2.38

Elo 1554
18

Bogdan Guskov

4-1-1 · 6 UFC fights · #9 division

2.15

Elo 1569
19

Rodolfo Bellato

2-1-1 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

2.10

Elo 1497
20

Jan Blachowicz

12-8-2 · 22 UFC fights · #8 division

2.01

Elo 1573
21

Jiri Prochazka

6-3-0 · 9 UFC fights · #7 division

1.83

Elo 1575
22

Ovince Saint Preux

15-13-0 · 28 UFC fights · #25 division

1.73

Elo 1492
23

Volkan Oezdemir

9-7-0 · 16 UFC fights · #14 division

1.67

Elo 1535
24

Modestas Bukauskas

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #22 division

1.64

Elo 1510
25

Diyar Nurgozhay

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #33 division

1.60

Elo 1410

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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.