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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.

Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev leads the light heavyweight Ctrl / 15 min board at 10.07 seconds / 15 min , followed by Julius Walker (8.17) and Austen Lane (6.24) .

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

Control Time per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev
    3-0-0 3 fights #12
    10.07
  2. 2
    Julius Walker
    1-3-0 4 fights #32
    8.17
  3. 3
    Austen Lane
    1-5-0 7 fights #40
    6.24
  4. 4
    Jimmy Crute
    6-4-2 12 fights #16
    6.02
  5. 5
    Nikita Krylov
    12-10-0 22 fights #18
    5.30
  6. 6
    Oumar Sy
    3-2-0 5 fights #28
    5.09
  7. 7
    Bruno Lopes
    1-3-0 4 fights #38
    5.03
  8. 8
    Tuco Tokkos
    1-3-0 4 fights #39
    4.38
  9. 9
    Magomed Ankalaev
    13-2-1 17 fights #2
    4.26
  10. 10
    Ivan Erslan
    1-3-0 4 fights #31
    3.60
  11. 11
    Alonzo Menifield
    11-6-1 18 fights #13
    3.50
  12. 12
    Ion Cutelaba
    9-11-1 21 fights #29
    3.48
  13. 13
    Da Woon Jung
    4-4-1 9 fights #25
    3.31
  14. 14
    Navajo Stirling
    6-0-0 6 fights #4
    2.81
  15. 15
    Zhang Mingyang
    3-2-0 5 fights #27
    2.74
  16. 16
    Billy Elekana
    3-1-0 4 fights #19
    2.41
  17. 17
    Iwo Baraniewski
    3-0-0 3 fights #10
    2.38
  18. 18
    Rodolfo Bellato
    2-1-1 5 fights #24
    2.17
  19. 19
    Jan Blachowicz
    12-9-2 23 fights #9
    1.99
  20. 20
    Jiri Prochazka
    6-3-0 9 fights #8
    1.83
  21. 21
    Ovince Saint Preux
    15-13-0 28 fights #26
    1.73
  22. 22
    Volkan Oezdemir
    9-7-0 16 fights #15
    1.67
  23. 23
    Modestas Bukauskas
    8-5-0 13 fights #23
    1.64
  24. 24
    Azamat Murzakanov
    6-1-0 7 fights #5
    1.45
  25. 25
    Bogdan Guskov
    4-2-1 7 fights #11
    1.41
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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 Aug 15, 2026.