Lightweight · 2026

Best Lightweight Control Time per 15 Minutes

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

Grant Dawson leads the lightweight Ctrl / 15 min board at 9.76 seconds / 15 min , followed by Nurullo Aliev (7.60) and Benoit Saint Denis (7.14) .

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

1

Grant Dawson

12-2-1 · 15 UFC fights · #6 division

9.76

Elo 1642
2

Nurullo Aliev

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #21 division

7.60

Elo 1558
3

Benoit Saint Denis

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #9 division

7.14

Elo 1622
4

Terrance McKinney

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #41 division

6.80

Elo 1508
5

Claudio Puelles

5-4-0 · 9 UFC fights · #46 division

6.69

Elo 1496
6

Joe Solecki

5-4-0 · 9 UFC fights · #42 division

6.54

Elo 1504
7

Arman Tsarukyan

10-2-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

6.35

Elo 1661
8

Beneil Dariush

17-8-1 · 26 UFC fights · #13 division

6.10

Elo 1594
9

Damon Jackson

6-6-1 · 13 UFC fights · #56 division

6.10

Elo 1472
10

Clay Guida

18-19-0 · 37 UFC fights · #61 division

5.54

Elo 1457
11

Quillan Salkilld

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #7 division

5.29

Elo 1634
12

Chase Hooper

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #45 division

5.26

Elo 1496
13

Jared Gordon

9-8-0 · 17 UFC fights · #48 division

5.20

Elo 1487
14

Charles Oliveira

25-11-0 · 36 UFC fights · #2 division

5.19

Elo 1686
15

Anshul Jubli

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #82 division

4.90

Elo 1405
16

Mateusz Gamrot

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #10 division

4.85

Elo 1609
17

Francis Marshall

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #60 division

4.78

Elo 1458
18

Mike Davis

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #27 division

4.30

Elo 1547
19

Fares Ziam

8-3-0 · 11 UFC fights · #26 division

4.08

Elo 1552
20

Charlie Campbell

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #53 division

3.96

Elo 1478
21

Trey Ogden

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #55 division

3.96

Elo 1474
22

Mason Jones

4-2-0 · 6 UFC fights · #43 division

3.96

Elo 1503
23

Mateusz Rebecki

4-4-0 · 8 UFC fights · #44 division

3.93

Elo 1497
24

Ludovit Klein

8-3-1 · 12 UFC fights · #18 division

3.87

Elo 1563
25

Vinc Pichel

7-5-0 · 12 UFC fights · #39 division

3.67

Elo 1511

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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.