Middleweight · 2026

Best Middleweight Control Time per 15 Minutes

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

Khamzat Chimaev leads the middleweight Ctrl / 15 min board at 8.48 seconds / 15 min , followed by Anthony Hernandez (7.85) and Cam Rowston (7.18) .

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

1

Khamzat Chimaev

9-1-0 · 10 UFC fights · #2 division

8.48

Elo 1676
2

Anthony Hernandez

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #13 division

7.85

Elo 1602
3

Cam Rowston

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #16 division

7.18

Elo 1567
4

Jacob Malkoun

6-2-0 · 8 UFC fights · #27 division

6.85

Elo 1546
5

Ryan Loder

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #61 division

6.78

Elo 1418
6

Kyle Daukaus

4-5-0 · 9 UFC fights · #45 division

5.98

Elo 1455
7

Andre Petroski

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #34 division

5.86

Elo 1512
8

Jackson Mcvey

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #56 division

5.50

Elo 1430
9

Andre Muniz

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #30 division

5.23

Elo 1533
10

Sedriques Dumas

3-5-0 · 8 UFC fights · #63 division

5.20

Elo 1408
11

Reinier De Ridder

4-2-0 · 6 UFC fights · #21 division

5.11

Elo 1556
12

Bo Nickal

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #15 division

5.01

Elo 1572
13

Antonio Trocoli

0-4-0 · 4 UFC fights · #70 division

4.99

Elo 1368
14

Chris Weidman

12-8-0 · 20 UFC fights · #18 division

4.83

Elo 1564
15

Rodolfo Vieira

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #42 division

4.60

Elo 1477
16

Eryk Anders

10-9-0 · 19 UFC fights · #39 division

4.52

Elo 1499
17

Junyong Park

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #28 division

4.48

Elo 1539
18

Brendan Allen

15-4-0 · 19 UFC fights · #4 division

4.45

Elo 1654
19

Dusko Todorovic

4-6-0 · 10 UFC fights · #65 division

4.29

Elo 1407
20

Azamat Bekoev

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #53 division

4.25

Elo 1434
21

Dustin Stoltzfus

3-7-0 · 10 UFC fights · #68 division

4.15

Elo 1392
22

Caio Borralho

8-1-0 · 9 UFC fights · #6 division

4.03

Elo 1634
23

Baisangur Susurkaev

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #17 division

4.02

Elo 1565
24

Abus Magomedov

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #35 division

3.93

Elo 1511
25

Roman Dolidze

9-5-0 · 14 UFC fights · #26 division

3.90

Elo 1546

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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.