Welterweight · 2026

Best Welterweight Control Time per 15 Minutes

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

Rinat Fakhretdinov leads the welterweight Ctrl / 15 min board at 8.11 seconds / 15 min , followed by Myktybek Orolbai (8.04) and Jeremiah Wells (7.96) .

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

1

Rinat Fakhretdinov

6-0-1 · 7 UFC fights · #9 division

8.11

Elo 1625
2

Myktybek Orolbai

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #23 division

8.04

Elo 1578
3

Jeremiah Wells

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #35 division

7.96

Elo 1539
4

Themba Gorimbo

4-4-0 · 8 UFC fights · #48 division

7.92

Elo 1488
5

Charles Radtke

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #44 division

7.71

Elo 1515
6

Islam Makhachev C

17-1-0 · 18 UFC fights · #1 division

7.68

Elo 1802
7

Shavkat Rakhmonov

7-0-0 · 7 UFC fights · #3 division

7.44

Elo 1679
8

Sean Brady

9-2-0 · 11 UFC fights · #6 division

7.11

Elo 1645
9

Jacobe Smith

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #25 division

7.06

Elo 1567
10

Colby Covington

12-5-0 · 17 UFC fights · #15 division

6.51

Elo 1597
11

Kamaru Usman

16-3-0 · 19 UFC fights · #2 division

6.50

Elo 1691
12

Michael Chiesa

15-7-0 · 22 UFC fights · #13 division

6.00

Elo 1616
13

Gunnar Nelson

10-6-0 · 16 UFC fights · #30 division

5.30

Elo 1552
14

Preston Parsons

2-4-0 · 6 UFC fights · #67 division

5.01

Elo 1424
15

Punahele Soriano

7-4-0 · 11 UFC fights · #45 division

4.59

Elo 1510
16

Gilbert Urbina

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #72 division

4.20

Elo 1399
17

Ange Loosa

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #69 division

4.15

Elo 1420
18

Bryan Battle

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #16 division

4.03

Elo 1591
19

Jake Matthews

16-8-0 · 24 UFC fights · #20 division

3.97

Elo 1580
20

Oban Elliott

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #56 division

3.95

Elo 1461
21

Rafael Dos Anjos

21-15-0 · 36 UFC fights · #26 division

3.92

Elo 1561
22

Court McGee

11-13-0 · 24 UFC fights · #64 division

3.55

Elo 1446
23

Billy Ray Goff

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #68 division

3.51

Elo 1421
24

Nicolas Dalby

8-5-1 · 14 UFC fights · #40 division

3.45

Elo 1524
25

Gilbert Burns

15-10-0 · 25 UFC fights · #27 division

3.42

Elo 1560

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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.