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Welterweight · 2026

Best Welterweight Control Time per 15 Minutes

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

Seokhyeon Ko leads the welterweight Ctrl / 15 min board at 8.40 seconds / 15 min , followed by Rinat Fakhretdinov (8.11) and Myktybek Orolbai (8.08) .

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

Control Time per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Seokhyeon Ko
    2-1-0 3 fights #53
    8.40
  2. 2
    Rinat Fakhretdinov
    6-0-1 7 fights #9
    8.11
  3. 3
    Myktybek Orolbai
    5-2-0 7 fights #30
    8.08
  4. 4
    Themba Gorimbo
    4-4-0 8 fights #50
    7.92
  5. 5
    Charles Radtke
    5-2-0 7 fights #46
    7.71
  6. 6
    Islam Makhachev C
    18-1-0 19 fights #1
    7.66
  7. 7
    Shavkat Rakhmonov
    7-0-0 7 fights #3
    7.44
  8. 8
    Sean Brady
    9-2-0 11 fights #6
    7.11
  9. 9
    Jacobe Smith
    3-0-0 3 fights #24
    7.06
  10. 10
    Jeremiah Wells
    6-2-0 8 fights #26
    6.90
  11. 11
    Colby Covington
    12-5-0 17 fights #16
    6.51
  12. 12
    Michael Chiesa
    15-7-0 22 fights #14
    6.00
  13. 13
    Gunnar Nelson
    10-6-0 16 fights #35
    5.30
  14. 14
    Preston Parsons
    2-4-0 6 fights #70
    5.01
  15. 15
    Punahele Soriano
    7-4-0 11 fights #47
    4.59
  16. 16
    Bryan Battle
    7-1-0 9 fights #18
    4.02
  17. 17
    Jake Matthews
    16-8-0 24 fights #20
    3.97
  18. 18
    Rafael Dos Anjos
    21-15-0 36 fights #28
    3.92
  19. 19
    Oban Elliott
    3-3-0 6 fights #68
    3.84
  20. 20
    Ange Loosa
    2-3-0 6 fights #71
    3.84
  21. 21
    Ramiz Brahimaj
    5-5-0 10 fights #61
    3.73
  22. 22
    Billy Ray Goff
    1-3-0 4 fights #74
    3.68
  23. 23
    Court McGee
    11-13-0 24 fights #66
    3.55
  24. 24
    Nicolas Dalby
    8-5-1 15 fights #41
    3.44
  25. 25
    Gilbert Burns
    15-10-0 25 fights #27
    3.42
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