Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Knockdowns per 15 Minutes

KO threat — most knockdowns landed per 15 minutes of cage time.

Iwo Baraniewski leads the light heavyweight KD / 15 min board at 17.82 knockdowns / 15 min , followed by Zhang Mingyang (1.50) and Azamat Murzakanov (1.42) .

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

1

Iwo Baraniewski

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #10 division

17.82

Elo 1554
2

Zhang Mingyang

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #26 division

1.50

Elo 1479
3

Azamat Murzakanov

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #3 division

1.42

Elo 1611
4

Bogdan Guskov

4-1-1 · 6 UFC fights · #9 division

1.38

Elo 1569
5

Khalil Rountree Jr.

10-7-0 · 17 UFC fights · #13 division

1.31

Elo 1538
6

Carlos Ulberg C

10-1-0 · 11 UFC fights · #1 division

1.25

Elo 1670
7

Ibo Aslan

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #34 division

0.95

Elo 1407
8

Dominick Reyes

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #6 division

0.89

Elo 1583
9

Jiri Prochazka

6-3-0 · 9 UFC fights · #7 division

0.81

Elo 1575
10

Jimmy Crute

6-4-2 · 12 UFC fights · #16 division

0.77

Elo 1533
11

Johnny Walker

8-7-0 · 15 UFC fights · #21 division

0.71

Elo 1511
12

Alonzo Menifield

11-6-1 · 18 UFC fights · #11 division

0.70

Elo 1547
13

Volkan Oezdemir

9-7-0 · 16 UFC fights · #14 division

0.70

Elo 1535
14

Dustin Jacoby

10-6-1 · 17 UFC fights · #12 division

0.63

Elo 1540
15

Nikita Krylov

12-9-0 · 21 UFC fights · #17 division

0.62

Elo 1532
16

Paulo Costa

8-4-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

0.59

Elo 1592
17

Magomed Ankalaev

12-2-1 · 15 UFC fights · #2 division

0.57

Elo 1654
18

Junior Tafa

3-6-0 · 9 UFC fights · #35 division

0.53

Elo 1406
19

Aleksandar Rakic

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #20 division

0.51

Elo 1513
20

Navajo Stirling

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #4 division

0.48

Elo 1604
21

Da Woon Jung

4-4-1 · 9 UFC fights · #24 division

0.48

Elo 1496
22

Austen Lane

1-5-0 · 6 UFC fights · #39 division

0.44

Elo 1370
23

Billy Elekana

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #18 division

0.42

Elo 1520
24

Julius Walker

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #29 division

0.41

Elo 1434
25

Anthony Smith

13-12-0 · 25 UFC fights · #19 division

0.40

Elo 1514

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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.