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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 Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev (8.45) and Zhang Mingyang (1.50) .

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

Knockdowns per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Iwo Baraniewski
    3-0-0 3 fights #10
    17.82
  2. 2
    Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev
    3-0-0 3 fights #12
    8.45
  3. 3
    Zhang Mingyang
    3-2-0 5 fights #27
    1.50
  4. 4
    Azamat Murzakanov
    6-1-0 7 fights #5
    1.42
  5. 5
    Carlos Ulberg C
    10-1-0 11 fights #1
    1.25
  6. 6
    Khalil Rountree Jr.
    10-7-0 18 fights #14
    1.20
  7. 7
    Diyar Nurgozhay
    2-2-0 4 fights #30
    1.03
  8. 8
    Ibo Aslan
    2-3-0 5 fights #33
    0.95
  9. 9
    Bogdan Guskov
    4-2-1 7 fights #11
    0.91
  10. 10
    Dominick Reyes
    10-5-0 15 fights #7
    0.89
  11. 11
    Jiri Prochazka
    6-3-0 9 fights #8
    0.81
  12. 12
    Jimmy Crute
    6-4-2 12 fights #16
    0.77
  13. 13
    Alonzo Menifield
    11-6-1 18 fights #13
    0.70
  14. 14
    Volkan Oezdemir
    9-7-0 16 fights #15
    0.70
  15. 15
    Johnny Walker
    8-7-0 16 fights #22
    0.69
  16. 16
    Dustin Jacoby
    10-7-1 18 fights #20
    0.60
  17. 17
    Paulo Costa
    8-4-0 12 fights #6
    0.59
  18. 18
    Nikita Krylov
    12-10-0 22 fights #18
    0.57
  19. 19
    Robert Whittaker
    18-7-0 25 fights #3
    0.53
  20. 20
    Junior Tafa
    3-6-0 9 fights #34
    0.53
  21. 21
    Jamahal Hill
    6-4-0 11 fights #17
    0.52
  22. 22
    Magomed Ankalaev
    13-2-1 17 fights #2
    0.50
  23. 23
    Da Woon Jung
    4-4-1 9 fights #25
    0.48
  24. 24
    Navajo Stirling
    6-0-0 6 fights #4
    0.46
  25. 25
    Austen Lane
    1-5-0 7 fights #40
    0.44
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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 Aug 15, 2026.