Lightweight · 2026

Best Lightweight Knockdowns per 15 Minutes

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

Manuel Torres leads the lightweight KD / 15 min board at 3.93 knockdowns / 15 min , followed by Mauricio Ruffy (2.06) and Nikolas Motta (1.98) .

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

1

Manuel Torres

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #15 division

3.93

Elo 1575
2

Mauricio Ruffy

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #17 division

2.06

Elo 1573
3

Nikolas Motta

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #51 division

1.98

Elo 1479
4

Quillan Salkilld

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #7 division

1.85

Elo 1634
5

Kaue Fernandes

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #38 division

1.57

Elo 1514
6

Terrance McKinney

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #41 division

1.53

Elo 1508
7

Jalin Turner

8-6-0 · 14 UFC fights · #33 division

1.43

Elo 1526
8

Ilia Topuria

9-1-0 · 10 UFC fights · #1 division

1.15

Elo 1686
9

Matt Frevola

5-6-1 · 12 UFC fights · #65 division

0.90

Elo 1453
10

Benoit Saint Denis

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #9 division

0.87

Elo 1622
11

Jai Herbert

4-5-1 · 10 UFC fights · #59 division

0.84

Elo 1465
12

Ottman Azaitar

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #79 division

0.80

Elo 1413
13

Mateusz Rebecki

4-4-0 · 8 UFC fights · #44 division

0.75

Elo 1497
14

Mike Davis

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #27 division

0.71

Elo 1547
15

Drew Dober

15-11-0 · 26 UFC fights · #32 division

0.70

Elo 1530
16

Ignacio Bahamondes

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #40 division

0.67

Elo 1510
17

Justin Gaethje C

11-5-0 · 16 UFC fights · #4 division

0.67

Elo 1670
18

Jeremy Stephens

15-20-0 · 35 UFC fights · #69 division

0.66

Elo 1448
19

Charlie Campbell

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #53 division

0.66

Elo 1478
20

Edson Barboza

18-14-0 · 32 UFC fights · #34 division

0.63

Elo 1524
21

Nasrat Haqparast

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #28 division

0.60

Elo 1540
22

Dan Hooker

14-10-0 · 24 UFC fights · #24 division

0.56

Elo 1555
23

Viacheslav Borshchev

3-6-1 · 10 UFC fights · #77 division

0.54

Elo 1417
24

Nazim Sadykhov

4-1-1 · 6 UFC fights · #22 division

0.54

Elo 1556
25

Michael Johnson

16-16-0 · 32 UFC fights · #49 division

0.53

Elo 1486

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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.