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Middleweight · 2026

Best Middleweight Knockdowns per 15 Minutes

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

Ateba Gautier leads the middleweight KD / 15 min board at 3.27 knockdowns / 15 min , followed by Gilbert Urbina (2.04) and Abdul Razak Alhassan (1.53) .

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

Knockdowns per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Ateba Gautier
    5-0-0 5 fights #11
    3.27
  2. 2
    Gilbert Urbina
    2-3-0 5 fights #53
    2.04
  3. 3
    Abdul Razak Alhassan
    6-7-0 14 fights #42
    1.53
  4. 4
    Azamat Bekoev
    2-2-0 4 fights #52
    1.49
  5. 5
    Marco Tulio
    2-2-0 4 fights #47
    1.30
  6. 6
    Jackson Mcvey
    1-2-0 3 fights #56
    1.20
  7. 7
    Michal Oleksiejczuk
    10-8-0 19 fights #36
    1.11
  8. 8
    Ikram Aliskerov
    5-1-0 6 fights #13
    1.10
  9. 9
    Joe Pyfer
    7-1-0 8 fights #8
    1.05
  10. 10
    Gregory Rodrigues
    10-3-0 13 fights #9
    1.03
  11. 11
    Nursulton Ruziboev
    5-1-0 6 fights #18
    1.02
  12. 12
    Roman Kopylov
    7-5-0 12 fights #32
    0.92
  13. 13
    Bo Nickal
    6-1-0 7 fights #16
    0.88
  14. 14
    Edmen Shahbazyan
    9-6-0 15 fights #27
    0.84
  15. 15
    Ihor Potieria
    2-6-0 8 fights #66
    0.78
  16. 16
    Vicente Luque
    17-9-0 26 fights #15
    0.66
  17. 17
    Donte Johnson
    3-0-0 3 fights #22
    0.65
  18. 18
    Brunno Ferreira
    6-4-0 10 fights #35
    0.61
  19. 19
    Israel Adesanya
    13-6-0 19 fights #10
    0.60
  20. 20
    Cam Rowston
    3-0-0 3 fights #19
    0.56
  21. 21
    Cody Brundage
    6-8-0 16 fights #57
    0.49
  22. 22
    Baisangur Susurkaev
    3-0-0 3 fights #20
    0.46
  23. 23
    Eryk Anders
    10-9-0 20 fights #39
    0.44
  24. 24
    Kyle Daukaus
    4-5-0 10 fights #46
    0.44
  25. 25
    Kelvin Gastelum
    14-11-0 26 fights #24
    0.43
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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.