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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 Ikram Aliskerov (1.73) and Abdul Razak Alhassan (1.55) .

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 #12
    3.27
  2. 2
    Ikram Aliskerov
    4-1-0 5 fights #14
    1.73
  3. 3
    Abdul Razak Alhassan
    6-7-0 13 fights #43
    1.55
  4. 4
    Azamat Bekoev
    2-2-0 4 fights #53
    1.49
  5. 5
    Michal Oleksiejczuk
    10-7-0 17 fights #32
    1.31
  6. 6
    Marco Tulio
    2-2-0 4 fights #46
    1.30
  7. 7
    Jackson Mcvey
    1-2-0 3 fights #56
    1.20
  8. 8
    Nursulton Ruziboev
    4-1-0 5 fights #23
    1.12
  9. 9
    Joe Pyfer
    7-1-0 8 fights #8
    1.05
  10. 10
    Gregory Rodrigues
    10-3-0 13 fights #10
    1.03
  11. 11
    Roman Kopylov
    7-5-0 12 fights #31
    0.92
  12. 12
    Bo Nickal
    6-1-0 7 fights #15
    0.88
  13. 13
    Edmen Shahbazyan
    9-6-0 15 fights #29
    0.84
  14. 14
    Ihor Potieria
    2-6-0 8 fights #64
    0.78
  15. 15
    Brunno Ferreira
    6-3-0 9 fights #33
    0.77
  16. 16
    Vicente Luque
    17-8-0 25 fights #9
    0.70
  17. 17
    Denis Tiuliulin
    1-5-0 6 fights #69
    0.64
  18. 18
    Israel Adesanya
    13-6-0 19 fights #11
    0.60
  19. 19
    Mansur Abdul-Malik
    3-1-0 4 fights #37
    0.58
  20. 20
    Cam Rowston
    3-0-0 3 fights #16
    0.56
  21. 21
    Cody Brundage
    5-8-0 13 fights #62
    0.56
  22. 22
    Robert Whittaker
    17-7-0 24 fights #7
    0.55
  23. 23
    Christian Leroy Duncan
    7-2-0 9 fights #19
    0.50
  24. 24
    Kyle Daukaus
    4-5-0 9 fights #45
    0.46
  25. 25
    Baisangur Susurkaev
    3-0-0 3 fights #17
    0.46
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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.