Featherweight · 2026

Best Featherweight Lowest Strikes Absorbed

Defensive strikers — fewest significant strikes absorbed per minute.

Yadier Del Valle leads the featherweight SApM board at 0.93 sig strikes / min absorbed , followed by Pat Sabatini (1.16) and Jordan Leavitt (1.63) .

Top 25 active featherweight fighters by career-window SApM. · See full featherweight Elo rankings →

1

Yadier Del Valle

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #41 division

0.93

Elo 1483
2

Pat Sabatini

9-2-0 · 11 UFC fights · #13 division

1.16

Elo 1586
3

Jordan Leavitt

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #39 division

1.63

Elo 1496
4

Isaac Dulgarian

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #53 division

1.65

Elo 1453
5

Erik Silva

0-3-0 · 3 UFC fights · #74 division

1.66

Elo 1385
6

Youssef Zalal

8-4-1 · 13 UFC fights · #26 division

1.79

Elo 1537
7

Aljamain Sterling

17-5-0 · 22 UFC fights · #3 division

2.01

Elo 1670
8

Steve Garcia

8-3-0 · 11 UFC fights · #16 division

2.01

Elo 1579
9

Bogdan Grad

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #61 division

2.21

Elo 1423
10

Mairon Santos

4-0-0 · 4 UFC fights · #11 division

2.24

Elo 1603
11

Jack Shore

6-3-0 · 9 UFC fights · #27 division

2.31

Elo 1534
12

Joanderson Brito

7-3-0 · 10 UFC fights · #17 division

2.32

Elo 1576
13

William Gomis

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #24 division

2.60

Elo 1540
14

Lerone Murphy

9-1-1 · 11 UFC fights · #4 division

2.65

Elo 1649
15

Chepe Mariscal

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #15 division

2.66

Elo 1585
16

Movsar Evloev

10-0-0 · 10 UFC fights · #2 division

2.80

Elo 1693
17

Jonathan Pearce

5-4-0 · 9 UFC fights · #36 division

2.85

Elo 1511
18

Muhammad Naimov

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #31 division

2.85

Elo 1524
19

Lucas Alexander

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #73 division

2.87

Elo 1389
20

Vinicius Oliveira

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #19 division

2.88

Elo 1571
21

Christian Rodriguez

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #33 division

2.92

Elo 1519
22

Melsik Baghdasaryan

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #56 division

2.96

Elo 1452
23

Josh Culibao

3-4-1 · 8 UFC fights · #47 division

3.04

Elo 1471
24

Daniel Pineda

5-8-0 · 13 UFC fights · #59 division

3.13

Elo 1445
25

Arnold Allen

12-3-0 · 15 UFC fights · #5 division

3.15

Elo 1635

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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.