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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 →

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  1. 1
    Yadier Del Valle
    2-1-0 3 fights #41
    0.93
  2. 2
    Pat Sabatini
    9-2-0 11 fights #13
    1.16
  3. 3
    Jordan Leavitt
    6-4-0 10 fights #39
    1.63
  4. 4
    Isaac Dulgarian
    2-2-0 4 fights #53
    1.65
  5. 5
    Erik Silva
    0-3-0 3 fights #74
    1.66
  6. 6
    Youssef Zalal
    8-4-1 13 fights #26
    1.79
  7. 7
    Aljamain Sterling
    17-5-0 22 fights #3
    2.01
  8. 8
    Steve Garcia
    8-3-0 11 fights #16
    2.01
  9. 9
    Bogdan Grad
    1-2-0 3 fights #61
    2.21
  10. 10
    Mairon Santos
    4-0-0 4 fights #11
    2.24
  11. 11
    Jack Shore
    6-3-0 9 fights #27
    2.31
  12. 12
    Joanderson Brito
    7-3-0 10 fights #17
    2.32
  13. 13
    William Gomis
    5-2-0 7 fights #24
    2.60
  14. 14
    Lerone Murphy
    9-1-1 11 fights #4
    2.65
  15. 15
    Chepe Mariscal
    5-1-0 6 fights #15
    2.66
  16. 16
    Movsar Evloev
    10-0-0 10 fights #2
    2.80
  17. 17
    Jonathan Pearce
    5-4-0 9 fights #36
    2.85
  18. 18
    Muhammad Naimov
    5-2-0 7 fights #31
    2.85
  19. 19
    Lucas Alexander
    1-3-0 4 fights #73
    2.87
  20. 20
    Vinicius Oliveira
    5-1-0 6 fights #19
    2.88
  21. 21
    Christian Rodriguez
    6-4-0 10 fights #33
    2.92
  22. 22
    Melsik Baghdasaryan
    3-3-0 6 fights #56
    2.96
  23. 23
    Josh Culibao
    3-4-1 8 fights #47
    3.04
  24. 24
    Daniel Pineda
    5-8-0 13 fights #59
    3.13
  25. 25
    Arnold Allen
    12-3-0 15 fights #5
    3.15
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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.