Heavyweight · 2026

Best Heavyweight Lowest Strikes Absorbed

Defensive strikers — fewest significant strikes absorbed per minute.

Jailton Almeida leads the heavyweight SApM board at 1.32 sig strikes / min absorbed , followed by Mario Pinto (1.81) and Louie Sutherland (2.03) .

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

1

Jailton Almeida

8-3-0 · 11 UFC fights · #9 division

1.32

Elo 1594
2

Mario Pinto

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #12 division

1.81

Elo 1564
3

Louie Sutherland

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #38 division

2.03

Elo 1432
4

Alexandr Romanov

7-3-0 · 10 UFC fights · #13 division

2.13

Elo 1562
5

Marcus Buchecha

0-2-1 · 3 UFC fights · #37 division

2.15

Elo 1432
6

Ciryl Gane IC

11-2-0 · 13 UFC fights · #1 division

2.22

Elo 1691
7

Robelis Despaigne

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #39 division

2.54

Elo 1430
8

Thomas Petersen

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #34 division

2.62

Elo 1444
9

Jairzinho Rozenstruik

9-6-0 · 15 UFC fights · #16 division

2.63

Elo 1553
10

Karl Williams

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

2.67

Elo 1495
11

Vitor Petrino

7-2-0 · 9 UFC fights · #15 division

2.76

Elo 1554
12

Derrick Lewis

20-12-0 · 32 UFC fights · #14 division

2.79

Elo 1557
13

Curtis Blaydes

14-6-0 · 20 UFC fights · #7 division

2.84

Elo 1610
14

Valter Walker

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #18 division

2.85

Elo 1545
15

Tom Aspinall C

8-1-0 · 9 UFC fights · #4 division

2.89

Elo 1654
16

Tanner Boser

5-6-0 · 11 UFC fights · #32 division

3.00

Elo 1446
17

Alexander Volkov

14-5-0 · 19 UFC fights · #2 division

3.06

Elo 1656
18

Marcin Tybura

14-10-0 · 24 UFC fights · #21 division

3.26

Elo 1526
19

Andrei Arlovski

23-18-0 · 41 UFC fights · #25 division

3.35

Elo 1489
20

Jhonata Diniz

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #27 division

3.41

Elo 1477
21

Tallison Teixeira

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #30 division

3.45

Elo 1471
22

Don'Tale Mayes

4-7-0 · 11 UFC fights · #41 division

3.54

Elo 1407
23

Sergei Pavlovich

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

3.58

Elo 1619
24

Waldo Cortes Acosta

10-3-0 · 13 UFC fights · #8 division

3.61

Elo 1601
25

Alex Pereira

10-3-0 · 13 UFC fights · #3 division

3.72

Elo 1655

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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.