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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 →

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  1. 1
    Jailton Almeida
    8-3-0 11 fights #9
    1.32
  2. 2
    Mario Pinto
    3-0-0 3 fights #12
    1.81
  3. 3
    Louie Sutherland
    1-2-0 3 fights #38
    2.03
  4. 4
    Alexandr Romanov
    7-3-0 10 fights #13
    2.13
  5. 5
    Marcus Buchecha
    0-2-1 3 fights #37
    2.15
  6. 6
    Ciryl Gane IC
    11-2-0 13 fights #1
    2.22
  7. 7
    Robelis Despaigne
    1-2-0 3 fights #39
    2.54
  8. 8
    Thomas Petersen
    3-3-0 6 fights #34
    2.62
  9. 9
    Jairzinho Rozenstruik
    9-6-0 15 fights #16
    2.63
  10. 10
    Karl Williams
    3-1-0 4 fights #23
    2.67
  11. 11
    Vitor Petrino
    7-2-0 9 fights #15
    2.76
  12. 12
    Derrick Lewis
    20-12-0 32 fights #14
    2.79
  13. 13
    Curtis Blaydes
    14-6-0 20 fights #7
    2.84
  14. 14
    Valter Walker
    4-1-0 5 fights #18
    2.85
  15. 15
    Tom Aspinall C
    8-1-0 9 fights #4
    2.89
  16. 16
    Tanner Boser
    5-6-0 11 fights #32
    3.00
  17. 17
    Alexander Volkov
    14-5-0 19 fights #2
    3.06
  18. 18
    Marcin Tybura
    14-10-0 24 fights #21
    3.26
  19. 19
    Andrei Arlovski
    23-18-0 41 fights #25
    3.35
  20. 20
    Jhonata Diniz
    3-2-0 5 fights #27
    3.41
  21. 21
    Tallison Teixeira
    2-2-0 4 fights #30
    3.45
  22. 22
    Don'Tale Mayes
    4-7-0 11 fights #41
    3.54
  23. 23
    Sergei Pavlovich
    9-3-0 12 fights #5
    3.58
  24. 24
    Waldo Cortes Acosta
    10-3-0 13 fights #8
    3.61
  25. 25
    Alex Pereira
    10-3-0 13 fights #3
    3.72
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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.