Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Lowest Strikes Absorbed

Defensive strikers — fewest significant strikes absorbed per minute.

Oumar Sy leads the light heavyweight SApM board at 1.87 sig strikes / min absorbed , followed by Navajo Stirling (2.53) and Magomed Ankalaev (2.56) .

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

1

Oumar Sy

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #27 division

1.87

Elo 1474
2

Navajo Stirling

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #4 division

2.53

Elo 1604
3

Magomed Ankalaev

12-2-1 · 15 UFC fights · #2 division

2.56

Elo 1654
4

Nikita Krylov

12-9-0 · 21 UFC fights · #17 division

2.59

Elo 1532
5

Austen Lane

1-5-0 · 6 UFC fights · #39 division

2.59

Elo 1370
6

Junior Tafa

3-6-0 · 9 UFC fights · #35 division

2.70

Elo 1406
7

Diyar Nurgozhay

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #33 division

2.85

Elo 1410
8

Aleksandar Rakic

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #20 division

2.86

Elo 1513
9

Johnny Walker

8-7-0 · 15 UFC fights · #21 division

2.88

Elo 1511
10

Tuco Tokkos

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #38 division

3.11

Elo 1394
11

Jan Blachowicz

12-8-2 · 22 UFC fights · #8 division

3.14

Elo 1573
12

Marcin Prachnio

4-7-0 · 11 UFC fights · #37 division

3.15

Elo 1399
13

Azamat Murzakanov

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #3 division

3.29

Elo 1611
14

Jimmy Crute

6-4-2 · 12 UFC fights · #16 division

3.33

Elo 1533
15

Dominick Reyes

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #6 division

3.40

Elo 1583
16

Ion Cutelaba

9-11-1 · 21 UFC fights · #28 division

3.42

Elo 1468
17

Caio Machado

0-3-0 · 3 UFC fights · #36 division

3.44

Elo 1402
18

Billy Elekana

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #18 division

3.59

Elo 1520
19

Ovince Saint Preux

15-13-0 · 28 UFC fights · #25 division

3.80

Elo 1492
20

Brendson Ribeiro

2-5-0 · 7 UFC fights · #32 division

3.81

Elo 1411
21

Modestas Bukauskas

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #22 division

3.86

Elo 1510
22

Alonzo Menifield

11-6-1 · 18 UFC fights · #11 division

3.90

Elo 1547
23

Ibo Aslan

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #34 division

4.00

Elo 1407
24

Julius Walker

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #29 division

4.03

Elo 1434
25

Carlos Ulberg C

10-1-0 · 11 UFC fights · #1 division

4.04

Elo 1670

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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.