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Middleweight · 2026

Best Middleweight Lowest Strikes Absorbed

Defensive strikers — fewest significant strikes absorbed per minute.

Ismail Naurdiev leads the middleweight SApM board at 1.75 sig strikes / min absorbed , followed by Cam Rowston (1.98) and Bo Nickal (2.00) .

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

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  1. 1
    Ismail Naurdiev
    4-3-0 7 fights #40
    1.75
  2. 2
    Cam Rowston
    3-0-0 3 fights #16
    1.98
  3. 3
    Bo Nickal
    6-1-0 7 fights #15
    2.00
  4. 4
    Cesar Almeida
    3-2-0 5 fights #41
    2.07
  5. 5
    Josh Fremd
    2-4-0 6 fights #57
    2.23
  6. 6
    Reinier De Ridder
    4-2-0 6 fights #21
    2.36
  7. 7
    Jacob Malkoun
    6-2-0 8 fights #27
    2.41
  8. 8
    Ryan Loder
    1-2-0 3 fights #61
    2.46
  9. 9
    Dylan Budka
    0-3-0 3 fights #66
    2.48
  10. 10
    Christian Leroy Duncan
    7-2-0 9 fights #19
    2.59
  11. 11
    Cody Brundage
    5-8-0 13 fights #62
    2.59
  12. 12
    Andre Muniz
    6-4-0 10 fights #30
    2.61
  13. 13
    Caio Borralho
    8-1-0 9 fights #6
    2.63
  14. 14
    Sedriques Dumas
    3-5-0 8 fights #63
    2.66
  15. 15
    Robert Valentin
    1-3-0 4 fights #67
    2.72
  16. 16
    Nursulton Ruziboev
    4-1-0 5 fights #23
    2.89
  17. 17
    Khamzat Chimaev
    9-1-0 10 fights #2
    2.98
  18. 18
    Andre Petroski
    8-5-0 13 fights #34
    2.99
  19. 19
    Ateba Gautier
    5-0-0 5 fights #12
    3.05
  20. 20
    Eric Mcconico
    2-2-0 4 fights #47
    3.05
  21. 21
    Marco Tulio
    2-2-0 4 fights #46
    3.09
  22. 22
    Anthony Hernandez
    9-3-0 12 fights #13
    3.10
  23. 23
    Nassourdine Imavov
    9-2-0 11 fights #5
    3.17
  24. 24
    Andrey Pulyaev
    1-2-0 3 fights #50
    3.20
  25. 25
    Israel Adesanya
    13-6-0 19 fights #11
    3.22
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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.