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Welterweight · 2026

Best Welterweight Lowest Strikes Absorbed

Defensive strikers — fewest significant strikes absorbed per minute.

Islam Makhachev leads the welterweight SApM board at 1.42 sig strikes / min absorbed , followed by Jeremiah Wells (1.43) and Seokhyeon Ko (1.47) .

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

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  1. 1
    Islam Makhachev C
    18-1-0 19 fights #1
    1.42
  2. 2
    Jeremiah Wells
    6-2-0 8 fights #24
    1.43
  3. 3
    Seokhyeon Ko
    2-1-0 3 fights #51
    1.47
  4. 4
    Michael Chiesa
    15-7-0 22 fights #15
    1.73
  5. 5
    Themba Gorimbo
    4-4-0 8 fights #48
    1.75
  6. 6
    Daniil Donchenko
    4-0-0 4 fights #16
    2.14
  7. 7
    Shavkat Rakhmonov
    7-0-0 7 fights #4
    2.17
  8. 8
    Oban Elliott
    3-3-0 6 fights #63
    2.26
  9. 9
    Trevin Giles
    7-7-0 14 fights #58
    2.39
  10. 10
    Neil Magny
    25-13-0 38 fights #17
    2.41
  11. 11
    Leon Edwards
    14-5-0 20 fights #12
    2.44
  12. 12
    Charles Radtke
    5-2-0 7 fights #44
    2.45
  13. 13
    Myktybek Orolbai
    5-2-0 7 fights #26
    2.49
  14. 14
    Jake Matthews
    16-8-0 24 fights #21
    2.58
  15. 15
    Ian Machado Garry
    10-2-0 12 fights #5
    2.59
  16. 16
    Mike Malott
    8-1-0 9 fights #9
    2.74
  17. 17
    Sean Brady
    9-2-0 11 fights #6
    2.77
  18. 18
    Sam Patterson
    5-2-0 7 fights #29
    2.80
  19. 19
    Stephen Thompson
    12-9-1 22 fights #37
    3.00
  20. 20
    Gunnar Nelson
    10-6-0 16 fights #32
    3.06
  21. 21
    Colby Covington
    12-5-0 17 fights #18
    3.09
  22. 22
    Joaquin Buckley
    11-7-0 18 fights #30
    3.16
  23. 23
    Muslim Salikhov
    9-6-0 15 fights #36
    3.20
  24. 24
    Michael Morales
    7-0-0 7 fights #3
    3.21
  25. 25
    Ramiz Brahimaj
    5-5-0 10 fights #59
    3.23
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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 Oct 17, 2026.