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Welterweight · 2026

Best Welterweight Lowest Strikes Absorbed

Defensive strikers — fewest significant strikes absorbed per minute.

Jeremiah Wells leads the welterweight SApM board at 1.28 sig strikes / min absorbed , followed by Islam Makhachev (1.45) and Michael Page (1.57) .

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

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  1. 1
    Jeremiah Wells
    5-2-0 7 fights #35
    1.28
  2. 2
    Islam Makhachev C
    17-1-0 18 fights #1
    1.45
  3. 3
    Michael Page
    4-1-0 5 fights #19
    1.57
  4. 4
    Michael Chiesa
    15-7-0 22 fights #13
    1.73
  5. 5
    Themba Gorimbo
    4-4-0 8 fights #48
    1.75
  6. 6
    Oban Elliott
    3-2-0 5 fights #56
    2.10
  7. 7
    Shavkat Rakhmonov
    7-0-0 7 fights #3
    2.17
  8. 8
    Trevin Giles
    7-7-0 14 fights #59
    2.39
  9. 9
    Neil Magny
    24-13-0 37 fights #22
    2.44
  10. 10
    Charles Radtke
    5-2-0 7 fights #44
    2.45
  11. 11
    Leon Edwards
    14-5-0 19 fights #11
    2.46
  12. 12
    Jake Matthews
    16-8-0 24 fights #20
    2.58
  13. 13
    Kamaru Usman
    16-3-0 19 fights #2
    2.67
  14. 14
    Myktybek Orolbai
    5-1-0 6 fights #23
    2.70
  15. 15
    Sean Brady
    9-2-0 11 fights #6
    2.77
  16. 16
    Mike Malott
    7-1-0 8 fights #14
    2.83
  17. 17
    Ian Machado Garry
    10-1-0 11 fights #5
    2.86
  18. 18
    Muslim Salikhov
    9-5-0 14 fights #28
    2.96
  19. 19
    Stephen Thompson
    12-9-1 22 fights #37
    3.00
  20. 20
    Joel Alvarez
    8-3-0 11 fights #17
    3.03
  21. 21
    Gunnar Nelson
    10-6-0 16 fights #30
    3.06
  22. 22
    Colby Covington
    12-5-0 17 fights #15
    3.09
  23. 23
    Joaquin Buckley
    11-6-0 17 fights #21
    3.10
  24. 24
    Sam Patterson
    4-2-0 6 fights #38
    3.11
  25. 25
    Michael Morales
    7-0-0 7 fights #4
    3.21
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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.