Women's Bantamweight · 2026

Best Women's Bantamweight Lowest Strikes Absorbed

Defensive strikers — fewest significant strikes absorbed per minute.

Kayla Harrison leads the women's bantamweight SApM board at 1.10 sig strikes / min absorbed , followed by Bia Mesquita (1.27) and Ailin Perez (1.58) .

Top 25 active women's bantamweight fighters by career-window SApM. · See full women's bantamweight Elo rankings →

1

Kayla Harrison C

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #1 division

1.10

Elo 1594
2

Bia Mesquita

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #6 division

1.27

Elo 1565
3

Ailin Perez

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #4 division

1.58

Elo 1572
4

Nora Cornolle

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #19 division

2.04

Elo 1467
5

Melissa Croden

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #15 division

2.13

Elo 1492
6

Norma Dumont

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

2.33

Elo 1566
7

Luana Santos

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #2 division

2.45

Elo 1577
8

Julianna Pena

8-4-0 · 12 UFC fights · #10 division

2.56

Elo 1545
9

Macy Chiasson

8-6-0 · 14 UFC fights · #14 division

2.76

Elo 1503
10

Tainara Lisboa

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #27 division

2.88

Elo 1438
11

Jacqueline Cavalcanti

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #3 division

2.98

Elo 1573
12

Yana Santos

7-5-0 · 12 UFC fights · #13 division

3.12

Elo 1505
13

Miesha Tate

7-7-0 · 14 UFC fights · #18 division

3.19

Elo 1471
14

Joselyne Edwards

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #9 division

3.26

Elo 1545
15

Julia Avila

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #21 division

3.28

Elo 1453
16

Raquel Pennington

13-6-0 · 19 UFC fights · #7 division

3.32

Elo 1564
17

Daria Zhelezniakova

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

3.38

Elo 1444
18

Luana Carolina

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #16 division

3.51

Elo 1475
19

Montse Rendon

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #25 division

3.65

Elo 1441
20

Hailey Cowan

0-3-0 · 3 UFC fights · #32 division

3.71

Elo 1388
21

Ketlen Vieira

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #8 division

3.73

Elo 1547
22

Pannie Kianzad

5-6-0 · 11 UFC fights · #20 division

4.09

Elo 1460
23

Melissa Mullins

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #28 division

4.15

Elo 1422
24

Chelsea Chandler

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #26 division

4.27

Elo 1440
25

Karol Rosa

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #12 division

4.28

Elo 1510

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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.