Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Strikes Landed per Minute

Volume strikers — most significant strikes landed per minute of cage time.

Iwo Baraniewski leads the light heavyweight SLpM board at 11.29 sig strikes / min , followed by Zhang Mingyang (6.64) and Carlos Ulberg (6.61) .

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

1

Iwo Baraniewski

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #10 division

11.29

Elo 1554
2

Zhang Mingyang

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #26 division

6.64

Elo 1479
3

Carlos Ulberg C

10-1-0 · 11 UFC fights · #1 division

6.61

Elo 1670
4

Paulo Costa

8-4-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

6.15

Elo 1592
5

Navajo Stirling

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #4 division

6.15

Elo 1604
6

Jamahal Hill

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #15 division

5.86

Elo 1534
7

Rodolfo Bellato

2-1-1 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

5.76

Elo 1497
8

Jiri Prochazka

6-3-0 · 9 UFC fights · #7 division

5.61

Elo 1575
9

Marcin Prachnio

4-7-0 · 11 UFC fights · #37 division

5.52

Elo 1399
10

Ibo Aslan

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #34 division

5.52

Elo 1407
11

Dustin Jacoby

10-6-1 · 17 UFC fights · #12 division

5.44

Elo 1540
12

Caio Machado

0-3-0 · 3 UFC fights · #36 division

5.07

Elo 1402
13

Dominick Reyes

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #6 division

4.99

Elo 1583
14

Volkan Oezdemir

9-7-0 · 16 UFC fights · #14 division

4.99

Elo 1535
15

Diyar Nurgozhay

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #33 division

4.87

Elo 1410
16

Bogdan Guskov

4-1-1 · 6 UFC fights · #9 division

4.57

Elo 1569
17

Azamat Murzakanov

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #3 division

4.47

Elo 1611
18

Nikita Krylov

12-9-0 · 21 UFC fights · #17 division

4.36

Elo 1532
19

Ion Cutelaba

9-11-1 · 21 UFC fights · #28 division

4.13

Elo 1468
20

Aleksandar Rakic

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #20 division

4.13

Elo 1513
21

Khalil Rountree Jr.

10-7-0 · 17 UFC fights · #13 division

3.92

Elo 1538
22

Alonzo Menifield

11-6-1 · 18 UFC fights · #11 division

3.83

Elo 1547
23

Julius Walker

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #29 division

3.73

Elo 1434
24

Johnny Walker

8-7-0 · 15 UFC fights · #21 division

3.68

Elo 1511
25

Magomed Ankalaev

12-2-1 · 15 UFC fights · #2 division

3.64

Elo 1654

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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.