Middleweight · 2026

Best Middleweight Strikes Landed per Minute

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

Ikram Aliskerov leads the middleweight SLpM board at 7.15 sig strikes / min , followed by Marco Tulio (7.07) and Djorden Santos (6.97) .

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

1

Ikram Aliskerov

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #14 division

7.15

Elo 1581
2

Marco Tulio

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #46 division

7.07

Elo 1454
3

Djorden Santos

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #58 division

6.97

Elo 1422
4

Jackson Mcvey

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #56 division

6.51

Elo 1430
5

Ozzy Diaz

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #54 division

6.36

Elo 1431
6

Sean Strickland C

18-7-0 · 25 UFC fights · #3 division

5.98

Elo 1657
7

Baisangur Susurkaev

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #17 division

5.97

Elo 1565
8

Michal Oleksiejczuk

10-7-0 · 17 UFC fights · #32 division

5.96

Elo 1525
9

Shara Magomedov

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #24 division

5.93

Elo 1551
10

Armen Petrosyan

3-4-0 · 7 UFC fights · #49 division

5.91

Elo 1441
11

Danny Barlow

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #52 division

5.62

Elo 1434
12

Marc-Andre Barriault

6-10-0 · 16 UFC fights · #59 division

5.54

Elo 1420
13

Gregory Rodrigues

10-3-0 · 13 UFC fights · #10 division

5.52

Elo 1603
14

Cam Rowston

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #16 division

5.52

Elo 1567
15

Dricus Du Plessis

9-1-0 · 10 UFC fights · #1 division

5.18

Elo 1690
16

Ryan Loder

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #61 division

5.10

Elo 1418
17

Julian Marquez

3-5-0 · 8 UFC fights · #60 division

5.09

Elo 1419
18

Vicente Luque

17-8-0 · 25 UFC fights · #9 division

4.80

Elo 1605
19

Marvin Vettori

9-8-1 · 18 UFC fights · #36 division

4.74

Elo 1501
20

Junyong Park

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #28 division

4.64

Elo 1539
21

Azamat Bekoev

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #53 division

4.57

Elo 1434
22

Roman Kopylov

7-5-0 · 12 UFC fights · #31 division

4.54

Elo 1525
23

Anthony Hernandez

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #13 division

4.52

Elo 1602
24

Michel Pereira

10-4-0 · 14 UFC fights · #20 division

4.50

Elo 1561
25

Zach Reese

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #44 division

4.47

Elo 1473

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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.