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Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Striking Accuracy

Snipers — highest percentage of significant strikes that find their target.

Diyar Nurgozhay leads the light heavyweight Str Acc board at 63% % landed , followed by Paulo Costa (59%) and Zhang Mingyang (59%) .

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

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  1. 1
    Diyar Nurgozhay
    2-2-0 4 fights #29
    63%
  2. 2
    Paulo Costa
    8-4-0 12 fights #6
    59%
  3. 3
    Zhang Mingyang
    3-2-0 5 fights #25
    59%
  4. 4
    Rodolfo Bellato
    2-2-1 6 fights #28
    58%
  5. 5
    Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev
    3-0-0 3 fights #13
    58%
  6. 6
    Julius Walker
    2-3-0 5 fights #30
    57%
  7. 7
    Bogdan Guskov
    4-2-1 7 fights #12
    57%
  8. 8
    Azamat Murzakanov
    6-1-0 7 fights #5
    56%
  9. 9
    Billy Elekana
    3-1-0 4 fights #21
    56%
  10. 10
    Carlos Ulberg C
    10-1-0 11 fights #1
    56%
  11. 11
    Iwo Baraniewski
    3-1-0 4 fights #23
    56%
  12. 12
    Jiri Prochazka
    6-3-0 9 fights #9
    56%
  13. 13
    Reinier De Ridder
    5-2-0 7 fights #8
    55%
  14. 14
    Marcin Prachnio
    4-7-0 11 fights #38
    55%
  15. 15
    Nikita Krylov
    12-10-0 22 fights #20
    54%
  16. 16
    Navajo Stirling
    6-0-0 6 fights #4
    54%
  17. 17
    Dominick Reyes
    10-5-0 15 fights #7
    54%
  18. 18
    Magomed Ankalaev
    13-2-1 17 fights #2
    52%
  19. 19
    Junior Tafa
    3-6-0 9 fights #37
    52%
  20. 20
    Austen Lane
    1-5-0 7 fights #42
    52%
  21. 21
    Alonzo Menifield
    12-6-1 19 fights #10
    51%
  22. 22
    Oumar Sy
    3-3-0 6 fights #27
    51%
  23. 23
    Jimmy Crute
    6-4-2 12 fights #17
    51%
  24. 24
    Felipe Franco
    1-2-0 3 fights #32
    50%
  25. 25
    Jamahal Hill
    6-4-0 11 fights #18
    50%
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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.