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All Divisions · 2026

Best Striking Defense in the UFC

Best at avoiding shots — highest percentage of opponent strikes that miss or get blocked.

11 divisions ranked by career-window Str Def. Tap a division header for the full top-25.

Heavyweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Ciryl Gane IC 61%
  2. 2 Mick Parkin 60%
  3. 3 Jhonata Diniz 58%
  4. 4 Brando Pericic 58%
  5. 5 Mario Pinto 58%
  6. 6 Tanner Boser 58%
  7. 7 Tom Aspinall C 57%
  8. 8 Sergei Pavlovich 56%
  9. 9 Martin Buday 56%
  10. 10 Thomas Petersen 56%
  11. 11 Lukasz Brzeski 55%
  12. 12 Aleksandar Rakic 55%
  13. 13 Marcin Tybura 55%
  14. 14 Waldo Cortes Acosta 55%
  15. 15 Alexander Volkov 54%
  16. 16 Alexandr Romanov 54%
  17. 17 Curtis Blaydes 54%
  18. 18 Ante Delija 53%
  19. 19 Alex Pereira 53%
  20. 20 Jairzinho Rozenstruik 52%
  21. 21 Serghei Spivac 52%
  22. 22 Hamdy Abdelwahab 51%
  23. 23 Mohammed Usman 51%
  24. 24 Kennedy Nzechukwu 51%
  25. 25 Vitor Petrino 51%
Light Heavyweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Oumar Sy 67%
  2. 2 Caio Machado 62%
  3. 3 Navajo Stirling 59%
  4. 4 Robert Whittaker 59%
  5. 5 Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev 58%
  6. 6 Dustin Jacoby 58%
  7. 7 Diyar Nurgozhay 57%
  8. 8 Ibo Aslan 56%
  9. 9 Azamat Murzakanov 56%
  10. 10 Volkan Oezdemir 55%
  11. 11 Magomed Ankalaev 55%
  12. 12 Marcin Prachnio 55%
  13. 13 Iwo Baraniewski 54%
  14. 14 Ivan Erslan 54%
  15. 15 Junior Tafa 52%
  16. 16 Brendson Ribeiro 52%
  17. 17 Jan Blachowicz 52%
  18. 18 Alonzo Menifield 51%
  19. 19 Carlos Ulberg C 51%
  20. 20 Modestas Bukauskas 51%
  21. 21 Dominick Reyes 50%
  22. 22 Khalil Rountree Jr. 50%
  23. 23 Paulo Costa 49%
  24. 24 Da Woon Jung 49%
  25. 25 Johnny Walker 49%
Middleweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Ismail Naurdiev 65%
  2. 2 Donte Johnson 63%
  3. 3 Ozzy Diaz 63%
  4. 4 Sean Strickland C 61%
  5. 5 Michal Oleksiejczuk 60%
  6. 6 Bo Nickal 60%
  7. 7 Caio Borralho 60%
  8. 8 Baisangur Susurkaev 59%
  9. 9 Nassourdine Imavov 59%
  10. 10 Andrey Pulyaev 57%
  11. 11 Kelvin Gastelum 57%
  12. 12 Abus Magomedov 56%
  13. 13 Marco Tulio 56%
  14. 14 Marvin Vettori 56%
  15. 15 Jared Cannonier 56%
  16. 16 Israel Adesanya 56%
  17. 17 Jacob Malkoun 55%
  18. 18 Robert Bryczek 55%
  19. 19 Brad Tavares 55%
  20. 20 Abdul Razak Alhassan 55%
  21. 21 Kamaru Usman 55%
  22. 22 Dricus Du Plessis 54%
  23. 23 Christian Leroy Duncan 54%
  24. 24 Cam Rowston 54%
  25. 25 Ateba Gautier 54%
Welterweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Daniil Donchenko 70%
  2. 2 Seokhyeon Ko 65%
  3. 3 Gabriel Bonfim 64%
  4. 4 Muslim Salikhov 62%
  5. 5 Michael Page 62%
  6. 6 Islam Makhachev C 61%
  7. 7 Santiago Ponzinibbio 61%
  8. 8 Sam Patterson 61%
  9. 9 Court McGee 61%
  10. 10 Jack Della Maddalena 61%
  11. 11 Jake Matthews 61%
  12. 12 Rafael Dos Anjos 60%
  13. 13 Tim Means 60%
  14. 14 Sean Brady 60%
  15. 15 Oban Elliott 60%
  16. 16 Joaquin Buckley 59%
  17. 17 Max Holloway 59%
  18. 18 Trevin Giles 58%
  19. 19 Max Griffin 58%
  20. 20 Michael Chiesa 58%
  21. 21 Michael Morales 57%
  22. 22 Daniel Rodriguez 57%
  23. 23 Mike Malott 57%
  24. 24 Jonathan Micallef 57%
  25. 25 Jack Hermansson 57%
Lightweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Matheus Camilo 67%
  2. 2 Fares Ziam 64%
  3. 3 Nasrat Haqparast 63%
  4. 4 Ilia Topuria 62%
  5. 5 King Green 62%
  6. 6 Axel Sola 61%
  7. 7 Rafa Garcia 61%
  8. 8 Bolaji Oki 61%
  9. 9 Clay Guida 61%
  10. 10 Kaue Fernandes 60%
  11. 11 Mateusz Gamrot 60%
  12. 12 Alexander Hernandez 60%
  13. 13 Renato Moicano 60%
  14. 14 Mauricio Ruffy 60%
  15. 15 Damir Hadzovic 59%
  16. 16 Michael Johnson 59%
  17. 17 Jeremy Stephens 58%
  18. 18 Viacheslav Borshchev 57%
  19. 19 Evan Elder 57%
  20. 20 Beneil Dariush 57%
  21. 21 Diego Ferreira 57%
  22. 22 Jim Miller 57%
  23. 23 Matt Frevola 57%
  24. 24 Mike Davis 56%
  25. 25 Nurullo Aliev 56%
Featherweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Miles Johns 67%
  2. 2 Mairon Santos 66%
  3. 3 Yadier Del Valle 66%
  4. 4 Youssef Zalal 65%
  5. 5 Steve Garcia 63%
  6. 6 Danny Silva 62%
  7. 7 William Gomis 62%
  8. 8 Movsar Evloev 61%
  9. 9 Luke Riley 61%
  10. 10 Giga Chikadze 61%
  11. 11 Lerone Murphy 60%
  12. 12 Arnold Allen 60%
  13. 13 Josh Culibao 60%
  14. 14 Josh Emmett 60%
  15. 15 Jamall Emmers 59%
  16. 16 Aljamain Sterling 59%
  17. 17 Sean Woodson 59%
  18. 18 Jordan Leavitt 59%
  19. 19 Alexander Volkanovski C 59%
  20. 20 Kevin Vallejos 59%
  21. 21 Cub Swanson 59%
  22. 22 Vinicius Oliveira 59%
  23. 23 Jose Aldo 58%
  24. 24 Jack Jenkins 58%
  25. 25 Melsik Baghdasaryan 57%
Bantamweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Suyoung You 70%
  2. 2 David Martinez 70%
  3. 3 Aiemann Zahabi 68%
  4. 4 Santiago Luna 68%
  5. 5 Felipe Lima 65%
  6. 6 Rinya Nakamura 64%
  7. 7 Javid Basharat 64%
  8. 8 Chris Gutierrez 63%
  9. 9 Taylor Lapilus 63%
  10. 10 John Yannis 63%
  11. 11 Umar Nurmagomedov 61%
  12. 12 Farid Basharat 61%
  13. 13 Raoni Barcelos 61%
  14. 14 Cody Stamann 60%
  15. 15 Ricky Simon 60%
  16. 16 Jake Hadley 60%
  17. 17 Sean O'Malley 60%
  18. 18 Cameron Smotherman 60%
  19. 19 Petr Yan C 60%
  20. 20 Muin Gafurov 59%
  21. 21 Montel Jackson 59%
  22. 22 Kyler Phillips 59%
  23. 23 Bryce Mitchell 59%
  24. 24 Cody Garbrandt 59%
  25. 25 Daniel Marcos 58%
Flyweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Alden Coria 70%
  2. 2 Matheus Nicolau 66%
  3. 3 Kai Kara-France 64%
  4. 4 Kyoji Horiguchi 64%
  5. 5 Sumudaerji 63%
  6. 6 Ramazan Temirov 62%
  7. 7 Mitch Raposo 61%
  8. 8 Jesus Aguilar 61%
  9. 9 Brandon Moreno 60%
  10. 10 Amir Albazi 59%
  11. 11 Alex Perez 59%
  12. 12 Nyamjargal Tumendemberel 59%
  13. 13 Jose Ochoa 59%
  14. 14 Joshua Van C 58%
  15. 15 Joseph Morales 58%
  16. 16 Andre Lima 57%
  17. 17 Manel Kape 57%
  18. 18 Hyunsung Park 57%
  19. 19 Tim Elliott 56%
  20. 20 Steve Erceg 56%
  21. 21 Charles Johnson 56%
  22. 22 Matt Schnell 55%
  23. 23 Alessandro Costa 54%
  24. 24 Stewart Nicoll 54%
  25. 25 Victor Altamirano 54%
Women's Bantamweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Bia Mesquita 71%
  2. 2 Jacqueline Cavalcanti 69%
  3. 3 Kayla Harrison C 66%
  4. 4 Luana Santos 64%
  5. 5 Norma Dumont 64%
  6. 6 Daria Zhelezniakova 64%
  7. 7 Raquel Pennington 61%
  8. 8 Melissa Croden 59%
  9. 9 Montse Rendon 57%
  10. 10 Julianna Pena 57%
  11. 11 Ailin Perez 57%
  12. 12 Irene Aldana 56%
  13. 13 Klaudia Sygula 56%
  14. 14 Nora Cornolle 56%
  15. 15 Julia Avila 56%
  16. 16 Melissa Mullins 53%
  17. 17 Yana Santos 53%
  18. 18 Luana Carolina 52%
  19. 19 Miesha Tate 52%
  20. 20 Josiane Nunes 52%
  21. 21 Mayra Bueno Silva 52%
  22. 22 Ketlen Vieira 51%
  23. 23 Joselyne Edwards 50%
  24. 24 Karol Rosa 50%
  25. 25 Tamires Vidal 49%
Women's Flyweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Manon Fiorot 67%
  2. 2 Natalia Silva 66%
  3. 3 Dione Barbosa 64%
  4. 4 Jamey-Lyn Horth 64%
  5. 5 Rose Namajunas 64%
  6. 6 Valentina Shevchenko C 64%
  7. 7 JJ Aldrich 62%
  8. 8 Miranda Maverick 62%
  9. 9 Andrea Lee 61%
  10. 10 Wang Cong 60%
  11. 11 Carli Judice 60%
  12. 12 Erin Blanchfield 59%
  13. 13 Alexa Grasso 59%
  14. 14 Eduarda Moura 59%
  15. 15 Casey O'Neill 58%
  16. 16 Maycee Barber 58%
  17. 17 Lauren Murphy 57%
  18. 18 Ivana Petrovic 56%
  19. 19 Viviane Araujo 56%
  20. 20 Melissa Gatto 54%
  21. 21 Ernesta Kareckaite 54%
  22. 22 Karine Silva 54%
  23. 23 Tracy Cortez 54%
  24. 24 Zhang Weili 53%
  25. 25 Gabriella Fernandes 53%
Women's Strawweight Top 25 →
  1. 1 Stephanie Luciano 64%
  2. 2 Molly McCann 63%
  3. 3 Loopy Godinez 62%
  4. 4 Iasmin Lucindo 62%
  5. 5 Fatima Kline 62%
  6. 6 Tecia Pennington 62%
  7. 7 Alice Ardelean 61%
  8. 8 Angela Hill 60%
  9. 9 Yan Xiaonan 60%
  10. 10 Amanda Ribas 60%
  11. 11 Rayanne Dos Santos 60%
  12. 12 Istela Nunes 60%
  13. 13 Luana Pinheiro 60%
  14. 14 Sam Hughes 58%
  15. 15 Tabatha Ricci 58%
  16. 16 Julia Polastri 58%
  17. 17 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 57%
  18. 18 Gillian Robertson 57%
  19. 19 Marina Rodriguez 56%
  20. 20 Virna Jandiroba 56%
  21. 21 Jaqueline Amorim 55%
  22. 22 Yazmin Jauregui 55%
  23. 23 Carla Esparza 54%
  24. 24 Jessica Andrade 54%
  25. 25 Talita Alencar 54%
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Career averages, calculated over each fighter's full UFC sample. Provisional fighters (fewer than 4 UFC bouts) and retired fighters are excluded. Source: UFCStats via daily pipeline. Updated Aug 15, 2026.