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Featherweight · 2026

Best Featherweight Striking Defense

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

Mairon Santos leads the featherweight Str Def board at 66% opp. strikes blocked , followed by Youssef Zalal (65%) and Yadier Del Valle (64%) .

Top 25 active featherweight fighters by career-window Str Def. · See full featherweight Elo rankings →

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  1. 1
    Mairon Santos
    4-0-0 4 fights #11
    66%
  2. 2
    Youssef Zalal
    8-4-1 13 fights #26
    65%
  3. 3
    Yadier Del Valle
    2-1-0 3 fights #41
    64%
  4. 4
    Steve Garcia
    8-3-0 11 fights #16
    63%
  5. 5
    Danny Silva
    3-1-0 4 fights #37
    62%
  6. 6
    Jarno Errens
    1-3-0 4 fights #66
    62%
  7. 7
    William Gomis
    5-2-0 7 fights #24
    62%
  8. 8
    Movsar Evloev
    10-0-0 10 fights #2
    61%
  9. 9
    Giga Chikadze
    8-4-0 12 fights #21
    61%
  10. 10
    Aljamain Sterling
    17-5-0 22 fights #3
    61%
  11. 11
    Lerone Murphy
    9-1-1 11 fights #4
    60%
  12. 12
    Arnold Allen
    12-3-0 15 fights #5
    60%
  13. 13
    Josh Culibao
    3-4-1 8 fights #47
    60%
  14. 14
    Josh Emmett
    10-7-0 17 fights #25
    60%
  15. 15
    Jamall Emmers
    5-4-0 9 fights #48
    59%
  16. 16
    Sean Woodson
    7-2-1 10 fights #22
    59%
  17. 17
    Jordan Leavitt
    6-4-0 10 fights #39
    59%
  18. 18
    Alexander Volkanovski C
    15-3-0 18 fights #1
    59%
  19. 19
    Kevin Vallejos
    4-0-0 4 fights #9
    59%
  20. 20
    Cub Swanson
    16-10-0 26 fights #18
    59%
  21. 21
    Vinicius Oliveira
    5-1-0 6 fights #19
    59%
  22. 22
    Jose Aldo
    14-9-0 23 fights #14
    58%
  23. 23
    Jack Jenkins
    4-2-0 6 fights #44
    58%
  24. 24
    Melsik Baghdasaryan
    3-3-0 6 fights #56
    57%
  25. 25
    Dooho Choi
    6-3-1 10 fights #32
    57%
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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.