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Heavyweight · 2026

Best Heavyweight Submission Attempts per 15 Min

Threat density on the ground — most submission attempts per 15 minutes.

Valter Walker leads the heavyweight Sub / 15 min board at 2.55 sub attempts / 15 min , followed by Jailton Almeida (1.64) and Tom Aspinall (1.63) .

Top 25 active heavyweight fighters by career-window Sub / 15 min. · See full heavyweight Elo rankings →

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  1. 1
    Valter Walker
    4-1-0 5 fights #18
    2.55
  2. 2
    Jailton Almeida
    8-3-0 11 fights #9
    1.64
  3. 3
    Tom Aspinall C
    8-1-0 9 fights #4
    1.63
  4. 4
    Ryan Spann
    10-6-0 16 fights #20
    1.52
  5. 5
    Mario Pinto
    3-0-0 3 fights #12
    1.01
  6. 6
    Alexandr Romanov
    7-3-0 10 fights #13
    0.86
  7. 7
    Vitor Petrino
    7-2-0 9 fights #15
    0.79
  8. 8
    Ciryl Gane IC
    11-2-0 13 fights #1
    0.59
  9. 9
    Josh Hokit
    4-0-0 4 fights #6
    0.50
  10. 10
    Serghei Spivac
    9-6-0 15 fights #17
    0.48
  11. 11
    Marcus Buchecha
    0-2-1 3 fights #37
    0.40
  12. 12
    Rodrigo Nascimento
    4-3-0 7 fights #22
    0.38
  13. 13
    Karl Williams
    3-1-0 4 fights #23
    0.25
  14. 14
    Kennedy Nzechukwu
    8-6-1 15 fights #24
    0.22
  15. 15
    Alex Pereira
    10-3-0 13 fights #3
    0.22
  16. 16
    Thomas Petersen
    3-3-0 6 fights #34
    0.20
  17. 17
    Andrei Arlovski
    23-18-0 41 fights #25
    0.19
  18. 18
    Martin Buday
    7-1-0 8 fights #11
    0.16
  19. 19
    Alexander Volkov
    14-5-0 19 fights #2
    0.12
  20. 20
    Marcin Tybura
    14-10-0 24 fights #21
    0.11
  21. 21
    Waldo Cortes Acosta
    10-3-0 13 fights #8
    0.10
  22. 22
    Sergei Pavlovich
    9-3-0 12 fights #5
    0.00
  23. 23
    Curtis Blaydes
    14-6-0 20 fights #7
    0.00
  24. 24
    Brando Pericic
    3-0-0 3 fights #10
    0.00
  25. 25
    Derrick Lewis
    20-12-0 32 fights #14
    0.00
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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.