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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 3.59 sub attempts / 15 min , followed by Jailton Almeida (1.64) and Ryan Spann (1.58) .

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

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  1. 1
    Valter Walker
    5-1-0 6 fights #14
    3.59
  2. 2
    Jailton Almeida
    8-3-0 11 fights #9
    1.64
  3. 3
    Ryan Spann
    10-7-0 17 fights #21
    1.58
  4. 4
    Tom Aspinall C
    8-1-0 10 fights #2
    1.31
  5. 5
    Alexandr Romanov
    7-3-0 10 fights #15
    0.86
  6. 6
    Mario Pinto
    4-0-0 4 fights #8
    0.84
  7. 7
    Vitor Petrino
    8-2-0 10 fights #11
    0.68
  8. 8
    Ciryl Gane IC
    11-2-0 14 fights #1
    0.58
  9. 9
    Josh Hokit
    4-0-0 4 fights #7
    0.50
  10. 10
    Serghei Spivac
    9-7-0 16 fights #20
    0.43
  11. 11
    Marcus Buchecha
    0-2-1 3 fights #40
    0.40
  12. 12
    Johnny Walker
    9-7-0 17 fights #18
    0.40
  13. 13
    Steven Asplund
    2-1-0 3 fights #27
    0.39
  14. 14
    Rodrigo Nascimento
    4-3-0 8 fights #25
    0.35
  15. 15
    Kennedy Nzechukwu
    8-7-1 16 fights #29
    0.22
  16. 16
    Alex Pereira
    10-3-0 13 fights #4
    0.22
  17. 17
    Thomas Petersen
    3-4-0 7 fights #39
    0.20
  18. 18
    Martin Buday
    7-1-0 8 fights #13
    0.16
  19. 19
    Alexander Volkov
    14-5-0 19 fights #3
    0.12
  20. 20
    Aleksandar Rakic
    7-5-0 12 fights #19
    0.11
  21. 21
    Tanner Boser
    6-6-0 12 fights #32
    0.11
  22. 22
    Marcin Tybura
    14-11-0 25 fights #24
    0.11
  23. 23
    Waldo Cortes Acosta
    10-4-0 14 fights #10
    0.09
  24. 24
    Curtis Blaydes
    15-6-0 22 fights #5
    0.00
  25. 25
    Sergei Pavlovich
    9-3-0 12 fights #6
    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 Oct 17, 2026.