Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Submission Attempts per 15 Min

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

Jimmy Crute leads the light heavyweight Sub / 15 min board at 2.13 sub attempts / 15 min , followed by Nikita Krylov (1.23) and Billy Elekana (0.85) .

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

1

Jimmy Crute

6-4-2 · 12 UFC fights · #16 division

2.13

Elo 1533
2

Nikita Krylov

12-9-0 · 21 UFC fights · #17 division

1.23

Elo 1532
3

Billy Elekana

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #18 division

0.85

Elo 1520
4

Tuco Tokkos

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #38 division

0.70

Elo 1394
5

Bogdan Guskov

4-1-1 · 6 UFC fights · #9 division

0.69

Elo 1569
6

Brendson Ribeiro

2-5-0 · 7 UFC fights · #32 division

0.61

Elo 1411
7

Anthony Smith

13-12-0 · 25 UFC fights · #19 division

0.46

Elo 1514
8

Johnny Walker

8-7-0 · 15 UFC fights · #21 division

0.43

Elo 1511
9

Jan Blachowicz

12-8-2 · 22 UFC fights · #8 division

0.36

Elo 1573
10

Oumar Sy

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #27 division

0.35

Elo 1474
11

Ovince Saint Preux

15-13-0 · 28 UFC fights · #25 division

0.35

Elo 1492
12

Ion Cutelaba

9-11-1 · 21 UFC fights · #28 division

0.27

Elo 1468
13

Dominick Reyes

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #6 division

0.25

Elo 1583
14

Azamat Murzakanov

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #3 division

0.24

Elo 1611
15

Alonzo Menifield

11-6-1 · 18 UFC fights · #11 division

0.20

Elo 1547
16

Carlos Ulberg C

10-1-0 · 11 UFC fights · #1 division

0.18

Elo 1670
17

Jiri Prochazka

6-3-0 · 9 UFC fights · #7 division

0.16

Elo 1575
18

Da Woon Jung

4-4-1 · 9 UFC fights · #24 division

0.16

Elo 1496
19

Aleksandar Rakic

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #20 division

0.13

Elo 1513
20

Modestas Bukauskas

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #22 division

0.11

Elo 1510
21

Volkan Oezdemir

9-7-0 · 16 UFC fights · #14 division

0.10

Elo 1535
22

Magomed Ankalaev

12-2-1 · 15 UFC fights · #2 division

0.00

Elo 1654
23

Navajo Stirling

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #4 division

0.00

Elo 1604
24

Paulo Costa

8-4-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

0.00

Elo 1592
25

Iwo Baraniewski

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #10 division

0.00

Elo 1554

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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.