Middleweight · 2026

Best Middleweight Submission Attempts per 15 Min

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

Julian Marquez leads the middleweight Sub / 15 min board at 2.67 sub attempts / 15 min , followed by Robert Valentin (1.78) and Anthony Hernandez (1.64) .

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

1

Julian Marquez

3-5-0 · 8 UFC fights · #60 division

2.67

Elo 1419
2

Robert Valentin

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #67 division

1.78

Elo 1397
3

Anthony Hernandez

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #13 division

1.64

Elo 1602
4

Gerald Meerschaert

12-14-0 · 26 UFC fights · #48 division

1.49

Elo 1448
5

Bo Nickal

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #15 division

1.47

Elo 1572
6

Khamzat Chimaev

9-1-0 · 10 UFC fights · #2 division

1.37

Elo 1676
7

Ryan Loder

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #61 division

1.37

Elo 1418
8

Andre Petroski

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #34 division

1.23

Elo 1512
9

Jackson Mcvey

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #56 division

1.20

Elo 1430
10

Andre Muniz

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #30 division

1.18

Elo 1533
11

Josh Fremd

2-4-0 · 6 UFC fights · #57 division

1.09

Elo 1424
12

Zach Reese

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #44 division

1.06

Elo 1473
13

Dustin Stoltzfus

3-7-0 · 10 UFC fights · #68 division

1.01

Elo 1392
14

Brendan Allen

15-4-0 · 19 UFC fights · #4 division

1.01

Elo 1654
15

Tresean Gore

3-4-0 · 7 UFC fights · #51 division

0.96

Elo 1439
16

Nassourdine Imavov

9-2-0 · 11 UFC fights · #5 division

0.94

Elo 1648
17

Kyle Daukaus

4-5-0 · 9 UFC fights · #45 division

0.92

Elo 1455
18

Rodolfo Vieira

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #42 division

0.91

Elo 1477
19

Baisangur Susurkaev

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #17 division

0.91

Elo 1565
20

Junyong Park

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #28 division

0.84

Elo 1539
21

Joe Pyfer

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #8 division

0.84

Elo 1615
22

Chris Weidman

12-8-0 · 20 UFC fights · #18 division

0.82

Elo 1564
23

Jacob Malkoun

6-2-0 · 8 UFC fights · #27 division

0.78

Elo 1546
24

Brunno Ferreira

6-3-0 · 9 UFC fights · #33 division

0.77

Elo 1515
25

Roman Dolidze

9-5-0 · 14 UFC fights · #26 division

0.74

Elo 1546

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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.