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Welterweight · 2026

Best Welterweight Submission Attempts per 15 Min

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

Preston Parsons leads the welterweight Sub / 15 min board at 2.31 sub attempts / 15 min , followed by Mickey Gall (1.58) and Ramiz Brahimaj (1.44) .

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

Submission Attempts per 15 Min in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Preston Parsons
    2-4-0 6 fights #70
    2.31
  2. 2
    Mickey Gall
    6-7-0 13 fights #57
    1.58
  3. 3
    Ramiz Brahimaj
    5-5-0 10 fights #61
    1.44
  4. 4
    Jeremiah Wells
    6-2-0 8 fights #26
    1.31
  5. 5
    Shavkat Rakhmonov
    7-0-0 7 fights #3
    1.20
  6. 6
    Jacobe Smith
    3-0-0 3 fights #24
    1.13
  7. 7
    Michael Chiesa
    15-7-0 22 fights #14
    1.04
  8. 8
    Gunnar Nelson
    10-6-0 16 fights #35
    1.00
  9. 9
    Joel Alvarez
    8-4-0 12 fights #34
    0.90
  10. 10
    Gabriel Bonfim
    7-1-0 8 fights #10
    0.90
  11. 11
    Islam Makhachev C
    18-1-0 19 fights #1
    0.87
  12. 12
    Sam Patterson
    5-2-0 7 fights #33
    0.85
  13. 13
    Sean Brady
    9-2-0 11 fights #6
    0.82
  14. 14
    Francisco Prado
    1-5-0 6 fights #77
    0.76
  15. 15
    Jake Matthews
    16-8-0 24 fights #20
    0.71
  16. 16
    Kevin Holland
    16-12-0 29 fights #39
    0.63
  17. 17
    Niko Price
    8-11-0 21 fights #65
    0.62
  18. 18
    Mike Malott
    7-1-0 8 fights #15
    0.59
  19. 19
    Rafael Dos Anjos
    21-15-0 36 fights #28
    0.57
  20. 20
    Randy Brown
    14-8-0 22 fights #31
    0.52
  21. 21
    Nikolay Veretennikov
    2-4-0 6 fights #69
    0.50
  22. 22
    Charles Radtke
    5-2-0 7 fights #46
    0.50
  23. 23
    Trey Waters
    2-1-0 3 fights #54
    0.45
  24. 24
    Carlston Harris
    4-4-0 8 fights #48
    0.45
  25. 25
    Court McGee
    11-13-0 24 fights #66
    0.45
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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 Aug 15, 2026.