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 Ramiz Brahimaj (1.60) and Mickey Gall (1.58) .

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

1

Preston Parsons

2-4-0 · 6 UFC fights · #67 division

2.31

Elo 1424
2

Ramiz Brahimaj

5-4-0 · 9 UFC fights · #52 division

1.60

Elo 1474
3

Mickey Gall

6-7-0 · 13 UFC fights · #55 division

1.58

Elo 1465
4

Jeremiah Wells

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #35 division

1.31

Elo 1539
5

Shavkat Rakhmonov

7-0-0 · 7 UFC fights · #3 division

1.20

Elo 1679
6

Jacobe Smith

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #25 division

1.13

Elo 1567
7

Sam Patterson

4-2-0 · 6 UFC fights · #38 division

1.10

Elo 1533
8

Joel Alvarez

8-3-0 · 11 UFC fights · #17 division

1.06

Elo 1589
9

Michael Chiesa

15-7-0 · 22 UFC fights · #13 division

1.04

Elo 1616
10

Gunnar Nelson

10-6-0 · 16 UFC fights · #30 division

1.00

Elo 1552
11

Islam Makhachev C

17-1-0 · 18 UFC fights · #1 division

0.98

Elo 1802
12

Gabriel Bonfim

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #10 division

0.90

Elo 1623
13

Sean Brady

9-2-0 · 11 UFC fights · #6 division

0.82

Elo 1645
14

Francisco Prado

1-5-0 · 6 UFC fights · #75 division

0.76

Elo 1380
15

Niko Price

8-11-0 · 19 UFC fights · #62 division

0.72

Elo 1448
16

Gilbert Urbina

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #72 division

0.71

Elo 1399
17

Jake Matthews

16-8-0 · 24 UFC fights · #20 division

0.71

Elo 1580
18

Kevin Holland

16-12-0 · 28 UFC fights · #36 division

0.64

Elo 1539
19

Mike Malott

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #14 division

0.59

Elo 1612
20

Rafael Dos Anjos

21-15-0 · 36 UFC fights · #26 division

0.57

Elo 1561
21

Randy Brown

14-8-0 · 22 UFC fights · #29 division

0.52

Elo 1558
22

Nikolay Veretennikov

2-4-0 · 6 UFC fights · #66 division

0.50

Elo 1428
23

Charles Radtke

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #44 division

0.50

Elo 1515
24

Myktybek Orolbai

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #23 division

0.49

Elo 1578
25

Trey Waters

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #51 division

0.45

Elo 1475

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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.