Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Takedown Accuracy

Most efficient takedown attempts — highest landed-of-attempted percentage.

Diyar Nurgozhay leads the light heavyweight TD Acc board at 75% attempts converted , followed by Modestas Bukauskas (67%) and Carlos Ulberg (60%) .

Top 25 active light heavyweight fighters by career-window TD Acc. · See full light heavyweight Elo rankings →

1

Diyar Nurgozhay

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #33 division

75%

Elo 1410
2

Modestas Bukauskas

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #22 division

67%

Elo 1510
3

Carlos Ulberg C

10-1-0 · 11 UFC fights · #1 division

60%

Elo 1670
4

Jiri Prochazka

6-3-0 · 9 UFC fights · #7 division

60%

Elo 1575
5

Jimmy Crute

6-4-2 · 12 UFC fights · #16 division

52%

Elo 1533
6

Ion Cutelaba

9-11-1 · 21 UFC fights · #28 division

51%

Elo 1468
7

Jan Blachowicz

12-8-2 · 22 UFC fights · #8 division

49%

Elo 1573
8

Da Woon Jung

4-4-1 · 9 UFC fights · #24 division

48%

Elo 1496
9

Paulo Costa

8-4-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

43%

Elo 1592
10

Brendson Ribeiro

2-5-0 · 7 UFC fights · #32 division

43%

Elo 1411
11

Navajo Stirling

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #4 division

40%

Elo 1604
12

Johnny Walker

8-7-0 · 15 UFC fights · #21 division

40%

Elo 1511
13

Julius Walker

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #29 division

38%

Elo 1434
14

Nikita Krylov

12-9-0 · 21 UFC fights · #17 division

37%

Elo 1532
15

Alonzo Menifield

11-6-1 · 18 UFC fights · #11 division

36%

Elo 1547
16

Oumar Sy

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #27 division

35%

Elo 1474
17

Tuco Tokkos

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #38 division

35%

Elo 1394
18

Rodolfo Bellato

2-1-1 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

33%

Elo 1497
19

Austen Lane

1-5-0 · 6 UFC fights · #39 division

31%

Elo 1370
20

Volkan Oezdemir

9-7-0 · 16 UFC fights · #14 division

29%

Elo 1535
21

Dominick Reyes

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #6 division

29%

Elo 1583
22

Ovince Saint Preux

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

28%

Elo 1492
23

Anthony Smith

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

23%

Elo 1514
24

Bruno Lopes

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #30 division

23%

Elo 1424
25

Billy Elekana

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #18 division

22%

Elo 1520

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Strikes Landed per Minute Striking Accuracy Lowest Strikes Absorbed Striking Defense Takedowns per 15 Minutes Takedown Defense Submission Attempts per 15 Min Knockdowns per 15 Minutes Control Time per 15 Minutes

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.