Flyweight · 2026

Best Flyweight Takedown Defense

Best stuffing wrestlers — highest percentage of opponent takedowns blocked.

Lone'Er Kavanagh leads the flyweight TD Def board at 94% opp. takedowns blocked , followed by Matheus Nicolau (90%) and Andre Lima (88%) .

Top 25 active flyweight fighters by career-window TD Def. · See full flyweight Elo rankings →

1

Lone'Er Kavanagh

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #17 division

94%

Elo 1506
2

Matheus Nicolau

7-4-0 · 11 UFC fights · #15 division

90%

Elo 1512
3

Andre Lima

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #21 division

88%

Elo 1488
4

Azat Maksum

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #41 division

86%

Elo 1395
5

Alessandro Costa

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #25 division

84%

Elo 1469
6

Kai Kara-France

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #13 division

84%

Elo 1519
7

Kevin Borjas

2-4-0 · 6 UFC fights · #42 division

81%

Elo 1389
8

Manel Kape

8-3-0 · 11 UFC fights · #3 division

79%

Elo 1601
9

Joshua Van C

10-1-0 · 11 UFC fights · #2 division

76%

Elo 1633
10

Alex Perez

8-6-0 · 14 UFC fights · #10 division

74%

Elo 1523
11

Bruno Silva

9-13-0 · 22 UFC fights · #32 division

73%

Elo 1429
12

Sumudaerji

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #22 division

72%

Elo 1485
13

Mitch Raposo

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #30 division

71%

Elo 1454
14

Nyamjargal Tumendemberel

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #23 division

70%

Elo 1478
15

Alexandre Pantoja

14-4-0 · 18 UFC fights · #1 division

69%

Elo 1646
16

Charles Johnson

8-6-0 · 14 UFC fights · #19 division

69%

Elo 1494
17

Steve Erceg

5-3-0 · 8 UFC fights · #18 division

67%

Elo 1505
18

Daniel Barez

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #43 division

67%

Elo 1389
19

Jose Ochoa

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #28 division

66%

Elo 1462
20

Brandon Moreno

11-7-2 · 20 UFC fights · #9 division

65%

Elo 1540
21

Carlos Hernandez

3-4-0 · 7 UFC fights · #34 division

64%

Elo 1424
22

Tagir Ulanbekov

6-2-0 · 8 UFC fights · #8 division

63%

Elo 1552
23

Amir Albazi

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #7 division

63%

Elo 1565
24

Kyoji Horiguchi

9-2-0 · 11 UFC fights · #5 division

61%

Elo 1578
25

Cj Vergara

3-5-0 · 8 UFC fights · #33 division

60%

Elo 1428

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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.