Heavyweight · 2026

Best Heavyweight Takedown Defense

Best stuffing wrestlers — highest percentage of opponent takedowns blocked.

Tom Aspinall leads the heavyweight TD Def board at 100% opp. takedowns blocked , followed by Mario Pinto (100%) and Karl Williams (100%) .

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

1

Tom Aspinall C

8-1-0 · 9 UFC fights · #4 division

100%

Elo 1654
2

Mario Pinto

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #12 division

100%

Elo 1564
3

Karl Williams

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

100%

Elo 1495
4

Hamdy Abdelwahab

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #28 division

100%

Elo 1477
5

Martin Buday

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #11 division

93%

Elo 1565
6

Thomas Petersen

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #34 division

86%

Elo 1444
7

Shamil Gaziev

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #29 division

83%

Elo 1475
8

Vitor Petrino

7-2-0 · 9 UFC fights · #15 division

81%

Elo 1554
9

Kennedy Nzechukwu

8-6-1 · 15 UFC fights · #24 division

81%

Elo 1494
10

Alex Pereira

10-3-0 · 13 UFC fights · #3 division

80%

Elo 1655
11

Andrei Arlovski

23-18-0 · 41 UFC fights · #25 division

78%

Elo 1489
12

Josh Hokit

4-0-0 · 4 UFC fights · #6 division

78%

Elo 1613
13

Sergei Pavlovich

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

75%

Elo 1619
14

Mick Parkin

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #19 division

75%

Elo 1542
15

Ante Delija

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #36 division

75%

Elo 1439
16

Waldo Cortes Acosta

10-3-0 · 13 UFC fights · #8 division

74%

Elo 1601
17

Jairzinho Rozenstruik

9-6-0 · 15 UFC fights · #16 division

72%

Elo 1553
18

Brando Pericic

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #10 division

71%

Elo 1566
19

Marcin Tybura

14-10-0 · 24 UFC fights · #21 division

71%

Elo 1526
20

Tanner Boser

5-6-0 · 11 UFC fights · #32 division

70%

Elo 1446
21

Alexander Volkov

14-5-0 · 19 UFC fights · #2 division

69%

Elo 1656
22

Jhonata Diniz

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #27 division

69%

Elo 1477
23

Jailton Almeida

8-3-0 · 11 UFC fights · #9 division

67%

Elo 1594
24

Mohammed Usman

4-2-0 · 6 UFC fights · #26 division

67%

Elo 1482
25

Jamal Pogues

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #33 division

67%

Elo 1444

Other heavyweight leaderboards

Strikes Landed per Minute Striking Accuracy Lowest Strikes Absorbed Striking Defense Takedowns per 15 Minutes Takedown Accuracy 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.