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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 Valter Walker (100%) .

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

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  1. 1
    Tom Aspinall C
    8-1-0 10 fights #2
    100%
  2. 2
    Mario Pinto
    4-0-0 4 fights #8
    100%
  3. 3
    Valter Walker
    5-1-0 6 fights #14
    100%
  4. 4
    Steven Asplund
    2-1-0 3 fights #27
    100%
  5. 5
    Hamdy Abdelwahab
    2-1-0 4 fights #30
    100%
  6. 6
    Guilherme Pat
    1-2-0 3 fights #43
    100%
  7. 7
    Martin Buday
    7-1-0 8 fights #13
    93%
  8. 8
    Rizvan Kuniev
    2-1-0 3 fights #23
    92%
  9. 9
    Aleksandar Rakic
    7-5-0 12 fights #19
    87%
  10. 10
    Thomas Petersen
    3-4-0 7 fights #39
    86%
  11. 11
    Shamil Gaziev
    4-3-0 7 fights #26
    83%
  12. 12
    Vitor Petrino
    8-2-0 10 fights #11
    82%
  13. 13
    Kennedy Nzechukwu
    8-7-1 16 fights #29
    81%
  14. 14
    Alex Pereira
    10-3-0 13 fights #4
    80%
  15. 15
    Josh Hokit
    4-0-0 4 fights #7
    78%
  16. 16
    Sergei Pavlovich
    9-3-0 12 fights #6
    75%
  17. 17
    Mick Parkin
    4-2-0 6 fights #22
    75%
  18. 18
    Ante Delija
    1-2-0 3 fights #38
    75%
  19. 19
    Jairzinho Rozenstruik
    9-6-0 15 fights #17
    72%
  20. 20
    Brando Pericic
    3-0-0 3 fights #12
    71%
  21. 21
    Marcin Tybura
    14-11-0 25 fights #24
    71%
  22. 22
    Waldo Cortes Acosta
    10-4-0 14 fights #10
    70%
  23. 23
    Tanner Boser
    6-6-0 12 fights #32
    70%
  24. 24
    Alexander Volkov
    14-5-0 19 fights #3
    69%
  25. 25
    Jailton Almeida
    8-3-0 11 fights #9
    67%
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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 Oct 17, 2026.