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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 →

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  1. 1
    Tom Aspinall C
    8-1-0 9 fights #4
    100%
  2. 2
    Mario Pinto
    3-0-0 3 fights #12
    100%
  3. 3
    Karl Williams
    3-1-0 4 fights #23
    100%
  4. 4
    Hamdy Abdelwahab
    2-1-0 3 fights #28
    100%
  5. 5
    Martin Buday
    7-1-0 8 fights #11
    93%
  6. 6
    Thomas Petersen
    3-3-0 6 fights #34
    86%
  7. 7
    Shamil Gaziev
    3-3-0 6 fights #29
    83%
  8. 8
    Vitor Petrino
    7-2-0 9 fights #15
    81%
  9. 9
    Kennedy Nzechukwu
    8-6-1 15 fights #24
    81%
  10. 10
    Alex Pereira
    10-3-0 13 fights #3
    80%
  11. 11
    Andrei Arlovski
    23-18-0 41 fights #25
    78%
  12. 12
    Josh Hokit
    4-0-0 4 fights #6
    78%
  13. 13
    Sergei Pavlovich
    9-3-0 12 fights #5
    75%
  14. 14
    Mick Parkin
    4-1-0 5 fights #19
    75%
  15. 15
    Ante Delija
    1-2-0 3 fights #36
    75%
  16. 16
    Waldo Cortes Acosta
    10-3-0 13 fights #8
    74%
  17. 17
    Jairzinho Rozenstruik
    9-6-0 15 fights #16
    72%
  18. 18
    Brando Pericic
    3-0-0 3 fights #10
    71%
  19. 19
    Marcin Tybura
    14-10-0 24 fights #21
    71%
  20. 20
    Tanner Boser
    5-6-0 11 fights #32
    70%
  21. 21
    Alexander Volkov
    14-5-0 19 fights #2
    69%
  22. 22
    Jhonata Diniz
    3-2-0 5 fights #27
    69%
  23. 23
    Jailton Almeida
    8-3-0 11 fights #9
    67%
  24. 24
    Mohammed Usman
    4-2-0 6 fights #26
    67%
  25. 25
    Jamal Pogues
    2-2-0 4 fights #33
    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 Jun 20, 2026.