Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Takedown Defense

Best stuffing wrestlers — highest percentage of opponent takedowns blocked.

Iwo Baraniewski leads the light heavyweight TD Def board at 100% opp. takedowns blocked , followed by Zhang Mingyang (100%) and Julius Walker (100%) .

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

1

Iwo Baraniewski

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #10 division

100%

Elo 1554
2

Zhang Mingyang

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #26 division

100%

Elo 1479
3

Julius Walker

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #29 division

100%

Elo 1434
4

Bruno Lopes

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #30 division

100%

Elo 1424
5

Azamat Murzakanov

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #3 division

89%

Elo 1611
6

Magomed Ankalaev

12-2-1 · 15 UFC fights · #2 division

88%

Elo 1654
7

Ibo Aslan

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #34 division

88%

Elo 1407
8

Carlos Ulberg C

10-1-0 · 11 UFC fights · #1 division

86%

Elo 1670
9

Aleksandar Rakic

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #20 division

86%

Elo 1513
10

Rodolfo Bellato

2-1-1 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

86%

Elo 1497
11

Dominick Reyes

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #6 division

83%

Elo 1583
12

Modestas Bukauskas

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #22 division

82%

Elo 1510
13

Alonzo Menifield

11-6-1 · 18 UFC fights · #11 division

80%

Elo 1547
14

Volkan Oezdemir

9-7-0 · 16 UFC fights · #14 division

80%

Elo 1535
15

Paulo Costa

8-4-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

78%

Elo 1592
16

Diyar Nurgozhay

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #33 division

78%

Elo 1410
17

Ion Cutelaba

9-11-1 · 21 UFC fights · #28 division

76%

Elo 1468
18

Da Woon Jung

4-4-1 · 9 UFC fights · #24 division

76%

Elo 1496
19

Junior Tafa

3-6-0 · 9 UFC fights · #35 division

73%

Elo 1406
20

Jamahal Hill

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #15 division

71%

Elo 1534
21

Caio Machado

0-3-0 · 3 UFC fights · #36 division

70%

Elo 1402
22

Navajo Stirling

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #4 division

70%

Elo 1604
23

Jan Blachowicz

12-8-2 · 22 UFC fights · #8 division

69%

Elo 1573
24

Ivan Erslan

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #31 division

69%

Elo 1412
25

Jiri Prochazka

6-3-0 · 9 UFC fights · #7 division

68%

Elo 1575

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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.