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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 →

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  1. 1
    Iwo Baraniewski
    3-0-0 3 fights #10
    100%
  2. 2
    Zhang Mingyang
    3-2-0 5 fights #27
    100%
  3. 3
    Julius Walker
    1-3-0 4 fights #32
    100%
  4. 4
    Bruno Lopes
    1-3-0 4 fights #38
    100%
  5. 5
    Rodolfo Bellato
    2-1-1 5 fights #24
    92%
  6. 6
    Azamat Murzakanov
    6-1-0 7 fights #5
    89%
  7. 7
    Magomed Ankalaev
    13-2-1 17 fights #2
    88%
  8. 8
    Ibo Aslan
    2-3-0 5 fights #33
    88%
  9. 9
    Carlos Ulberg C
    10-1-0 11 fights #1
    86%
  10. 10
    Dominick Reyes
    10-5-0 15 fights #7
    83%
  11. 11
    Modestas Bukauskas
    8-5-0 13 fights #23
    82%
  12. 12
    Robert Whittaker
    18-7-0 25 fights #3
    80%
  13. 13
    Alonzo Menifield
    11-6-1 18 fights #13
    80%
  14. 14
    Volkan Oezdemir
    9-7-0 16 fights #15
    80%
  15. 15
    Paulo Costa
    8-4-0 12 fights #6
    78%
  16. 16
    Ion Cutelaba
    9-11-1 21 fights #29
    76%
  17. 17
    Da Woon Jung
    4-4-1 9 fights #25
    76%
  18. 18
    Junior Tafa
    3-6-0 9 fights #34
    73%
  19. 19
    Jamahal Hill
    6-4-0 11 fights #17
    71%
  20. 20
    Jan Blachowicz
    12-9-2 23 fights #9
    70%
  21. 21
    Diyar Nurgozhay
    2-2-0 4 fights #30
    70%
  22. 22
    Caio Machado
    0-3-0 3 fights #35
    70%
  23. 23
    Navajo Stirling
    6-0-0 6 fights #4
    70%
  24. 24
    Ivan Erslan
    1-3-0 4 fights #31
    69%
  25. 25
    Jiri Prochazka
    6-3-0 9 fights #8
    68%
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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 Aug 15, 2026.