Lightweight · 2026

Best Lightweight Takedown Defense

Best stuffing wrestlers — highest percentage of opponent takedowns blocked.

Nikolas Motta leads the lightweight TD Def board at 100% opp. takedowns blocked , followed by Trey Ogden (100%) and Ottman Azaitar (100%) .

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

1

Nikolas Motta

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #51 division

100%

Elo 1479
2

Trey Ogden

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #55 division

100%

Elo 1474
3

Ottman Azaitar

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #79 division

100%

Elo 1413
4

Anshul Jubli

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #82 division

100%

Elo 1405
5

Ilia Topuria

9-1-0 · 10 UFC fights · #1 division

95%

Elo 1686
6

Gauge Young

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #54 division

92%

Elo 1477
7

Rafael Fiziev

7-5-0 · 12 UFC fights · #29 division

90%

Elo 1534
8

Manuel Torres

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #15 division

90%

Elo 1575
9

Francis Marshall

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #60 division

89%

Elo 1458
10

Nasrat Haqparast

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #28 division

86%

Elo 1540
11

Mauricio Ruffy

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #17 division

85%

Elo 1573
12

Mateusz Gamrot

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #10 division

83%

Elo 1609
13

Rongzhu

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #70 division

83%

Elo 1445
14

Beneil Dariush

17-8-1 · 26 UFC fights · #13 division

83%

Elo 1594
15

Daniel Zellhuber

3-4-0 · 7 UFC fights · #66 division

82%

Elo 1451
16

Max Holloway

23-9-0 · 32 UFC fights · #3 division

81%

Elo 1676
17

Michael Johnson

16-16-0 · 32 UFC fights · #49 division

81%

Elo 1486
18

Chris Padilla

4-0-1 · 5 UFC fights · #14 division

80%

Elo 1579
19

Nurullo Aliev

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #21 division

80%

Elo 1558
20

Marquel Mederos

3-0-1 · 4 UFC fights · #25 division

78%

Elo 1552
21

Dan Hooker

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

77%

Elo 1555
22

Rafa Garcia

7-4-0 · 11 UFC fights · #31 division

77%

Elo 1530
23

Kaue Fernandes

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #38 division

77%

Elo 1514
24

Ludovit Klein

8-3-1 · 12 UFC fights · #18 division

76%

Elo 1563
25

Elves Brener

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #58 division

76%

Elo 1466

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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.