Middleweight · 2026

Best Middleweight Takedown Defense

Best stuffing wrestlers — highest percentage of opponent takedowns blocked.

Ateba Gautier leads the middleweight TD Def board at 100% opp. takedowns blocked , followed by Ikram Aliskerov (100%) and Bo Nickal (100%) .

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

1

Ateba Gautier

5-0-0 · 5 UFC fights · #12 division

100%

Elo 1603
2

Ikram Aliskerov

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #14 division

100%

Elo 1581
3

Bo Nickal

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #15 division

100%

Elo 1572
4

Cam Rowston

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #16 division

100%

Elo 1567
5

Baisangur Susurkaev

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #17 division

100%

Elo 1565
6

Abus Magomedov

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #35 division

100%

Elo 1511
7

Danny Barlow

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #52 division

100%

Elo 1434
8

Ryan Loder

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #61 division

100%

Elo 1418
9

Mansur Abdul-Malik

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #37 division

90%

Elo 1501
10

Roman Kopylov

7-5-0 · 12 UFC fights · #31 division

89%

Elo 1525
11

Khamzat Chimaev

9-1-0 · 10 UFC fights · #2 division

88%

Elo 1676
12

Andre Petroski

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #34 division

86%

Elo 1512
13

Tresean Gore

3-4-0 · 7 UFC fights · #51 division

84%

Elo 1439
14

Robert Whittaker

17-7-0 · 24 UFC fights · #7 division

82%

Elo 1620
15

Nassourdine Imavov

9-2-0 · 11 UFC fights · #5 division

81%

Elo 1648
16

Eryk Anders

10-9-0 · 19 UFC fights · #39 division

80%

Elo 1499
17

Brad Tavares

16-12-0 · 28 UFC fights · #38 division

80%

Elo 1500
18

Djorden Santos

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #58 division

80%

Elo 1422
19

Israel Adesanya

13-6-0 · 19 UFC fights · #11 division

76%

Elo 1603
20

Gregory Rodrigues

10-3-0 · 13 UFC fights · #10 division

75%

Elo 1603
21

Caio Borralho

8-1-0 · 9 UFC fights · #6 division

74%

Elo 1634
22

Ismail Naurdiev

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #40 division

73%

Elo 1496
23

Michel Pereira

10-4-0 · 14 UFC fights · #20 division

73%

Elo 1561
24

Chris Weidman

12-8-0 · 20 UFC fights · #18 division

72%

Elo 1564
25

Denis Tiuliulin

1-5-0 · 6 UFC fights · #69 division

72%

Elo 1386

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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.