← All leaderboards
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 →

Takedown Defense in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Ateba Gautier
    5-0-0 5 fights #12
    100%
  2. 2
    Ikram Aliskerov
    4-1-0 5 fights #14
    100%
  3. 3
    Bo Nickal
    6-1-0 7 fights #15
    100%
  4. 4
    Cam Rowston
    3-0-0 3 fights #16
    100%
  5. 5
    Baisangur Susurkaev
    3-0-0 3 fights #17
    100%
  6. 6
    Abus Magomedov
    4-3-0 7 fights #35
    100%
  7. 7
    Danny Barlow
    2-2-0 4 fights #52
    100%
  8. 8
    Ryan Loder
    1-2-0 3 fights #61
    100%
  9. 9
    Mansur Abdul-Malik
    3-1-0 4 fights #37
    90%
  10. 10
    Roman Kopylov
    7-5-0 12 fights #31
    89%
  11. 11
    Khamzat Chimaev
    9-1-0 10 fights #2
    88%
  12. 12
    Andre Petroski
    8-5-0 13 fights #34
    86%
  13. 13
    Tresean Gore
    3-4-0 7 fights #51
    84%
  14. 14
    Robert Whittaker
    17-7-0 24 fights #7
    82%
  15. 15
    Nassourdine Imavov
    9-2-0 11 fights #5
    81%
  16. 16
    Eryk Anders
    10-9-0 19 fights #39
    80%
  17. 17
    Brad Tavares
    16-12-0 28 fights #38
    80%
  18. 18
    Djorden Santos
    1-2-0 3 fights #58
    80%
  19. 19
    Israel Adesanya
    13-6-0 19 fights #11
    76%
  20. 20
    Gregory Rodrigues
    10-3-0 13 fights #10
    75%
  21. 21
    Caio Borralho
    8-1-0 9 fights #6
    74%
  22. 22
    Ismail Naurdiev
    4-3-0 7 fights #40
    73%
  23. 23
    Michel Pereira
    10-4-0 14 fights #20
    73%
  24. 24
    Chris Weidman
    12-8-0 20 fights #18
    72%
  25. 25
    Denis Tiuliulin
    1-5-0 6 fights #69
    72%
Other middleweight leaderboards

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.