Welterweight · 2026

Best Welterweight Takedown Defense

Best stuffing wrestlers — highest percentage of opponent takedowns blocked.

Jacobe Smith leads the welterweight TD Def board at 100% opp. takedowns blocked , followed by Charles Radtke (100%) and Kevin Jousset (100%) .

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

1

Jacobe Smith

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #25 division

100%

Elo 1567
2

Charles Radtke

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #44 division

100%

Elo 1515
3

Kevin Jousset

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #61 division

100%

Elo 1451
4

Rinat Fakhretdinov

6-0-1 · 7 UFC fights · #9 division

92%

Elo 1625
5

Islam Makhachev C

17-1-0 · 18 UFC fights · #1 division

91%

Elo 1802
6

Carlos Leal

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #50 division

91%

Elo 1479
7

Belal Muhammad

15-6-0 · 21 UFC fights · #12 division

90%

Elo 1618
8

Trey Waters

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #51 division

90%

Elo 1475
9

Kamaru Usman

16-3-0 · 19 UFC fights · #2 division

90%

Elo 1691
10

Geoff Neal

8-6-0 · 14 UFC fights · #31 division

90%

Elo 1549
11

Michael Morales

7-0-0 · 7 UFC fights · #4 division

88%

Elo 1671
12

Sean Brady

9-2-0 · 11 UFC fights · #6 division

87%

Elo 1645
13

Shavkat Rakhmonov

7-0-0 · 7 UFC fights · #3 division

86%

Elo 1679
14

Ange Loosa

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #69 division

86%

Elo 1420
15

Jack Hermansson

11-8-0 · 19 UFC fights · #43 division

81%

Elo 1521
16

Ian Machado Garry

10-1-0 · 11 UFC fights · #5 division

80%

Elo 1669
17

Carlos Prates

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #7 division

79%

Elo 1645
18

Gabriel Bonfim

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #10 division

79%

Elo 1623
19

Chidi Njokuani

5-5-0 · 10 UFC fights · #63 division

75%

Elo 1447
20

Randy Brown

14-8-0 · 22 UFC fights · #29 division

75%

Elo 1558
21

Song Kenan

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #47 division

74%

Elo 1491
22

Themba Gorimbo

4-4-0 · 8 UFC fights · #48 division

73%

Elo 1488
23

Mike Malott

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #14 division

73%

Elo 1612
24

Muslim Salikhov

9-5-0 · 14 UFC fights · #28 division

72%

Elo 1559
25

Trevin Giles

7-7-0 · 14 UFC fights · #59 division

72%

Elo 1456

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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.