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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 →

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  1. 1
    Jacobe Smith
    3-0-0 3 fights #24
    100%
  2. 2
    Charles Radtke
    5-2-0 7 fights #46
    100%
  3. 3
    Kevin Jousset
    2-2-0 4 fights #63
    100%
  4. 4
    Rinat Fakhretdinov
    6-0-1 7 fights #9
    92%
  5. 5
    Islam Makhachev C
    18-1-0 19 fights #1
    91%
  6. 6
    Carlos Leal
    2-2-0 4 fights #52
    91%
  7. 7
    Belal Muhammad
    15-6-0 22 fights #12
    91%
  8. 8
    Trey Waters
    2-1-0 3 fights #54
    90%
  9. 9
    Geoff Neal
    8-6-0 14 fights #36
    90%
  10. 10
    Michael Morales
    7-0-0 7 fights #4
    88%
  11. 11
    Sean Brady
    9-2-0 11 fights #6
    87%
  12. 12
    Shavkat Rakhmonov
    7-0-0 7 fights #3
    86%
  13. 13
    Max Holloway
    24-9-0 33 fights #2
    81%
  14. 14
    Jack Hermansson
    11-8-0 19 fights #44
    81%
  15. 15
    Carlos Prates
    7-1-0 8 fights #7
    79%
  16. 16
    Gabriel Bonfim
    7-1-0 8 fights #10
    79%
  17. 17
    Ange Loosa
    2-3-0 6 fights #71
    78%
  18. 18
    Daniil Donchenko
    3-0-0 3 fights #22
    75%
  19. 19
    Chidi Njokuani
    6-5-0 11 fights #58
    75%
  20. 20
    Randy Brown
    14-8-0 22 fights #31
    75%
  21. 21
    Song Kenan
    6-5-0 11 fights #49
    74%
  22. 22
    Themba Gorimbo
    4-4-0 8 fights #50
    73%
  23. 23
    Mike Malott
    7-1-0 8 fights #15
    73%
  24. 24
    Muslim Salikhov
    9-5-0 14 fights #29
    72%
  25. 25
    Trevin Giles
    7-7-0 14 fights #62
    72%
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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.