Women's Bantamweight · 2026

Best Women's Bantamweight Takedown Defense

Best stuffing wrestlers — highest percentage of opponent takedowns blocked.

Kayla Harrison leads the women's bantamweight TD Def board at 100% opp. takedowns blocked , followed by Hailey Cowan (100%) and Ketlen Vieira (90%) .

Top 25 active women's bantamweight fighters by career-window TD Def. · See full women's bantamweight Elo rankings →

1

Kayla Harrison C

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #1 division

100%

Elo 1594
2

Hailey Cowan

0-3-0 · 3 UFC fights · #32 division

100%

Elo 1388
3

Ketlen Vieira

10-5-0 · 15 UFC fights · #8 division

90%

Elo 1547
4

Luana Santos

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #2 division

86%

Elo 1577
5

Jacqueline Cavalcanti

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #3 division

86%

Elo 1573
6

Montse Rendon

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #25 division

86%

Elo 1441
7

Melissa Mullins

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #28 division

86%

Elo 1422
8

Irene Aldana

8-6-0 · 14 UFC fights · #11 division

78%

Elo 1521
9

Karol Rosa

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #12 division

73%

Elo 1510
10

Ailin Perez

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #4 division

73%

Elo 1572
11

Norma Dumont

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #5 division

72%

Elo 1566
12

Priscila Cachoeira

5-9-0 · 14 UFC fights · #30 division

70%

Elo 1399
13

Melissa Croden

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #15 division

67%

Elo 1492
14

Pannie Kianzad

5-6-0 · 11 UFC fights · #20 division

66%

Elo 1460
15

Luana Carolina

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #16 division

65%

Elo 1475
16

Raquel Pennington

13-6-0 · 19 UFC fights · #7 division

63%

Elo 1564
17

Macy Chiasson

8-6-0 · 14 UFC fights · #14 division

63%

Elo 1503
18

Mayra Bueno Silva

5-7-1 · 13 UFC fights · #24 division

63%

Elo 1444
19

Joselyne Edwards

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #9 division

62%

Elo 1545
20

Miesha Tate

7-7-0 · 14 UFC fights · #18 division

59%

Elo 1471
21

Josiane Nunes

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #22 division

58%

Elo 1445
22

Tainara Lisboa

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #27 division

53%

Elo 1438
23

Julia Avila

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #21 division

53%

Elo 1453
24

Yana Santos

7-5-0 · 12 UFC fights · #13 division

52%

Elo 1505
25

Daria Zhelezniakova

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

50%

Elo 1444

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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.