Women's Strawweight · 2026

Best Women's Strawweight Takedown Defense

Best stuffing wrestlers — highest percentage of opponent takedowns blocked.

Alexia Thainara leads the women's strawweight TD Def board at 100% opp. takedowns blocked , followed by Talita Alencar (100%) and Yazmin Jauregui (100%) .

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

1

Alexia Thainara

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #5 division

100%

Elo 1561
2

Talita Alencar

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #11 division

100%

Elo 1540
3

Yazmin Jauregui

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #29 division

100%

Elo 1457
4

Nicolle Caliari

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #36 division

100%

Elo 1424
5

Alice Ardelean

3-2-0 · 5 UFC fights · #25 division

86%

Elo 1475
6

Amanda Ribas

7-6-0 · 13 UFC fights · #20 division

82%

Elo 1496
7

Piera Rodriguez

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #7 division

82%

Elo 1556
8

Mizuki

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #19 division

81%

Elo 1509
9

Rayanne Dos Santos

0-3-0 · 3 UFC fights · #44 division

80%

Elo 1390
10

Stephanie Luciano

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #23 division

78%

Elo 1479
11

Loopy Godinez

9-6-0 · 15 UFC fights · #16 division

77%

Elo 1524
12

Jessica Andrade

17-13-0 · 30 UFC fights · #17 division

75%

Elo 1521
13

Karolina Kowalkiewicz

9-10-0 · 19 UFC fights · #32 division

75%

Elo 1444
14

Virna Jandiroba

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #4 division

73%

Elo 1569
15

Angela Hill

14-16-0 · 30 UFC fights · #27 division

73%

Elo 1468
16

Luana Pinheiro

2-4-0 · 6 UFC fights · #39 division

71%

Elo 1415
17

Michelle Waterson-Gomez

6-9-0 · 15 UFC fights · #30 division

70%

Elo 1456
18

Loma Lookboonmee

7-4-0 · 11 UFC fights · #22 division

70%

Elo 1488
19

Iasmin Lucindo

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #9 division

69%

Elo 1547
20

Cory McKenna

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #31 division

67%

Elo 1447
21

Denise Gomes

6-2-0 · 8 UFC fights · #10 division

66%

Elo 1542
22

Tabatha Ricci

7-4-0 · 11 UFC fights · #12 division

65%

Elo 1538
23

Yan Xiaonan

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #6 division

65%

Elo 1558
24

Sam Hughes

6-6-0 · 12 UFC fights · #24 division

63%

Elo 1475
25

Amanda Lemos

9-6-0 · 15 UFC fights · #13 division

63%

Elo 1536

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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.