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Bantamweight · 2026

Best Bantamweight Takedowns per 15 Minutes

Wrestlers — most takedowns landed per 15 minutes of cage time.

Merab Dvalishvili leads the bantamweight TD / 15 min board at 5.97 takedowns / 15 min , followed by Raul Rosas Jr. (5.34) and Rafael Estevam (5.02) .

Top 25 active bantamweight fighters by career-window TD / 15 min. · See full bantamweight Elo rankings →

Takedowns per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Merab Dvalishvili
    14-3-0 17 fights #1
    5.97
  2. 2
    Raul Rosas Jr.
    7-1-0 8 fights #11
    5.34
  3. 3
    Rafael Estevam
    3-1-0 4 fights #38
    5.02
  4. 4
    Brady Hiestand
    4-1-0 5 fights #23
    4.13
  5. 5
    Cristian Quinonez
    2-2-0 4 fights #52
    4.12
  6. 6
    Umar Nurmagomedov
    8-2-0 10 fights #7
    3.94
  7. 7
    Suyoung You
    4-1-0 5 fights #28
    3.90
  8. 8
    Ricky Simon
    10-7-1 18 fights #29
    3.83
  9. 9
    Farid Basharat
    7-0-0 7 fights #4
    3.66
  10. 10
    Nathan Fletcher
    1-2-0 3 fights #60
    3.37
  11. 11
    Jean Matsumoto
    4-2-0 6 fights #30
    3.35
  12. 12
    Bryce Mitchell
    10-3-0 13 fights #9
    3.12
  13. 13
    Caolan Loughran
    2-2-0 4 fights #51
    3.00
  14. 14
    Quang Le
    1-3-0 4 fights #63
    2.90
  15. 15
    Raoni Barcelos
    11-5-0 16 fights #13
    2.88
  16. 16
    Kyler Phillips
    6-4-0 10 fights #33
    2.84
  17. 17
    Luan Lacerda
    1-3-0 4 fights #64
    2.82
  18. 18
    Changho Lee
    2-1-0 3 fights #49
    2.71
  19. 19
    Montel Jackson
    10-4-0 14 fights #14
    2.50
  20. 20
    Mario Bautista
    12-3-0 15 fights #6
    2.49
  21. 21
    Benardo Sopaj
    2-1-0 3 fights #45
    2.43
  22. 22
    Jafel Filho
    3-3-0 6 fights #46
    2.36
  23. 23
    Santiago Luna
    2-1-0 3 fights #43
    2.30
  24. 24
    Timmy Cuamba
    3-3-0 6 fights #54
    2.17
  25. 25
    Cody Stamann
    7-7-1 15 fights #42
    2.17
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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 Oct 17, 2026.