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Heavyweight · 2026

Best Heavyweight Takedowns per 15 Minutes

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

Jailton Almeida leads the heavyweight TD / 15 min board at 5.57 takedowns / 15 min , followed by Valter Walker (5.39) and Curtis Blaydes (5.12) .

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

Takedowns per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Jailton Almeida
    8-3-0 11 fights #9
    5.57
  2. 2
    Valter Walker
    5-1-0 6 fights #13
    5.39
  3. 3
    Curtis Blaydes
    14-6-0 21 fights #7
    5.12
  4. 4
    Louie Sutherland
    1-3-0 4 fights #43
    4.49
  5. 5
    Alexandr Romanov
    7-3-0 10 fights #14
    4.49
  6. 6
    Serghei Spivac
    9-6-0 15 fights #18
    3.82
  7. 7
    Hamdy Abdelwahab
    2-1-0 4 fights #28
    3.25
  8. 8
    Vitor Petrino
    7-2-0 9 fights #16
    2.84
  9. 9
    Tallison Teixeira
    2-2-0 4 fights #31
    2.68
  10. 10
    Tom Aspinall C
    8-1-0 10 fights #2
    2.62
  11. 11
    Thomas Petersen
    3-4-0 7 fights #37
    2.59
  12. 12
    Mario Pinto
    3-0-0 3 fights #12
    2.52
  13. 13
    Marcus Buchecha
    0-2-1 3 fights #38
    2.02
  14. 14
    Josh Hokit
    4-0-0 4 fights #6
    1.50
  15. 15
    Jamal Pogues
    2-2-0 4 fights #34
    1.25
  16. 16
    Marcin Tybura
    14-11-0 25 fights #23
    1.23
  17. 17
    Ryan Spann
    10-6-0 16 fights #20
    1.22
  18. 18
    Shamil Gaziev
    3-3-0 6 fights #30
    1.11
  19. 19
    Rodrigo Nascimento
    4-3-0 8 fights #24
    1.06
  20. 20
    Mick Parkin
    4-1-0 5 fights #19
    0.95
  21. 21
    Don'Tale Mayes
    4-7-0 12 fights #42
    0.70
  22. 22
    Ciryl Gane IC
    11-2-0 14 fights #1
    0.66
  23. 23
    Alexander Volkov
    14-5-0 19 fights #3
    0.61
  24. 24
    Aleksandar Rakic
    7-5-0 12 fights #21
    0.57
  25. 25
    Kennedy Nzechukwu
    8-6-1 15 fights #25
    0.56
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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.