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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 (5.04) .

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 #14
    5.39
  3. 3
    Curtis Blaydes
    15-6-0 22 fights #5
    5.04
  4. 4
    Mario Pinto
    4-0-0 4 fights #8
    4.62
  5. 5
    Louie Sutherland
    1-3-0 4 fights #45
    4.49
  6. 6
    Alexandr Romanov
    7-3-0 10 fights #15
    4.49
  7. 7
    Serghei Spivac
    9-7-0 16 fights #20
    3.42
  8. 8
    Hamdy Abdelwahab
    2-1-0 4 fights #30
    3.25
  9. 9
    Vitor Petrino
    8-2-0 10 fights #11
    3.00
  10. 10
    Tallison Teixeira
    2-2-0 4 fights #31
    2.68
  11. 11
    Tom Aspinall C
    8-1-0 10 fights #2
    2.62
  12. 12
    Thomas Petersen
    3-4-0 7 fights #39
    2.59
  13. 13
    Marcus Buchecha
    0-2-1 3 fights #40
    2.02
  14. 14
    Josh Hokit
    4-0-0 4 fights #7
    1.50
  15. 15
    Jamal Pogues
    2-2-0 4 fights #35
    1.25
  16. 16
    Marcin Tybura
    14-11-0 25 fights #24
    1.23
  17. 17
    Ryan Spann
    10-7-0 17 fights #21
    1.15
  18. 18
    Shamil Gaziev
    4-3-0 7 fights #26
    1.08
  19. 19
    Rodrigo Nascimento
    4-3-0 8 fights #25
    1.06
  20. 20
    Sean Sharaf
    1-2-0 3 fights #41
    0.92
  21. 21
    Mick Parkin
    4-2-0 6 fights #22
    0.90
  22. 22
    Don'Tale Mayes
    4-7-0 12 fights #44
    0.70
  23. 23
    Robelis Despaigne
    2-2-0 4 fights #36
    0.66
  24. 24
    Ciryl Gane IC
    11-2-0 14 fights #1
    0.66
  25. 25
    Alexander Volkov
    14-5-0 19 fights #3
    0.61
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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.