Heavyweight · 2026

Best Heavyweight Takedowns per 15 Minutes

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

Valter Walker leads the heavyweight TD / 15 min board at 5.74 takedowns / 15 min , followed by Jailton Almeida (5.57) and Louie Sutherland (4.95) .

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

1

Valter Walker

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #18 division

5.74

Elo 1545
2

Jailton Almeida

8-3-0 · 11 UFC fights · #9 division

5.57

Elo 1594
3

Louie Sutherland

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #38 division

4.95

Elo 1432
4

Curtis Blaydes

14-6-0 · 20 UFC fights · #7 division

4.64

Elo 1610
5

Karl Williams

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #23 division

4.50

Elo 1495
6

Alexandr Romanov

7-3-0 · 10 UFC fights · #13 division

4.49

Elo 1562
7

Serghei Spivac

9-6-0 · 15 UFC fights · #17 division

3.82

Elo 1546
8

Hamdy Abdelwahab

2-1-0 · 3 UFC fights · #28 division

3.33

Elo 1477
9

Tom Aspinall C

8-1-0 · 9 UFC fights · #4 division

3.27

Elo 1654
10

Vitor Petrino

7-2-0 · 9 UFC fights · #15 division

2.84

Elo 1554
11

Tallison Teixeira

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #30 division

2.68

Elo 1471
12

Thomas Petersen

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #34 division

2.65

Elo 1444
13

Mario Pinto

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #12 division

2.52

Elo 1564
14

Marcus Buchecha

0-2-1 · 3 UFC fights · #37 division

2.02

Elo 1432
15

Josh Hokit

4-0-0 · 4 UFC fights · #6 division

1.50

Elo 1613
16

Marcin Tybura

14-10-0 · 24 UFC fights · #21 division

1.30

Elo 1526
17

Jamal Pogues

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #33 division

1.25

Elo 1444
18

Ryan Spann

10-6-0 · 16 UFC fights · #20 division

1.22

Elo 1532
19

Rodrigo Nascimento

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #22 division

1.14

Elo 1507
20

Shamil Gaziev

3-3-0 · 6 UFC fights · #29 division

1.11

Elo 1475
21

Mick Parkin

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #19 division

0.95

Elo 1542
22

Don'Tale Mayes

4-7-0 · 11 UFC fights · #41 division

0.78

Elo 1407
23

Ciryl Gane IC

11-2-0 · 13 UFC fights · #1 division

0.68

Elo 1691
24

Alexander Volkov

14-5-0 · 19 UFC fights · #2 division

0.61

Elo 1656
25

Kennedy Nzechukwu

8-6-1 · 15 UFC fights · #24 division

0.56

Elo 1494

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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.