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Light Heavyweight · 2026

Best Light Heavyweight Takedowns per 15 Minutes

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

Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev leads the light heavyweight TD / 15 min board at 12.68 takedowns / 15 min , followed by Jimmy Crute (4.64) and Julius Walker (4.07) .

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

Takedowns per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev
    3-0-0 3 fights #12
    12.68
  2. 2
    Jimmy Crute
    6-4-2 12 fights #16
    4.64
  3. 3
    Julius Walker
    1-3-0 4 fights #32
    4.07
  4. 4
    Ion Cutelaba
    9-11-1 21 fights #29
    4.02
  5. 5
    Bruno Lopes
    1-3-0 4 fights #38
    2.91
  6. 6
    Tuco Tokkos
    1-3-0 4 fights #39
    2.78
  7. 7
    Oumar Sy
    3-2-0 5 fights #28
    2.45
  8. 8
    Nikita Krylov
    12-10-0 22 fights #18
    2.19
  9. 9
    Austen Lane
    1-5-0 7 fights #40
    1.74
  10. 10
    Rodolfo Bellato
    2-1-1 5 fights #24
    1.60
  11. 11
    Da Woon Jung
    4-4-1 9 fights #25
    1.59
  12. 12
    Diyar Nurgozhay
    2-2-0 4 fights #30
    1.54
  13. 13
    Jan Blachowicz
    12-9-2 23 fights #9
    0.97
  14. 14
    Navajo Stirling
    6-0-0 6 fights #4
    0.92
  15. 15
    Ovince Saint Preux
    15-13-0 28 fights #26
    0.87
  16. 16
    Magomed Ankalaev
    13-2-1 17 fights #2
    0.85
  17. 17
    Billy Elekana
    3-1-0 4 fights #19
    0.85
  18. 18
    Azamat Murzakanov
    6-1-0 7 fights #5
    0.71
  19. 19
    Robert Whittaker
    18-7-0 25 fights #3
    0.71
  20. 20
    Brendson Ribeiro
    2-6-0 8 fights #36
    0.70
  21. 21
    Carlos Ulberg C
    10-1-0 11 fights #1
    0.54
  22. 22
    Alonzo Menifield
    11-6-1 18 fights #13
    0.50
  23. 23
    Volkan Oezdemir
    9-7-0 16 fights #15
    0.50
  24. 24
    Jiri Prochazka
    6-3-0 9 fights #8
    0.49
  25. 25
    Anthony Smith
    13-12-0 25 fights #21
    0.46
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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.