Middleweight · 2026

Best Middleweight Takedowns per 15 Minutes

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

Anthony Hernandez leads the middleweight TD / 15 min board at 5.91 takedowns / 15 min , followed by Jacob Malkoun (5.47) and Khamzat Chimaev (5.32) .

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

1

Anthony Hernandez

9-3-0 · 12 UFC fights · #13 division

5.91

Elo 1602
2

Jacob Malkoun

6-2-0 · 8 UFC fights · #27 division

5.47

Elo 1546
3

Khamzat Chimaev

9-1-0 · 10 UFC fights · #2 division

5.32

Elo 1676
4

Andre Muniz

6-4-0 · 10 UFC fights · #30 division

4.22

Elo 1533
5

Azamat Bekoev

2-2-0 · 4 UFC fights · #53 division

3.48

Elo 1434
6

Chris Weidman

12-8-0 · 20 UFC fights · #18 division

3.27

Elo 1564
7

Andre Petroski

8-5-0 · 13 UFC fights · #34 division

3.13

Elo 1512
8

Zach Reese

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #44 division

2.90

Elo 1473
9

Mansur Abdul-Malik

3-1-0 · 4 UFC fights · #37 division

2.89

Elo 1501
10

Ikram Aliskerov

4-1-0 · 5 UFC fights · #14 division

2.88

Elo 1581
11

Rodolfo Vieira

6-5-0 · 11 UFC fights · #42 division

2.87

Elo 1477
12

Abus Magomedov

4-3-0 · 7 UFC fights · #35 division

2.61

Elo 1511
13

Reinier De Ridder

4-2-0 · 6 UFC fights · #21 division

2.56

Elo 1556
14

Bo Nickal

6-1-0 · 7 UFC fights · #15 division

2.35

Elo 1572
15

Baisangur Susurkaev

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #17 division

2.28

Elo 1565
16

Dricus Du Plessis

9-1-0 · 10 UFC fights · #1 division

2.22

Elo 1690
17

Dusko Todorovic

4-6-0 · 10 UFC fights · #65 division

2.16

Elo 1407
18

Dustin Stoltzfus

3-7-0 · 10 UFC fights · #68 division

2.03

Elo 1392
19

Gregory Rodrigues

10-3-0 · 13 UFC fights · #10 division

1.93

Elo 1603
20

Tresean Gore

3-4-0 · 7 UFC fights · #51 division

1.91

Elo 1439
21

Dylan Budka

0-3-0 · 3 UFC fights · #66 division

1.89

Elo 1405
22

Kyle Daukaus

4-5-0 · 9 UFC fights · #45 division

1.84

Elo 1455
23

Cody Brundage

5-8-0 · 13 UFC fights · #62 division

1.82

Elo 1414
24

Gerald Meerschaert

12-14-0 · 26 UFC fights · #48 division

1.70

Elo 1448
25

Junyong Park

9-4-0 · 13 UFC fights · #28 division

1.69

Elo 1539

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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.