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Middleweight · 2026

Best Middleweight Takedowns per 15 Minutes

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

Jacob Malkoun leads the middleweight TD / 15 min board at 5.39 takedowns / 15 min , followed by Khamzat Chimaev (5.32) and Anthony Hernandez (5.09) .

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

Takedowns per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Jacob Malkoun
    6-3-0 9 fights #34
    5.39
  2. 2
    Khamzat Chimaev
    9-1-0 10 fights #2
    5.32
  3. 3
    Anthony Hernandez
    9-4-0 13 fights #14
    5.09
  4. 4
    Andre Muniz
    6-4-0 10 fights #33
    4.22
  5. 5
    Ikram Aliskerov
    5-1-0 6 fights #11
    3.66
  6. 6
    Azamat Bekoev
    2-2-0 4 fights #54
    3.48
  7. 7
    Chris Weidman
    12-8-0 20 fights #23
    3.27
  8. 8
    Andre Petroski
    8-5-0 13 fights #37
    3.13
  9. 9
    Zach Reese
    4-4-0 9 fights #48
    2.80
  10. 10
    Rodolfo Vieira
    7-5-0 12 fights #41
    2.77
  11. 11
    Gilbert Urbina
    2-3-0 5 fights #55
    2.73
  12. 12
    Kamaru Usman
    16-4-0 20 fights #3
    2.60
  13. 13
    Abus Magomedov
    5-3-0 8 fights #32
    2.50
  14. 14
    Dusko Todorovic
    4-7-0 11 fights #70
    2.44
  15. 15
    Bo Nickal
    6-1-0 7 fights #16
    2.35
  16. 16
    Baisangur Susurkaev
    3-0-0 3 fights #20
    2.28
  17. 17
    Dustin Stoltzfus
    4-7-0 11 fights #63
    2.12
  18. 18
    Kyle Daukaus
    4-6-0 11 fights #56
    2.05
  19. 19
    Mansur Abdul-Malik
    3-2-0 6 fights #50
    1.96
  20. 20
    Donte Johnson
    3-0-0 3 fights #24
    1.95
  21. 21
    Dricus Du Plessis
    10-1-0 11 fights #1
    1.90
  22. 22
    Dylan Budka
    0-3-0 3 fights #66
    1.89
  23. 23
    Eryk Anders
    10-9-0 20 fights #40
    1.83
  24. 24
    Cody Brundage
    6-8-0 16 fights #57
    1.71
  25. 25
    Ismail Naurdiev
    5-3-0 8 fights #36
    1.69
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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.