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Welterweight · 2026

Best Welterweight Takedowns per 15 Minutes

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

Myktybek Orolbai leads the welterweight TD / 15 min board at 8.22 takedowns / 15 min , followed by Themba Gorimbo (4.52) and Jacobe Smith (4.52) .

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

Takedowns per 15 Minutes in all divisions →
  1. 1
    Myktybek Orolbai
    5-2-0 7 fights #30
    8.22
  2. 2
    Themba Gorimbo
    4-4-0 8 fights #50
    4.52
  3. 3
    Jacobe Smith
    3-0-0 3 fights #24
    4.52
  4. 4
    Rinat Fakhretdinov
    6-0-1 7 fights #9
    3.91
  5. 5
    Colby Covington
    12-5-0 17 fights #16
    3.64
  6. 6
    Sean Brady
    9-2-0 11 fights #6
    3.58
  7. 7
    Preston Parsons
    2-4-0 6 fights #70
    3.46
  8. 8
    Seokhyeon Ko
    2-1-0 3 fights #53
    3.33
  9. 9
    Islam Makhachev C
    18-1-0 19 fights #1
    3.22
  10. 10
    Michael Chiesa
    15-7-0 22 fights #14
    3.11
  11. 11
    Jeremiah Wells
    6-2-0 8 fights #26
    2.81
  12. 12
    Ange Loosa
    2-3-0 6 fights #71
    2.81
  13. 13
    Gabriel Bonfim
    7-1-0 8 fights #10
    2.52
  14. 14
    Bassil Hafez
    1-2-0 3 fights #67
    2.21
  15. 15
    Neil Magny
    25-13-0 38 fights #17
    2.13
  16. 16
    Gilbert Burns
    15-10-0 25 fights #27
    2.04
  17. 17
    Gunnar Nelson
    10-6-0 16 fights #35
    2.00
  18. 18
    Charles Radtke
    5-2-0 7 fights #46
    1.99
  19. 19
    Belal Muhammad
    15-6-0 22 fights #12
    1.98
  20. 20
    Ramiz Brahimaj
    5-5-0 10 fights #61
    1.97
  21. 21
    Rafael Dos Anjos
    21-15-0 36 fights #28
    1.95
  22. 22
    Punahele Soriano
    7-4-0 11 fights #47
    1.83
  23. 23
    Court McGee
    11-13-0 24 fights #66
    1.78
  24. 24
    Adam Fugitt
    2-4-0 6 fights #73
    1.63
  25. 25
    Mike Malott
    7-1-0 8 fights #15
    1.57
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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.