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 8.77 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 →

1

Myktybek Orolbai

5-1-0 · 6 UFC fights · #23 division

8.77

Elo 1578
2

Themba Gorimbo

4-4-0 · 8 UFC fights · #48 division

4.52

Elo 1488
3

Jacobe Smith

3-0-0 · 3 UFC fights · #25 division

4.52

Elo 1567
4

Rinat Fakhretdinov

6-0-1 · 7 UFC fights · #9 division

3.91

Elo 1625
5

Colby Covington

12-5-0 · 17 UFC fights · #15 division

3.64

Elo 1597
6

Sean Brady

9-2-0 · 11 UFC fights · #6 division

3.58

Elo 1645
7

Preston Parsons

2-4-0 · 6 UFC fights · #67 division

3.46

Elo 1424
8

Michael Chiesa

15-7-0 · 22 UFC fights · #13 division

3.11

Elo 1616
9

Islam Makhachev C

17-1-0 · 18 UFC fights · #1 division

3.10

Elo 1802
10

Jeremiah Wells

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #35 division

3.06

Elo 1539
11

Ange Loosa

2-3-0 · 5 UFC fights · #69 division

3.04

Elo 1420
12

Gilbert Urbina

1-3-0 · 4 UFC fights · #72 division

2.86

Elo 1399
13

Kamaru Usman

16-3-0 · 19 UFC fights · #2 division

2.79

Elo 1691
14

Gabriel Bonfim

7-1-0 · 8 UFC fights · #10 division

2.52

Elo 1623
15

Bassil Hafez

1-2-0 · 3 UFC fights · #65 division

2.21

Elo 1443
16

Neil Magny

24-13-0 · 37 UFC fights · #22 division

2.17

Elo 1579
17

Gilbert Burns

15-10-0 · 25 UFC fights · #27 division

2.04

Elo 1560
18

Belal Muhammad

15-6-0 · 21 UFC fights · #12 division

2.02

Elo 1618
19

Gunnar Nelson

10-6-0 · 16 UFC fights · #30 division

2.00

Elo 1552
20

Ramiz Brahimaj

5-4-0 · 9 UFC fights · #52 division

1.99

Elo 1474
21

Charles Radtke

5-2-0 · 7 UFC fights · #44 division

1.99

Elo 1515
22

Rafael Dos Anjos

21-15-0 · 36 UFC fights · #26 division

1.95

Elo 1561
23

Punahele Soriano

7-4-0 · 11 UFC fights · #45 division

1.83

Elo 1510
24

Court McGee

11-13-0 · 24 UFC fights · #64 division

1.78

Elo 1446
25

Adam Fugitt

2-4-0 · 6 UFC fights · #71 division

1.63

Elo 1410

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Strikes Landed per Minute Striking Accuracy Lowest Strikes Absorbed Striking Defense Takedown Accuracy Takedown Defense Submission Attempts per 15 Min Knockdowns per 15 Minutes Control Time per 15 Minutes

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.