Best takedown defence

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The all-time top 100, ranked across every MMA promotion we track and rebuilt from every completed fight in our database.

Updated November 5, 2026

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#	Fighter
1	Gleison Tibau	92.0%	75	27
2	Rafael Fiziev	90.4%	52	13
3	Donald Cerrone	90.0%	50	23
4	Nasrat Haqparast	84.9%	53	16
5	BJ Penn	83.5%	103	16
6	Gray Maynard	83.3%	54	16
7	Michael Johnson	82.9%	82	27
8	Beneil Dariush	82.7%	52	26
9	Edson Barboza	81.3%	80	25
10	Evan Dunham	80.8%	73	20
11	Ludovit Klein	80.0%	50	12
12	Dan Hooker	78.7%	61	18
13	Sam Stout	77.9%	131	19
14	Din Thomas	76.7%	60	9
15	Gauge Young	75.9%	54	5
16	Jens Pulver	74.6%	71	9
17	Al Iaquinta	74.5%	51	14
18	Ross Pearson	72.6%	62	21
19	Yves Edwards	71.4%	84	19
20	King Green	71.0%	69	29
21	Clay Guida	70.9%	55	30
22	Farès Ziam	70.8%	72	12
23	Joaquim Silva	70.6%	68	12
24	Scott Holtzman	67.4%	92	13
25	Tony Ferguson	67.2%	58	21
26	Esteban Ribovics	66.7%	57	10
27	Paul Felder	66.2%	71	14
28	Benson Henderson	65.8%	73	12
29	Melvin Guillard	65.5%	87	19
30	Dustin Poirier	63.6%	66	20
31	Spencer Fisher	62.9%	89	15
32	Kenny Florian	62.0%	50	12
33	Frankie Edgar	61.4%	57	13
34	Rafael Dos Anjos	61.3%	80	25
35	Drew Dober	61.0%	59	24
36	Francisco Trinaldo	59.4%	64	21
37	Diego Ferreira	58.2%	79	18
38	Tyson Griffin	55.6%	72	12
39	Trevor Peek	54.9%	51	6
40	Anthony Pettis	54.9%	82	19
41	Anthony Njokuani	53.2%	62	8
42	Jim Miller	49.0%	98	43
43	Jeremy Stephens	47.9%	73	21
44	Viacheslav Borshchev	43.8%	64	11
45	Clay Collard	43.1%	51	14
46	Nik Lentz	43.1%	58	16
47	Nate Diaz	43.1%	65	16
48	Abel Trujillo	42.3%	52	10
49	Hermes Franca	36.8%	68	10

Ranked across every MMA promotion we track. BKFC is bare-knuckle boxing — two-minute rounds, and a punch count that is not a significant-strike count — so it is ranked only on its own boards.

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Unofficial statistics compiled by UFCalendar from every completed fight in our database. Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics and rate boards at least 50 attempts; BKFC is ranked only on its own boards.

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