Takedowns per 15 minutes

Name: Takedowns per 15 minutes
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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 September 27, 2026

A fighter with a bout in the last 18 months. Country boards rank every fighter from that country and cannot be combined with the active filter.

#	Fighter	Takedowns per 15 minutes	Minutes	Bouts
1	Jake O'Brien	6.7	47.2	5
2	Valter Walker	5.4	25.1	6
3	Martin Batur	4.7	19.1	6
4	Oleg Popov	4.7	96.7	7
5	Cain Velasquez	4.6	111.0	15
6	Curtis Blaydes	4.6	202.5	21
7	Jailton Almeida	4.5	99.2	10
8	Rasul Magomedov	4.4	50.9	5
9	Cyril Asker	4.4	17.0	5
10	Mario Pinto	4.4	37.5	5
11	Mike Russow	4.2	63.9	6
12	Mukhumat Vakhaev	4.2	46.6	5
13	Antonio Carlos Junior	3.9	50.1	5
14	Viktor Pesta	3.7	72.3	9
15	Josh Hokit	3.7	36.2	5
16	Brock Lesnar	3.6	45.4	7
17	Marthin Hamlet	3.6	49.5	5
18	Alexander Romanov	3.6	121.9	13
19	Kevin Randleman	3.5	85.2	5
20	Serghei Spivac	3.4	140.5	16
21	Tom Aspinall	3.3	18.4	9
22	Ricco Rodriguez	3.1	83.1	7
23	Patrick Vespaziani	3.1	34.3	6
24	Jared Rosholt	3.0	163.9	16
25	Hatef Moeil	3.0	114.3	7
26	Szymon Bajor	3.0	75.6	6
27	Vitor Belfort	3.0	15.2	5
28	Francimar Barroso	3.0	35.6	5
29	Thomas Petersen	2.9	81.4	8
30	Sulim Batalov	2.9	51.7	6
31	Stuart Austin	2.7	43.8	5
32	Denis Goltsov	2.7	117.1	19
33	Karl Williams	2.7	123.0	9
34	Randy Couture	2.6	170.5	13
35	Anthony Hamilton	2.6	62.9	10
36	Gabriel Gonzaga	2.6	137.6	22
37	Arash Sadeghi	2.6	57.5	5
38	Louie Sutherland	2.6	35.0	5
39	Arbi Agujev	2.6	76.0	6
40	Abraham Bably	2.5	47.9	6
41	Luis Henrique	2.5	72.8	6
42	Miha Frlic	2.5	24.5	6
43	Brendan Schaub	2.4	73.9	10
44	Tallison Teixeira	2.4	18.8	5
45	Phil De Fries	2.4	88.6	11
46	Amir Aliakbari	2.4	38.1	5
47	Soa Palelei	2.3	60.0	7
48	Cheick Kongo	2.2	163.4	18
49	Frank Mir	2.0	155.7	27
50	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	2.0	83.1	12
51	David Abbott	1.9	30.8	8
52	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	1.9	54.0	7
53	Juan Adams	1.9	46.7	6
54	Aleksei Oleinik	1.8	115.7	17
55	Štefan Vojčák	1.8	66.3	8
56	Stipe Miocic	1.7	215.7	19
57	Tim Hague	1.7	34.8	5
58	Muhammed DeReese	1.7	35.9	8
59	Shawn Jordan	1.6	91.0	11
60	Dave Herman	1.6	27.8	5
61	Daniel Cormier	1.6	85.9	6
62	Arkadiusz Wrzosek	1.6	19.4	7
63	Junior Albini	1.5	29.1	5
64	Austen Lane	1.5	38.9	7
65	Klidson Abreu	1.5	69.2	7
66	Jeff Monson	1.5	70.3	6
67	Mick Parkin	1.4	65.3	6
68	Jon Madsen	1.3	56.8	5
69	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	1.3	93.3	11
70	Parker Porter	1.3	58.7	8
71	Marek Samociuk	1.3	95.0	8
72	Elmar Gasanov	1.2	84.1	5
73	Ruslan Gabaraev	1.2	60.3	5
74	Fabricio Werdum	1.2	193.4	18
75	Marcin Tybura	1.2	279.4	25
76	Travis Browne	1.2	136.5	17
77	Ante Delija	1.2	112.8	15
78	Mike Kyle	1.2	12.8	5
79	Michal Martínek	1.2	89.4	12
80	Rob Wilkinson	1.2	38.9	7
81	Andre Miranda	1.1	39.2	5
82	Tony Johnson Jr.	1.1	105.4	6
83	Roy Nelson	1.1	198.8	18
84	Eddie Sanchez	1.1	53.0	6
85	Artem Dushenko	1.1	26.9	5
86	Adam Pałasz	1.1	55.4	8
87	Kelvin Tiller	1.0	42.9	6
88	Shane Carwin	1.0	29.5	6
89	Evgeny Erokhin	1.0	59.3	5
90	Shamil Abdurakhimov	1.0	104.0	11
T-91	Heath Herring	1.0	75.0	5
T-91	Jamal Pogues	1.0	75.0	5
93	Timothy Johnson	1.0	90.3	10
94	Ian Freeman	1.0	46.3	6
95	Justin Willis	1.0	62.6	5
96	Shamil Gaziev	0.9	64.4	9
97	Bruno Cappelozza	0.9	66.3	8
98	Francis Ngannou	0.9	101.7	15
99	Josh Parisian	0.9	86.1	10
100	Daniel Dittrich	0.8	36.3	7

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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