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 24, 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	Josh Hokit	3.7	36.2	5
14	Brock Lesnar	3.6	45.4	7
15	Alexander Romanov	3.6	121.9	13
16	Kevin Randleman	3.5	85.2	5
17	Viktor Pesta	3.5	69.3	8
18	Serghei Spivac	3.4	140.5	16
19	Tom Aspinall	3.3	18.4	9
20	Ricco Rodriguez	3.1	83.1	7
21	Patrick Vespaziani	3.1	34.3	6
22	Jared Rosholt	3.0	163.9	16
23	Hatef Moeil	3.0	114.3	7
24	Szymon Bajor	3.0	75.6	6
25	Vitor Belfort	3.0	15.2	5
26	Francimar Barroso	3.0	35.6	5
27	Thomas Petersen	2.9	81.4	8
28	Sulim Batalov	2.9	51.7	6
29	Stuart Austin	2.7	43.8	5
30	Karl Williams	2.7	123.0	9
31	Randy Couture	2.6	170.5	13
32	Anthony Hamilton	2.6	62.9	10
33	Gabriel Gonzaga	2.6	137.6	22
34	Arash Sadeghi	2.6	57.5	5
35	Denis Goltsov	2.6	115.0	18
36	Louie Sutherland	2.6	35.0	5
37	Arbi Agujev	2.6	76.0	6
38	Abraham Bably	2.5	47.9	6
39	Juan Adams	2.5	54.2	7
40	Luis Henrique	2.5	72.8	6
41	Miha Frlic	2.5	24.5	6
42	Brendan Schaub	2.4	73.9	10
43	Tallison Teixeira	2.4	18.8	5
44	Phil De Fries	2.4	88.6	11
45	Amir Aliakbari	2.4	38.1	5
46	Soa Palelei	2.3	60.0	7
47	Cheick Kongo	2.2	163.4	18
48	Frank Mir	2.0	155.7	27
49	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	2.0	83.1	12
50	David Abbott	1.9	30.8	8
51	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	1.9	54.0	7
52	Aleksei Oleinik	1.8	115.7	17
53	Štefan Vojčák	1.8	66.3	8
54	Stipe Miocic	1.7	215.7	19
55	Tim Hague	1.7	34.8	5
56	Muhammed DeReese	1.7	35.9	8
57	Shawn Jordan	1.6	91.0	11
58	Dave Herman	1.6	27.8	5
59	Daniel Cormier	1.6	85.9	6
60	Arkadiusz Wrzosek	1.6	19.4	7
61	Junior Albini	1.5	29.1	5
62	Austen Lane	1.5	38.9	7
63	Klidson Abreu	1.5	69.2	7
64	Jeff Monson	1.5	70.3	6
65	Mick Parkin	1.4	65.3	6
66	Jon Madsen	1.3	56.8	5
67	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	1.3	93.3	11
68	Parker Porter	1.3	58.7	8
69	Marek Samociuk	1.3	95.0	8
70	Elmar Gasanov	1.2	84.1	5
71	Ruslan Gabaraev	1.2	60.3	5
72	Fabricio Werdum	1.2	193.4	18
73	Marcin Tybura	1.2	279.4	25
74	Travis Browne	1.2	136.5	17
75	Ante Delija	1.2	112.8	15
76	Mike Kyle	1.2	12.8	5
77	Michal Martínek	1.2	89.4	12
78	Andre Miranda	1.1	39.2	5
79	Tony Johnson Jr.	1.1	105.4	6
80	Roy Nelson	1.1	198.8	18
81	Eddie Sanchez	1.1	53.0	6
82	Artem Dushenko	1.1	26.9	5
83	Adam Pałasz	1.1	55.4	8
84	Kelvin Tiller	1.0	42.9	6
85	Shane Carwin	1.0	29.5	6
86	Evgeny Erokhin	1.0	59.3	5
87	Shamil Abdurakhimov	1.0	104.0	11
T-88	Heath Herring	1.0	75.0	5
T-88	Jamal Pogues	1.0	75.0	5
90	Ian Freeman	1.0	46.3	6
91	Timothy Johnson	1.0	93.5	11
92	Justin Willis	1.0	62.6	5
93	Shamil Gaziev	0.9	64.4	9
94	Bruno Cappelozza	0.9	66.3	8
95	Francis Ngannou	0.9	101.7	15
96	Josh Parisian	0.9	86.1	10
97	Daniel Dittrich	0.8	36.3	7
98	Alistair Overeem	0.8	184.8	20
99	Ben Rothwell	0.8	170.7	17
100	Rizvan Kuniev	0.8	57.2	5

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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