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 29, 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	Alessio Sakara	5.8	25.7	6
2	Anton Turkalj	5.6	45.8	5
3	Andres Ramos	4.9	55.5	7
4	Gadzhimurad Antigulov	4.5	26.5	7
5	Patrick Cummins	4.5	116.8	13
6	Corey Anderson	4.4	186.7	15
7	Jimmy Crute	4.4	81.9	13
8	Misha Cirkunov	4.1	40.0	11
9	Ion Cuțelaba	4.0	168.0	21
10	Jordan Johnson	3.6	75.0	6
11	Chris Honeycutt	3.4	65.5	5
12	Ryan Bader	3.4	202.4	19
13	Vitor Petrino	3.2	74.1	7
14	Oumar Sy	3.2	61.4	7
15	Randy Couture	3.1	100.1	10
16	Rashad Evans	3.1	243.6	20
17	Matt Hamill	3.0	154.9	15
18	Tom Lawlor	3.0	55.2	5
19	James Te Huna	3.0	55.4	9
20	Marthin Hamlet	2.9	36.5	5
21	Phil Davis	2.8	167.3	12
22	Renato Sobral	2.7	65.7	9
23	Jorick Montagnac	2.7	88.8	9
24	Kyle Kingsbury	2.6	102.2	9
25	Tito Ortiz	2.6	273.9	23
26	Karlos Vemola	2.6	97.9	9
27	Edil Esengulov	2.6	57.7	5
28	Will Fleury	2.5	53.1	5
29	Jason Brilz	2.4	69.5	7
30	Tomislav Spahović	2.3	51.3	5
31	Vladimir Matyushenko	2.3	77.6	9
32	Anthony Perosh	2.3	38.9	9
33	Vinny Magalhaes	2.3	52.6	10
34	Francimar Barroso	2.3	113.2	8
35	Nikita Krylov	2.2	141.7	19
36	Devin Clark	2.1	175.5	15
37	Bruno Lopes	2.0	44.0	6
38	Glover Teixeira	2.0	265.1	23
39	Eric Schafer	2.0	53.1	7
40	Vinicius Moreira	2.0	22.9	5
41	Pavol Langer	2.0	99.9	11
42	Mateusz Strzelczyk	1.9	30.9	6
43	Daniel Cormier	1.9	108.5	8
44	Antonio Carlos Junior	1.9	62.3	6
45	Jon Jones	1.9	327.2	21
46	Mohamed Said Maalem	1.9	63.3	5
47	Ilir Latifi	1.9	89.0	12
48	Paul Craig	1.7	120.8	16
49	Evan Tanner	1.7	26.2	5
50	William Knight	1.7	80.9	7
51	Stephan Bonnar	1.6	158.4	14
52	Da Woon Jung	1.6	94.2	9
53	Jason Lambert	1.6	38.2	7
54	Alexander Gustafsson	1.5	184.0	17
55	Mauricio Rua	1.5	264.8	24
56	Rafael Xavier	1.5	60.9	7
57	Houston Alexander	1.5	10.3	5
58	Attila Végh	1.3	67.4	6
59	Anderson Goncalves	1.3	57.7	7
60	Anthony Johnson	1.3	46.4	8
61	Cyrille Diabate	1.3	58.5	8
62	Impa Kasanganay	1.3	95.5	11
63	Bozigit Ataev	1.3	35.9	8
64	Emiliano Sordi	1.2	49.5	10
65	Diyar Nurgozhay	1.2	37.8	5
66	Ryan Spann	1.2	76.1	14
67	Sam Hoger	1.1	67.1	5
68	Jakob Nedoh	1.1	54.0	7
69	Dan Henderson	1.1	121.7	8
70	Wilson Gouveia	1.1	41.0	6
71	Lyoto Machida	1.1	178.9	15
72	Maxim Grishin	1.0	71.5	8
73	Rodolfo Bellato	1.0	72.2	7
74	Vladimir Vasilyev	1.0	86.7	6
75	Tim Boetsch	1.0	57.9	7
76	Nicolae Negumereanu	1.0	58.6	6
77	Igor Pokrajac	1.0	106.0	12
78	Joshua Silveira	1.0	122.5	9
79	Miloš Petrášek	1.0	77.0	8
80	Jan Blachowicz	1.0	294.9	23
81	Brandon Vera	0.9	112.3	9
82	Ovince Saint Preux	0.9	235.1	26
83	Alexander Poppeck	0.9	84.2	7
84	Navajo Stirling	0.8	72.8	7
85	Thiago Santos	0.8	165.7	10
86	Iwo Baraniewski	0.8	18.7	5
87	Magomed Ankalaev	0.8	208.4	16
88	Ivan Erslan	0.8	57.0	7
89	Ike Villanueva	0.8	19.3	5
90	Tyson Pedro	0.8	79.0	11
91	Forrest Griffin	0.8	158.3	14
92	Vitor Belfort	0.7	64.1	7
93	Ruslan Shamilov	0.7	65.0	6
94	Azamat Murzakanov	0.7	66.3	8
95	Rafal Haratyk	0.7	66.9	5
96	Brendson Ribeiro	0.7	68.0	9
97	Aleksandar Rakic	0.6	117.5	11
98	Kennedy Nzechukwu	0.6	125.0	13
99	Omari Akhmedov	0.6	50.8	5
100	Ed Herman	0.6	102.9	9

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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