Most Takedowns Landed Per Minute

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About Most Takedowns Landed Per Minute

Takedowns landed per minute of octagon time - minimum 5 fights and 35 minutes of cage time

This leaderboard ranks UFC fighters by grappling pace: takedowns landed per minute of octagon time. Rather than counting career totals, which simply reward whoever has fought longest, we sum every takedown a fighter has landed and every second they have actually spent in a live fight, then divide one by the other. Fighters qualify with at least five scored fights and 35 minutes of recorded cage time, a double floor that stops a run of quick finishes from producing an impossible number.

How the per-minute normalisation works

Fight time is calculated from the round and clock time at which each bout ended, so a fight stopped at 2:30 of round two counts as seven and a half minutes, not ten. Those seconds are added across a fighter's whole career and the takedowns are added the same way, and only then is the division performed. Summing first matters: averaging each fight's individual rate and then averaging those averages would let a ninety-second sprint count as heavily as a twenty-five-minute title fight. Both halves of the ratio also come from the same set of scored bouts, so a fighter is never credited with takedowns from fights whose time was not counted.

The names at the top are a different population from our most takedowns board. That page belongs to the long careers — the fighters with the most cage time to accumulate in. This one belongs to the fighters who never stop shooting, and it surfaces short-career wrestlers alongside the household names. A rate above roughly a third of a takedown per minute is elite; the very top of the board passes half, a takedown every two minutes or less for as long as the fight lasts.

Read this as the volume half of a grappling profile: pair it with takedown accuracy for how efficiently those attempts convert, takedown defense for the other side of the exchange, and control time for what the takedowns actually produced. The striking equivalent is significant strikes landed per minute. The rest of the collection is on the UFC statistics hub.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does takedowns per minute mean?

It is how many takedowns a fighter lands for every minute they are actually fighting. We total a fighter's career takedowns landed, total the real seconds they have spent in a live fight, and divide. A fighter at 0.40 lands a takedown roughly every two and a half minutes, which is about six across a full three-round fight. It is the grappling twin of our strikes landed per minute board.

How does this compare with the UFC's takedown average?

Multiply by 15. The UFC publishes takedown average (TD Avg) as takedowns landed per 15 minutes of fight time, and this board uses the same numerator and denominator per single minute, so a fighter at 0.40 here has a TD Avg of 6.0. Small differences from the official figure come from rounding and from which bouts carry round-by-round statistics.

Why measure the rate instead of career takedowns?

Because raw totals reward longevity. A veteran of twenty decisions will out-land a seven-fight wrestler on volume even if the wrestler shoots twice as often, and our most takedowns board is topped by exactly those long careers. Dividing by octagon time removes career length from the question and leaves only how relentlessly a fighter is actually hunting the takedown while the fight is live.

Why are there two minimums instead of one?

Because a fight-count floor alone is not enough for a pace stat. A fighter with five first-round finishes might have only eight minutes of recorded cage time, and three takedowns across those eight minutes projects to a rate nobody could sustain. Requiring 35 minutes of octagon time as well as five scored fights means every figure here has been held over well over two full fights' worth of action.

Does a high takedown rate mean a fighter is dominant?

Not on its own. This counts takedowns landed, not what happens afterwards — a fighter who scores a takedown and is immediately stood up rates the same as one who takes a back and holds it. It also says nothing about how many attempts it took. Read it next to takedown accuracy for efficiency and control time for what the takedown actually bought.

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