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    The Record Book

    Most Takedown Attempts in a UFC Round

    The most takedown attempts ever packed into one five-minute round — every shot tried, finished or stuffed, by a single fighter and by both fighters combined.

    50 record performances
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    1
    Merab Dvalishvili
    Merab Dvalishvili vs Petr Yan
    14 TD Attempts Round 3
    2
    Merab Dvalishvili
    Merab Dvalishvili vs Cory Sandhagen
    13 TD Attempts Round 2
    3
    Jailton Almeida
    Jailton Almeida vs Curtis Blaydes
    12 TD Attempts Round 1
    4
    Alatengheili
    Alatengheili vs Ryan Benoit
    12 TD Attempts Round 3
    5
    Merab Dvalishvili
    Merab Dvalishvili vs Umar Nurmagomedov
    12 TD Attempts Round 5
    6
    Phillip Miller vs James Zikic
    12 TD Attempts Round 2
    7
    Stewart Nicoll
    Stewart Nicoll vs Lucas Rocha
    12 TD Attempts Round 1
    8
    Victor Altamirano
    Victor Altamirano vs Vinicius Salvador
    12 TD Attempts Round 3
    9
    Gregor Gillespie
    Gregor Gillespie vs Glaico Franca Moreira
    12 TD Attempts Round 1
    10
    Eryk Anders
    Eryk Anders vs JunYong Park
    12 TD Attempts Round 3
    11
    Matt Serra
    Matt Serra vs Din Thomas
    12 TD Attempts Round 3
    12
    Merab Dvalishvili
    Merab Dvalishvili vs Petr Yan
    12 TD Attempts Round 5
    13
    Farman Hasanov vs Eric Nolan
    12 TD Attempts Round 1
    14
    Darren Elkins
    Darren Elkins vs Eduardo Garagorri
    12 TD Attempts Round 1
    15
    Merab Dvalishvili
    Merab Dvalishvili vs Ricky Simon
    12 TD Attempts Round 1
    16
    Bryce Mitchell
    Bryce Mitchell vs Jean Silva
    11 TD Attempts Round 2
    17
    Merab Dvalishvili
    Merab Dvalishvili vs Casey Kenney
    11 TD Attempts Round 2
    18
    Rafael Estevam
    Rafael Estevam vs Charles Johnson
    11 TD Attempts Round 3
    19
    Gabe Ruediger
    Gabe Ruediger vs Melvin Guillard
    11 TD Attempts Round 1
    20
    Khabib Nurmagomedov
    Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Abel Trujillo
    11 TD Attempts Round 3
    21
    Muhammad Mokaev
    Muhammad Mokaev vs Charles Johnson
    11 TD Attempts Round 1
    22
    Ion Cutelaba
    Ion Cutelaba vs Dustin Jacoby
    11 TD Attempts Round 1
    23
    Demian Maia
    Demian Maia vs Rory MacDonald
    11 TD Attempts Round 3
    24
    Marcelo Guimaraes
    Marcelo Guimaraes vs Dan Stittgen
    11 TD Attempts Round 1
    25
    Anthony Ivy
    Anthony Ivy vs Bryan Barberena
    11 TD Attempts Round 3
    26
    Farman Hasanov vs Eric Nolan
    11 TD Attempts Round 2
    27
    Tommy Gantt
    Tommy Gantt vs Artur Minev
    11 TD Attempts Round 1
    28
    Demian Maia
    Demian Maia vs Belal Muhammad
    11 TD Attempts Round 1
    29
    Dan Argueta vs Jean Matsumoto
    11 TD Attempts Round 2
    30
    Jacob Malkoun
    Jacob Malkoun vs Abdul Razak Alhassan
    11 TD Attempts Round 1
    31
    Mario Bautista
    Mario Bautista vs Cory Sandhagen
    11 TD Attempts Round 3
    32
    Danilo Marques
    Danilo Marques vs Kennedy Nzechukwu
    11 TD Attempts Round 2
    33
    Anthony Hernandez
    Anthony Hernandez vs Roman Kopylov
    11 TD Attempts Round 1
    34
    Azat Maksum
    Azat Maksum vs Mitch Raposo
    11 TD Attempts Round 3
    35
    Thiago Santos
    Thiago Santos vs Jamahal Hill
    11 TD Attempts Round 3
    36
    Olivier Aubin-Mercier
    Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs David Michaud
    10 TD Attempts Round 1
    37
    Per Eklund
    Per Eklund vs Sam Stout
    10 TD Attempts Round 1
    38
    Per Eklund
    Per Eklund vs Sam Stout
    10 TD Attempts Round 2
    39
    Tatsuya Kawajiri
    Tatsuya Kawajiri vs Sean Soriano
    10 TD Attempts Round 1
    40
    Johny Hendricks
    Johny Hendricks vs Rick Story
    10 TD Attempts Round 3
    41
    Jimmy Crute
    Jimmy Crute vs Michal Oleksiejczuk
    10 TD Attempts Round 1
    42
    Wilson Reis
    Wilson Reis vs Dustin Ortiz
    10 TD Attempts Round 3
    43
    Justin Edwards
    Justin Edwards vs Jorge Lopez
    10 TD Attempts Round 1
    44
    Nik Lentz
    Nik Lentz vs Diego Nunes
    10 TD Attempts Round 1
    45
    Christos Giagos
    Christos Giagos vs Carlton Minus
    10 TD Attempts Round 3
    46
    Makwan Amirkhani
    Makwan Amirkhani vs Shane Burgos
    10 TD Attempts Round 1
    47
    Aljamain Sterling
    Aljamain Sterling vs Petr Yan
    10 TD Attempts Round 5
    48
    Rob Wilkinson
    Rob Wilkinson vs Israel Adesanya
    10 TD Attempts Round 1
    49
    Tom Lawlor
    Tom Lawlor vs Kyle Kingsbury
    10 TD Attempts Round 3
    50
    Misha Cirkunov
    Misha Cirkunov vs Krzysztof Jotko
    10 TD Attempts Round 3

    The Most Takedown Attempts in a Single UFC Round

    Takedowns landed record the grappling that worked. Takedown attempts record the pressure itself — the level changes, the failed entries, the re-shots against the fence. Narrowed to one round, that pressure becomes a density measurement: how many times can a wrestler go to the legs before the horn.

    This is where the round view separates from the fight view. Across a full bout, totals belong to whoever had the most minutes to build them, which hands the ceiling to five-round main events. Over a single round nobody has extra time to spend, so the ranking answers a narrower question — whose five minutes were the most relentless — and a prelim wrestler chasing a contract can answer it as loudly as a champion.

    How these records are measured

    Each row is one fighter's takedown attempts inside one scored round, taken from official round-by-round statistics. The Single Fighter tab isolates one athlete; Combined adds both corners together to find rounds where the wrestling ran in both directions. Filter by division to see the mark within a weight class, and follow any row through to the full fight.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    What counts as a takedown attempt inside one round?
    Every shot credited by the official per-round statistics counts: singles, doubles, body locks, trips out of the clinch and reactive shots off a strike. A denied attempt still scores, and a fighter who chains three re-shots off one entry banks three attempts, which is why the leaders here tend to be wrestlers who refuse to reset after a stuff.
    Why can a fighter who lost the round still rank near the top?
    Because this list measures grappling volume, not the result. A wrestler can shoot ten or more times in five minutes, get stuffed on nearly all of them, absorb counters on the exit and still finish the round with one of the highest attempt counts on record. The scorecard punishes that round; the record book preserves it.
    How does this differ from the takedown attempts in a fight record?
    The fight record is a total, so a twenty-five-minute main event has five rounds in which to build it and almost always outranks a three-round prelim. Strip the timer back to a single round and the accumulation advantage disappears — a co-main or an untelevised opener sits on exactly the same five-minute footing as a title fight.
    Which rounds produce the biggest attempt counts?
    Both ends of a fight can. Fresh legs and a game plan built on early takedowns push round-one numbers up, while late surges come from wrestlers hunting a score they know they need or exploiting an opponent whose base has faded. Each row shows the round it came from, so the two patterns are easy to separate.