Most Takedowns in a UFC Round

The most takedowns ever landed inside one five-minute round — by a single fighter, and by both fighters combined.

The Most Takedowns Landed in a Single UFC Round

Five minutes is the shortest complete unit the sport scores, and it is the honest test of a wrestler. This record book isolates the heaviest takedown volume ever compressed into one round — first for a single fighter, then for both fighters combined — using official round-by-round statistics.

The distinction from the single-fight list matters. Across a full bout, takedowns accumulate with time, so five-round main events crowd out everything else and the leaderboard quietly becomes a list of championship grappling clinics. A round record cannot accumulate. It measures rate: chain wrestling in its purest form, where the opponent stands up, gets planted again, and stands up into the next entry before he has caught his breath. A losing fighter, a short-notice replacement or an opening-bout prospect can own one of these rounds outright.

How to read this leaderboard

Switch between the Single Fighter and Combined tabs to move from one athlete's output to the two-way total of a round where both men were hunting the mat. The division filter narrows the record to a weight class, which is worth using — the lighter divisions wrestle at a tempo the heavyweights cannot sustain. Every entry shows the round it came from, the opponent and the date, and links through to the full fight.