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UFC decision rate by weight class

Across the UFC record, the decision rate is highest at Women's Strawweight at 65% (379 fights) and lowest at Heavyweight at 32% (766 fights).

How often a UFC fight goes the distance and is scored by the judges.
Computed from 8,472 fights · 11 divisions · 1 withheld under 30 fights (29 bouts) · updated 11 October 2026
Decision rate by weight class11 bars. Highest: Women's Strawweight at 65% from 379 fights. The table below carries every value.LightweightLightweight: 47% (1,443 fights)47%WelterweightWelterweight: 47% (1,388 fights)47%MiddleweightMiddleweight: 40% (1,146 fights)40%FeatherweightFeatherweight: 53% (868 fights)53%BantamweightBantamweight: 53% (778 fights)53%HeavyweightHeavyweight: 32% (766 fights)32%Light HeavyweightLight Heavyweight: 36% (752 fights)36%FlyweightFlyweight: 54% (424 fights)54%Women's StrawweightWomen's Strawweight: 65% (379 fights)65%Women's FlyweightWomen's Flyweight: 63% (279 fights)63%Women's BantamweightWomen's Bantamweight: 61% (249 fights)61%
Decision rate by weight class · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
DivisionDecision rateDecisionsFights
Lightweight47%6811,443
Welterweight47%6561,388
Middleweight40%4561,146
Featherweight53%457868
Bantamweight53%410778
Heavyweight32%246766
Light Heavyweight36%269752
Flyweight54%229424
Women's Strawweight65%248379
Women's Flyweight63%176279
Women's Bantamweight61%151249
What counts. A decision is any bout the official record scores — unanimous, split or majority. A fight is a UFC bout on the official record with a result. Draws, no-contests and overturned results are excluded from every count on this page; disqualifications and could-not-continues are counted as fights, which is why the knockout, submission and decision shares do not add up to 100%. How this table is cut. Divisions as the official record labels the bout, heaviest table first by number of fights. 1 division withheld. Women's Featherweight rest on fewer than 30 fights (29 between them), so no percentage is printed for it — a rate off a handful of bouts is arithmetic, not a statistic. 259 fights are outside this table. They carry no division on the record at all — catchweight, open weight and the 1990s tournament bouts. They are not missing from our record — they are on the year-by-year archive like every other bout; there is simply no row here for them to sit in. Check us. Every number here is recomputed from the official UFC statistical record on each build — nothing on this page is typed in by hand. Search every fight to filter the same record yourself, or start from the year-by-year archive.
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