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UFC knockdowns per fight by weight class

Across the UFC record, knockdowns per fight are highest at Light Heavyweight at 0.53 (752 fights) and lowest at Women's Flyweight at 0.16 (279 fights).

How many knockdowns a UFC fight produces, both corners counted together.
Computed from 8,472 fights · 11 divisions · 1 withheld under 30 fights (29 bouts) · updated 11 October 2026
Knockdowns per fight by weight class11 bars. Highest: Light Heavyweight at 0.53 from 752 fights. The table below carries every value.LightweightLightweight: 0.42 (1,443 fights)0.42WelterweightWelterweight: 0.49 (1,388 fights)0.49MiddleweightMiddleweight: 0.48 (1,146 fights)0.48FeatherweightFeatherweight: 0.47 (868 fights)0.47BantamweightBantamweight: 0.49 (778 fights)0.49HeavyweightHeavyweight: 0.48 (766 fights)0.48Light HeavyweightLight Heavyweight: 0.53 (752 fights)0.53FlyweightFlyweight: 0.45 (424 fights)0.45Women's StrawweightWomen's Strawweight: 0.18 (379 fights)0.18Women's FlyweightWomen's Flyweight: 0.16 (279 fights)0.16Women's BantamweightWomen's Bantamweight: 0.18 (249 fights)0.18
Knockdowns per fight by weight class · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
DivisionKnockdowns / fightKnockdownsFights
Lightweight0.426021,443
Welterweight0.496771,388
Middleweight0.485511,146
Featherweight0.47406868
Bantamweight0.49379778
Heavyweight0.48371766
Light Heavyweight0.53398752
Flyweight0.45189424
Women's Strawweight0.1868379
Women's Flyweight0.1645279
Women's Bantamweight0.1845249
See also. This page is how often; these are the extremes on the same record: Most knockdowns in a single UFC fight
What counts. A knockdown is the official record’s own count, added across both corners. Bouts the record carries no knockdown column for are excluded rather than counted as zero. 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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