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UFC knockout rate by weight class

Across the UFC record, the knockout rate is highest at Heavyweight at 53% (766 fights) and lowest at Women's Strawweight at 14% (379 fights).

How often a UFC fight ends in a knockout — the number itself, not a highlight reel, every bout on the official record since 1994.
Computed from 8,472 fights · 11 divisions · 1 withheld under 30 fights (29 bouts) · updated 11 October 2026
Knockout rate by weight class11 bars. Highest: Heavyweight at 53% from 766 fights. The table below carries every value.LightweightLightweight: 31% (1,443 fights)31%WelterweightWelterweight: 34% (1,388 fights)34%MiddleweightMiddleweight: 39% (1,146 fights)39%FeatherweightFeatherweight: 30% (868 fights)30%BantamweightBantamweight: 27% (778 fights)27%HeavyweightHeavyweight: 53% (766 fights)53%Light HeavyweightLight Heavyweight: 46% (752 fights)46%FlyweightFlyweight: 24% (424 fights)24%Women's StrawweightWomen's Strawweight: 14% (379 fights)14%Women's FlyweightWomen's Flyweight: 17% (279 fights)17%Women's BantamweightWomen's Bantamweight: 22% (249 fights)22%
Knockout rate by weight class · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
DivisionKnockout rateKnockoutsFights
Lightweight31%4421,443
Welterweight34%4711,388
Middleweight39%4421,146
Featherweight30%263868
Bantamweight27%210778
Heavyweight53%407766
Light Heavyweight46%348752
Flyweight24%102424
Women's Strawweight14%54379
Women's Flyweight17%47279
Women's Bantamweight22%55249
See also. This page is how often; these are the extremes on the same record: Fastest KOs in UFC history · Most knockouts in UFC history
What counts. A knockout here is any bout the official record ends by KO/TKO, including a doctor’s stoppage, which UFCStats files as its own method. 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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