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UFC significant strikes per minute by weight class

Across the UFC record, fights are fastest at Women's Strawweight at 8.08 significant strikes a minute (379 fights) and slowest at Middleweight at 6.55 (1,143 fights).

The pace of a UFC fight: significant strikes landed per minute, both corners together.
Computed from 8,463 fights · 11 divisions · 1 withheld under 30 fights (29 bouts) · updated 11 October 2026
Significant strikes per minute by weight class11 bars. Highest: Women's Strawweight at 8.08 from 379 fights. The table below carries every value.LightweightLightweight: 6.87 (1,443 fights)6.87WelterweightWelterweight: 6.66 (1,388 fights)6.66MiddleweightMiddleweight: 6.55 (1,143 fights)6.55FeatherweightFeatherweight: 7.56 (868 fights)7.56BantamweightBantamweight: 7.41 (778 fights)7.41HeavyweightHeavyweight: 6.65 (763 fights)6.65Light HeavyweightLight Heavyweight: 6.81 (751 fights)6.81FlyweightFlyweight: 6.79 (423 fights)6.79Women's StrawweightWomen's Strawweight: 8.08 (379 fights)8.08Women's FlyweightWomen's Flyweight: 8.07 (278 fights)8.07Women's BantamweightWomen's Bantamweight: 7.41 (249 fights)7.41
Significant strikes per minute by weight class · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
DivisionStrikes / minuteStrikes landedFights
Lightweight6.87104,1431,443
Welterweight6.6699,0231,388
Middleweight6.5575,2521,143
Featherweight7.5673,167868
Bantamweight7.4165,782778
Heavyweight6.6544,585763
Light Heavyweight6.8147,711751
Flyweight6.7933,457423
Women's Strawweight8.0838,621379
Women's Flyweight8.0728,325278
Women's Bantamweight7.4122,697249
What counts. Significant strikes are the official record’s own landed count, added across both corners and divided by the total time those fights lasted — pooled, so a fifteen-second knockout cannot pull the average up. Fight length is elapsed time from the opening bell, derived from the round the bout ended in, the clock at that moment and how long each round of that format was booked for — so an open-format bout from the 1990s is measured by its real length. A handful of bouts carry a recorded clock that cannot be right (a decision timed short of the round it was scored in); they are left out of this page rather than averaged in. 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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