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Average UFC fight length by weight class

Across the UFC record, fights are longest at Women's Strawweight at 12:39 (376 fights) and shortest at Heavyweight at 8:49 (760 fights).

How long a UFC fight actually lasts, measured from the opening bell to the stoppage or the final horn.
Computed from 8,426 fights · 11 divisions · 1 withheld under 30 fights (29 bouts) · updated 20 September 2026
Average fight length by weight class11 bars. Highest: Women's Strawweight at 12:39 from 376 fights. The table below carries every value.LightweightLightweight: 10:31 (1,438 fights)10:31WelterweightWelterweight: 10:43 (1,384 fights)10:43MiddleweightMiddleweight: 10:02 (1,138 fights)10:02FeatherweightFeatherweight: 11:10 (866 fights)11:10BantamweightBantamweight: 11:26 (771 fights)11:26HeavyweightHeavyweight: 8:49 (760 fights)8:49Light HeavyweightLight Heavyweight: 9:21 (747 fights)9:21FlyweightFlyweight: 11:40 (422 fights)11:40Women's StrawweightWomen's Strawweight: 12:39 (376 fights)12:39Women's FlyweightWomen's Flyweight: 12:35 (277 fights)12:35Women's BantamweightWomen's Bantamweight: 12:19 (247 fights)12:19
Average fight length by weight class · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
DivisionAverage lengthTotal timeFights
Lightweight10:31252 hours1,438
Welterweight10:43247 hours1,384
Middleweight10:02190 hours1,138
Featherweight11:10161 hours866
Bantamweight11:26147 hours771
Heavyweight8:49112 hours760
Light Heavyweight9:21116 hours747
Flyweight11:4082 hours422
Women's Strawweight12:3979 hours376
Women's Flyweight12:3558 hours277
Women's Bantamweight12:1951 hours247
See also. This page is how often; these are the extremes on the same record: Longest UFC fights ever · Shortest UFC fights ever · Latest finishes in UFC history · Most octagon time in UFC history
What counts. 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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