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UFC first-round finish rate by weight class

Across the UFC record, the first-round finish rate is highest at Heavyweight at 40% (763 fights) and lowest at Women's Strawweight at 14% (376 fights).

How often a UFC fight is over inside one round.
Computed from 8,435 fights · 11 divisions · 1 withheld under 30 fights (29 bouts) · updated 20 September 2026
First-round finish rate by weight class11 bars. Highest: Heavyweight at 40% from 763 fights. The table below carries every value.LightweightLightweight: 26% (1,438 fights)26%WelterweightWelterweight: 28% (1,384 fights)28%MiddleweightMiddleweight: 31% (1,141 fights)31%FeatherweightFeatherweight: 25% (866 fights)25%BantamweightBantamweight: 21% (771 fights)21%HeavyweightHeavyweight: 40% (763 fights)40%Light HeavyweightLight Heavyweight: 38% (748 fights)38%FlyweightFlyweight: 21% (423 fights)21%Women's StrawweightWomen's Strawweight: 14% (376 fights)14%Women's FlyweightWomen's Flyweight: 16% (278 fights)16%Women's BantamweightWomen's Bantamweight: 17% (247 fights)17%
First-round finish rate by weight class · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
DivisionR1 finish rateFirst-round finishesFights
Lightweight26%3801,438
Welterweight28%3811,384
Middleweight31%3501,141
Featherweight25%213866
Bantamweight21%164771
Heavyweight40%303763
Light Heavyweight38%281748
Flyweight21%88423
Women's Strawweight14%54376
Women's Flyweight16%45278
Women's Bantamweight17%43247
What counts. A first-round finish is a knockout or submission the official record places in round one. 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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