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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 (748 fights) and lowest at Women's Flyweight at 0.16 (278 fights).

How many knockdowns a UFC fight produces, both corners counted together.
Computed from 8,435 fights · 11 divisions · 1 withheld under 30 fights (29 bouts) · updated 20 September 2026
Knockdowns per fight by weight class11 bars. Highest: Light Heavyweight at 0.53 from 748 fights. The table below carries every value.LightweightLightweight: 0.41 (1,438 fights)0.41WelterweightWelterweight: 0.49 (1,384 fights)0.49MiddleweightMiddleweight: 0.48 (1,141 fights)0.48FeatherweightFeatherweight: 0.47 (866 fights)0.47BantamweightBantamweight: 0.48 (771 fights)0.48HeavyweightHeavyweight: 0.48 (763 fights)0.48Light HeavyweightLight Heavyweight: 0.53 (748 fights)0.53FlyweightFlyweight: 0.44 (423 fights)0.44Women's StrawweightWomen's Strawweight: 0.18 (376 fights)0.18Women's FlyweightWomen's Flyweight: 0.16 (278 fights)0.16Women's BantamweightWomen's Bantamweight: 0.18 (247 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
Lightweight0.415961,438
Welterweight0.496761,384
Middleweight0.485491,141
Featherweight0.47403866
Bantamweight0.48373771
Heavyweight0.48368763
Light Heavyweight0.53396748
Flyweight0.44188423
Women's Strawweight0.1866376
Women's Flyweight0.1644278
Women's Bantamweight0.1845247
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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