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UFC significant strikes per minute by weight class

Across the UFC record, fights are fastest at Women's Strawweight at 8.07 significant strikes a minute (376 fights) and slowest at Middleweight at 6.55 (1,138 fights).

The pace of a UFC fight: significant strikes landed per minute, both corners together.
Computed from 8,426 fights · 11 divisions · 1 withheld under 30 fights (29 bouts) · updated 20 September 2026
Significant strikes per minute by weight class11 bars. Highest: Women's Strawweight at 8.07 from 376 fights. The table below carries every value.LightweightLightweight: 6.87 (1,438 fights)6.87WelterweightWelterweight: 6.65 (1,384 fights)6.65MiddleweightMiddleweight: 6.55 (1,138 fights)6.55FeatherweightFeatherweight: 7.55 (866 fights)7.55BantamweightBantamweight: 7.41 (771 fights)7.41HeavyweightHeavyweight: 6.64 (760 fights)6.64Light HeavyweightLight Heavyweight: 6.81 (747 fights)6.81FlyweightFlyweight: 6.79 (422 fights)6.79Women's StrawweightWomen's Strawweight: 8.07 (376 fights)8.07Women's FlyweightWomen's Flyweight: 8.07 (277 fights)8.07Women's BantamweightWomen's Bantamweight: 7.43 (247 fights)7.43
Significant strikes per minute by weight class · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
DivisionStrikes / minuteStrikes landedFights
Lightweight6.87103,8501,438
Welterweight6.6598,6271,384
Middleweight6.5574,8491,138
Featherweight7.5573,037866
Bantamweight7.4165,263771
Heavyweight6.6444,478760
Light Heavyweight6.8147,565747
Flyweight6.7933,433422
Women's Strawweight8.0738,378376
Women's Flyweight8.0728,118277
Women's Bantamweight7.4322,588247
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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