Best significant strike differential in UFC middleweight history

Thiago Santos holds the UFC middleweight record for best significant strike differential with 2.56 per minute.

UFC fights only, minimum 5 fights. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Per minute	Fights
1	Thiago Santos	2.56	15
2	Armen Petrosyan	2.48	7
3	Rich Franklin	2.39	10
4	Gegard Mousasi	2.25	11
5	Nate Quarry	2.16	10
6	Christian Leroy Duncan	2.15	11
7	Michal Oleksiejczuk	2.10	11
8	Phil Hawes	2.09	8
9	Chael Sonnen	2.01	10
10	Shara Magomedov	1.93	7
11	Jacob Malkoun	1.91	9
12	Ikram Aliskerov	1.88	6
13	Elias Theodorou	1.80	11
14	Kyle Noke	1.69	5
15	Nassourdine Imavov	1.66	11
16	Makhmud Muradov	1.64	7
17	Michael Bisping	1.53	24
18	Sean Strickland	1.53	15
19	Alex Pereira	1.47	5
20	Jack Hermansson	1.43	18
21	Brian Stann	1.37	6
22	Luke Rockhold	1.37	10
23	Bo Nickal	1.35	7
24	Gregory Rodrigues	1.25	14
25	Robert Whittaker	1.23	19
26	Matt Lindland	1.19	11
27	Court McGee	1.18	5
28	Cesar Almeida	1.16	6
29	Ivan Salaverry	1.09	7
30	Zachary Reese	1.05	8
31	Kevin Holland	0.99	16
32	Dricus Du Plessis	0.98	11
33	Israel Adesanya	0.97	18
34	Aaron Simpson	0.91	9
35	Nursulton Ruziboev	0.86	6
36	Jorge Rivera	0.85	15
37	JunYong Park	0.82	13
38	Trevin Giles	0.81	7
39	Riki Fukuda	0.80	5
40	Mark Munoz	0.76	14
41	Ricardo Almeida	0.75	6
42	Krzysztof Jotko	0.75	17
43	Anthony Hernandez	0.68	13
44	Caio Borralho	0.67	9
45	Khamzat Chimaev	0.64	6
46	Rafael Natal	0.62	17
47	Nate Marquardt	0.62	23
48	Garreth McLellan	0.61	5
49	Tom Lawlor	0.61	8
50	Chris Camozzi	0.61	19

Related records

How we count: results and statistics are from official UFC fight data. Strike and takedown numbers only exist for fights where the UFC recorded them. Rates need at least 5 UFC fights and enough attempts to be meaningful.