Most body strikes landed in UFC middleweight history

Paulo Costa holds the UFC middleweight record for most body strikes landed with 296 body strikes.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Body strikes	Fights
1	Paulo Costa	296	10
2	Sean Strickland	272	15
3	Israel Adesanya	257	18
4	Jared Cannonier	229	14
5	Brad Tavares	213	28
6	Elias Theodorou	211	11
7	Jack Hermansson	203	18
8	Chris Curtis	201	10
9	Marc-Andre Barriault	194	17
10	Eryk Anders	184	15
11	Gregory Rodrigues	176	14
12	Anderson Silva	172	21
13	Shara Magomedov	168	7
14	Kelvin Gastelum	166	18
15	Dricus Du Plessis	161	11
16	Brendan Allen	159	18
17	Michael Bisping	156	24
18	Ed Herman	146	17
19	Krzysztof Jotko	139	17
20	Trevor Smith	135	12
21	Chris Camozzi	130	19
22	Roman Kopylov	129	13
23	Robert Whittaker	128	19
24	Uriah Hall	126	19
25	Nate Marquardt	122	23
26	Marvin Vettori	120	18
27	Yoel Romero	119	13
28	Edmen Shahbazyan	114	16
28	Nassourdine Imavov	114	11
30	Tim Boetsch	113	17
30	Joaquin Buckley	113	9
32	Gerald Meerschaert	112	26
33	Mark Munoz	111	14
33	Jacare Souza	111	15
33	Kevin Holland	111	16
36	Michal Oleksiejczuk	110	11
37	Armen Petrosyan	109	7
38	Alex Pereira	100	5
39	Derek Brunson	99	21
39	Christian Leroy Duncan	99	11
41	Sam Alvey	98	16
42	Dustin Stoltzfus	97	11
43	Rich Franklin	96	10
44	Chris Leben	95	22
45	Andrew Sanchez	94	9
45	Makhmud Muradov	94	7
45	Michel Pereira	94	8
48	Rafael Natal	93	17
48	Chris Weidman	93	18
50	Luke Rockhold	89	10

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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.