Most knockdowns in UFC middleweight history

Anderson Silva and Israel Adesanya share the UFC middleweight records for most knockdowns with 13 knockdowns.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Knockdowns	Fights
1	Anderson Silva	13	21
1	Israel Adesanya	13	18
3	Nate Marquardt	12	23
4	Gregory Rodrigues	11	14
5	Yoel Romero	10	13
5	Roman Kopylov	10	13
7	Thiago Santos	9	15
7	Robert Whittaker	9	19
9	Jorge Rivera	8	15
9	Uriah Hall	8	19
9	Edmen Shahbazyan	8	16
12	Dan Henderson	7	10
12	Kelvin Gastelum	7	18
14	Vitor Belfort	6	13
14	Rich Franklin	6	10
14	Nate Quarry	6	10
14	Michael Bisping	6	24
14	Brian Stann	6	6
14	Tim Boetsch	6	17
14	Derek Brunson	6	21
14	Eryk Anders	6	15
14	Jared Cannonier	6	14
14	Joaquin Buckley	6	9
14	Ateba Gautier	6	6
25	Phil Baroni	5	9
25	Chris Leben	5	22
25	Drew McFedries	5	8
25	Aaron Simpson	5	9
25	Brad Tavares	5	28
25	Constantinos Philippou	5	9
25	Rafael Natal	5	17
25	Paulo Costa	5	10
25	Punahele Soriano	5	7
25	Marc-Andre Barriault	5	17
25	Joe Pyfer	5	8
36	David Loiseau	4	9
36	Patrick Cote	4	12
36	Thales Leites	4	21
36	Yushin Okami	4	18
36	Chris Weidman	4	18
36	Hector Lombard	4	8
36	Scott Askham	4	6
36	Sam Alvey	4	16
36	Zak Cummings	4	5
36	Dricus Du Plessis	4	11
36	Cody Brundage	4	15
36	Michal Oleksiejczuk	4	11
36	Damian Pinas	4	3
49	Wanderlei Silva	3	5
49	Alessio Sakara	3	8
49	Michael Kuiper	3	4
49	Dylan Andrews	3	5
49	Clint Hester	3	6
49	Jacare Souza	3	15
49	Lyoto Machida	3	9
49	CB Dollaway	3	19
49	Alessio Di Chirico	3	11
49	Jack Marshman	3	8
49	Anthony Smith	3	7
49	Siyar Bahadurzada	3	1
49	Oskar Piechota	3	6
49	Gerald Meerschaert	3	26
49	Andrew Sanchez	3	9
49	Trevin Giles	3	7
49	Makhmud Muradov	3	7
49	Kevin Holland	3	16
49	Abdul Razak Alhassan	3	7
49	Chris Curtis	3	10
49	Roman Dolidze	3	11
49	Brunno Ferreira	3	11
49	Ikram Aliskerov	3	6
49	Sean Strickland	3	15
49	Bo Nickal	3	7
49	Caio Borralho	3	9
49	Christian Leroy Duncan	3	11
49	Nursulton Ruziboev	3	6
49	Marco Tulio	3	4
49	Azamat Bekoev	3	4
49	Ryan Gandra	3	3
49	Yousri Belgaroui	3	3

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.