Most reversals in UFC heavyweight history

Heath Herring and Stefan Struve share the UFC heavyweight records for most reversals with 6 reversals.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Reversals	Fights
1	Heath Herring	6	5
1	Stefan Struve	6	24
3	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	4	11
3	Derrick Lewis	4	32
3	Aleksei Oleinik	4	17
6	Jeff Monson	3	6
6	Cheick Kongo	3	18
6	Gilbert Yvel	3	3
6	Marcin Tybura	3	25
6	Fabricio Werdum	3	18
11	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	2	6
11	Ian Freeman	2	6
11	Ricco Rodriguez	2	7
11	Randy Couture	2	14
11	Jake O'Brien	2	5
11	James McSweeney	2	2
11	Christian Morecraft	2	4
11	Daniel Omielanczuk	2	9
11	Jailton Almeida	2	9
11	Serghei Spivac	2	16
11	Martin Buday	2	8
11	Louie Sutherland	2	4
23	Maurice Smith	1	7
23	Alex Hunter	1	2
23	Joe Charles	1	1
23	David Abbott	1	8
23	Sione Latu	1	1
23	Joey Roberts	1	1
23	Nate Schroeder	1	1
23	Bobby Hoffman	1	3
23	Vernon White	1	1
23	Mike van Arsdale	1	2
23	Dan Christison	1	2
23	Brad Imes	1	3
23	Fabiano Scherner	1	2
23	Tim Sylvia	1	13
23	Christian Wellisch	1	4
23	Eddie Sanchez	1	6
23	Antoni Hardonk	1	8
23	Mike Russow	1	6
23	Justin McCully	1	4
23	Darrill Schoonover	1	1
23	Paul Buentello	1	6
23	Joey Beltran	1	7
23	Rob Broughton	1	3
23	Frank Mir	1	27
23	Jon Olav Einemo	1	2
23	Brendan Schaub	1	11
23	Mark Hunt	1	18
23	Jack May	1	2
23	Ruan Potts	1	3
23	Josh Barnett	1	10
23	Andrei Arlovski	1	42
23	Dmitry Sosnovskiy	1	1
23	Mark Godbeer	1	4
23	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	1	15
23	Jeff Hughes	1	4
23	Francis Ngannou	1	14
23	Alexandr Romanov	1	10
23	Tanner Boser	1	10
23	Mick Parkin	1	6
23	Lukasz Brzeski	1	7
23	Valter Walker	1	6
23	Marcus Buchecha	1	3
23	Mario Pinto	1	4
23	Jhonata Diniz	1	6
23	Alexander Volkov	1	19

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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.