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UFC title fight finish rate by weight class

Name: UFC title-fight finish rate by weight class
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Across the UFC record, the title-fight finish rate is highest at Heavyweight at 75% (53 fights) and lowest at Welterweight at 48% (52 fights).

How often a UFC championship fight ends before the final bell.

Computed from 243 fights · 5 divisions · 7 withheld under 30 fights (145 bouts) · updated 14 October 2026

Title-fight finish rate by weight class · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.

Division	Finish rate	Finishes	Fights
Light Heavyweight	68%	39	57
Heavyweight	75%	40	53
Welterweight	48%	25	52
Middleweight	60%	25	42
Lightweight	59%	23	39

See also. This page is how often; these are the extremes on the same record: Most title defences in UFC history

What counts. A title fight is one the official record flags as a championship bout, interim titles included. A finish is a knockout (KO/TKO, including a doctor’s stoppage) or a submission. 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. 7 divisions withheld. Bantamweight, Flyweight, Featherweight, Women's Strawweight, Women's Bantamweight, Women's Flyweight and 1 more rest on fewer than 30 fights (145 between them), so no percentage is printed for them — a rate off a handful of bouts is arithmetic, not a statistic. 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.