The 5 UFC fighters with the best win percentage in the Middleweight division

#4 Luke Rockhold – win percentage of 84%

Luke Rockhold is the former UFC Middleweight champion

Former UFC champion Rockhold has the same win percentage as David Branch, but as he defeated Branch in September I’ve decided to put him ahead of the former WSOF champ. Currently pegged to face off with Robert Whittaker in an attempt to reclaim the title that Michael Bisping took from him in June 2016, Rockhold currently has an overall fight record of 16-3 – a win percentage of 84%. It’s a very impressive record, especially when you look at some of the names he’s beaten – Chris Weidman, Ronaldo Souza and Lyoto Machida, for example.

Perhaps the one knock on Rockhold? Like many fighters from the American Kickboxing Academy, he doesn’t fight all that often. He’s had 19 professional fights since 2007, which averages as less than two fights per year – not that many when you consider most fighters manage at least two if not three.

And since arriving in the UFC in 2013 he’s managed eight – not even coming close to two per year. After being dethroned by Bisping, for instance, he was on the shelf for fifteen months.

Despite his periods of inactivity, Rockhold is clearly a super-talented fighter. Equally skilled on the ground and on his feet, Rockhold has finished his foes in a multitude of ways, from chokes and armlocks to knockouts using punches and kicks.

If he can defeat Whittaker in February he’ll become the only fighter in UFC history to become a two-time Middleweight champion – a lofty position indeed given how tricky it is to make it to the top in the first place.