Most control time

Name: Most control time
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The all-time top 100, ranked across every MMA promotion we track and rebuilt from every completed fight in our database.

Updated September 21, 2026

A fighter with a bout in the last 18 months. Country boards rank every fighter from that country and cannot be combined with the active filter.

#	Fighter	Most control time	Fight time	Bouts
1	Georges St-Pierre	2h 42m	5h 43m	22
2	Clay Guida	2h 36m	7h 3m	37
3	Demian Maia	2h 35m	6h 50m	33
4	Kamaru Usman	2h 27m	6h 4m	20
5	Rafael Dos Anjos	2h 17m	8h 43m	36
6	Darren Elkins	2h 9m	5h 51m	31
7	Jon Fitch	2h 8m	3h 59m	18
8	Randy Couture	2h 7m	4h 34m	24
9	Colby Covington	2h 5m	4h 48m	17
10	Tito Ortiz	1h 59m	4h 54m	27
11	Matt Hughes	1h 58m	3h 43m	25
12	Islam Makhachev	1h 54m	3h 43m	19
13	Valentina Shevchenko	1h 54m	6h 2m	19
14	Gleison Tibau	1h 54m	6h 11m	33
15	Karlos Vemola	1h 52m	4h	23
16	Grant Dawson	1h 50m	2h 56m	16
17	Aljamain Sterling	1h 50m	5h 31m	23
18	Gillian Robertson	1h 49m	3h 52m	21
19	Merab Dvalishvili	1h 47m	4h 59m	17
20	Frankie Edgar	1h 46m	7h 57m	30
21	Yushin Okami	1h 43m	4h 27m	22
22	Demetrious Johnson	1h 42m	5h 34m	18
23	Charles Oliveira	1h 40m	4h 48m	36
24	Diego Sanchez	1h 39m	6h 37m	32
25	Chael Sonnen	1h 39m	2h 23m	14
26	Nik Lentz	1h 36m	5h 7m	24
27	Neil Magny	1h 36m	7h 31m	38
28	Khabib Nurmagomedov	1h 35m	2h 52m	13
29	Josh Koscheck	1h 32m	3h 59m	25
30	Dong Hyun Kim	1h 32m	3h 5m	17
31	Jim Miller	1h 31m	7h 19m	46
32	Beneil Dariush	1h 31m	3h 44m	26
33	Kevin Lee	1h 30m	3h 40m	20
34	Antonio Carlos Junior	1h 28m	4h 6m	22
35	Rani Yahya	1h 28m	3h 50m	20
36	Sean Sherk	1h 27m	3h 7m	12
37	Tim Elliott	1h 27m	4h 45m	23
38	Curtis Blaydes	1h 26m	3h 23m	21
39	David Kozma	1h 25m	3h 53m	18
40	Bryce Mitchell	1h 25m	2h 34m	13
41	Jon Jones	1h 24m	5h 44m	23
42	Corey Anderson	1h 22m	3h 16m	17
43	Anthony Hernandez	1h 22m	2h 42m	13
44	Krzysztof Jotko	1h 22m	4h 50m	23
45	Jasmine Jasudavicius	1h 21m	2h 46m	13
46	Michael Chiesa	1h 21m	3h 23m	22
47	Derek Brunson	1h 21m	3h 15m	22
48	Mark Bocek	1h 21m	2h 28m	13
49	Rashad Evans	1h 21m	4h 49m	23
50	Johny Hendricks	1h 20m	4h 9m	21
51	Thales Leites	1h 19m	4h 24m	21
52	Mike Pierce	1h 19m	2h 48m	14
53	Ray Borg	1h 19m	2h 53m	12
54	Glover Teixeira	1h 19m	4h 25m	23
55	Alexandre Pantoja	1h 18m	4h	19
56	Matt Lindland	1h 17m	1h 57m	12
57	Jeremy Stephens	1h 17m	7h 25m	38
58	Ryan Bader	1h 16m	3h 25m	21
59	Ketlen Vieira	1h 16m	4h 14m	16
60	Belal Muhammad	1h 16m	5h 42m	21
61	Marcin Tybura	1h 16m	4h 39m	25
62	Rick Story	1h 15m	4h 26m	22
63	Virna Jandiroba	1h 15m	2h 53m	13
64	Pat Sabatini	1h 15m	1h 45m	11
65	Mackenzie Dern	1h 14m	4h 12m	17
66	Olivier Aubin-Mercier	1h 13m	4h 51m	22
67	Liz Carmouche	1h 13m	3h 45m	17
68	Jake Matthews	1h 13m	4h 36m	24
69	Court McGee	1h 12m	5h 3m	24
70	Dennis Bermudez	1h 12m	3h 17m	17
71	Jailton Almeida	1h 11m	1h 53m	13
72	Eryk Anders	1h 10m	3h 54m	19
T-73	Gilbert Burns	1h 10m	5h 9m	25
T-73	Sara McMann	1h 10m	2h 4m	13
75	Gray Maynard	1h 10m	4h 12m	19
76	Wilson Reis	1h 10m	3h 2m	16
77	Leon Edwards	1h 10m	5h 30m	19
78	Dustin Poirier	1h 10m	5h 39m	31
79	Amanda Nunes	1h 10m	3h 24m	18
80	Sean Brady	1h 10m	2h 27m	11
81	Alex Oliveira	1h 8m	3h 29m	22
82	Brendan Allen	1h 8m	3h 46m	20
83	Tatiana Suarez	1h 7m	1h 53m	10
84	Cain Velasquez	1h 7m	1h 51m	15
85	Brett Johns	1h 7m	2h 12m	10
86	Nate Marquardt	1h 7m	3h 59m	25
T-87	Raquel Pennington	1h 6m	4h 51m	19
T-87	Ed Herman	1h 6m	4h 2m	25
89	Matthew Riddle	1h 6m	2h 20m	10
90	Arman Tsarukyan	1h 5m	2h 32m	13
91	Lucie Pudilova	1h 5m	5h 48m	23
92	Danny Castillo	1h 5m	2h 53m	14
93	Francisco Trinaldo	1h 5m	5h 22m	26
T-94	Benson Henderson	1h 5m	4h 13m	15
T-94	Chris Weidman	1h 5m	3h 22m	20
96	Jessica Andrade	1h 5m	4h 46m	30
97	Michel Prazeres	1h 4m	3h 46m	17
98	Brandon Moreno	1h 4m	5h 56m	21
99	Miesha Tate	1h 4m	3h 24m	14
100	Jared Gordon	1h 4m	3h 4m	17

Ranked across every MMA promotion we track. BKFC is bare-knuckle boxing — two-minute rounds, and a punch count that is not a significant-strike count — so it is ranked only on its own boards.

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