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	Darren Elkins	2h 8m	5h 50m	29
2	Pat Sabatini	1h 15m	1h 45m	11
3	Dennis Bermudez	1h 10m	2h 57m	15
4	Bryce Mitchell	1h 3m	2h 4m	11
5	Mirsad Bektic	1h 1m	1h 42m	10
6	Frankie Edgar	52:49	3h 25m	13
7	Movsar Evloev	52:30	2h 25m	9
8	Damon Jackson	51:34	2h 4m	12
9	Movlid Khaybulaev	47:15	2h 21m	11
10	Makwan Amirkhani	44:37	2h 9m	14
11	Alexander Volkanovski	43:22	4h 13m	14
12	Andre Fili	42:38	4h 43m	26
13	Youssef Zalal	42:33	2h 28m	12
14	Tatsuya Kawajiri	41:57	1h 21m	6
15	Ricardo Lamas	40:05	2h 55m	17
16	Joanderson Brito	40:03	1h 40m	12
17	Chas Skelly	39:54	1h 45m	11
18	Jonathan Pearce	39:39	1h 25m	8
19	Nik Lentz	39:32	1h 30m	7
20	Hatsu Hioki	37:50	1h 49m	8
21	Jeremy Kennedy	37:01	1h 35m	8
22	Andy Ogle	36:57	1h 13m	6
23	Gabriel Braga	36:26	2h 2m	12
24	Enrique Barzola	34:47	2h 45m	11
25	Dustin Poirier	34:41	1h 43m	11
26	Jakub Tichota	33:38	1h 45m	8
27	Hacran Dias	32:57	1h 45m	7
28	Jeremy Stephens	32:06	3h 33m	17
29	Arnold Allen	32:03	3h 37m	15
30	TJ Brown	31:52	1h 39m	8
31	Shayilan Nuerdanbieke	31:36	1h 4m	6
32	Jack Jenkins	31:20	1h 46m	8
33	Daniel Pineda	31:06	2h 1m	13
34	Rani Yahya	31:03	1h 18m	6
35	Gjoni Palokaj	30:52	1h 18m	6
36	Clay Guida	29:53	1h 19m	7
37	Chad Mendes	29:44	1h 56m	14
38	Shamil Gasanov	29:14	1h 18m	5
39	James Hendin	29:01	1h 5m	5
40	Dan Ige	28:57	4h 19m	21
41	Billy Quarantillo	28:49	1h 58m	11
42	Mate Sanikidze	28:42	1h 11m	5
43	Patryk Kaczmarczyk	28:36	1h 9m	5
44	Jose Aldo	28:18	4h 1m	15
45	Jamall Emmers	27:12	1h 36m	11
46	Charles Oliveira	26:58	1h 39m	12
47	Steven Peterson	26:03	1h 52m	8
48	Jimy Hettes	25:44	1h 3m	6
49	Zabit Magomedsharipov	25:12	1h 18m	6
50	Darrick Minner	24:45	49:54	7
51	Tyler Diamond	24:36	1h 34m	7
52	Marco Novák	24:22	1h 19m	6
53	Sam Sicilia	24:03	1h 36m	11
54	Mike Brown	23:52	1h 1m	5
55	Alex Caceres	23:50	3h 58m	20
56	Max Holloway	23:19	6h 59m	27
57	Charles Rosa	22:50	2h 29m	11
58	Cub Swanson	22:32	5h 1m	25
59	Felipe Arantes	22:27	1h 49m	8
60	Bill Algeo	21:49	2h 11m	11
61	Muhammad Naimov	21:45	1h 25m	8
62	Charles Jourdain	21:44	2h 21m	12
63	Bubba Jenkins	21:42	2h 17m	12
64	Lerone Murphy	21:13	2h 43m	11
65	Roman Paulus	20:54	1h 30m	6
66	Manvel Gamburyan	20:01	1h 15m	5
67	Dennis Siver	19:53	1h 34m	7
68	Chan Sung Jung	19:44	2h 31m	12
69	SeungWoo Choi	19:41	1h 48m	11
70	Marko Ančić	19:38	57:29	6
71	Bogdan Grad	19:18	54:25	5
72	Diego Brandao	19:15	1h 15m	9
73	Radek Roušal	19:12	1h 13m	8
74	Luca Borando	19:08	41:31	5
75	Jason Knight	18:58	2h 10m	10
T-76	Jordan Griffin	18:53	1h 13m	6
T-76	Abdullah Al-Qahtani	18:53	1h 1m	6
78	Matt Elliott	18:42	51:34	5
79	Chepe Mariscal	18:18	1h 8m	5
T-80	Francis Marshall	17:13	58:31	6
T-80	Sodiq Yusuff	17:13	1h 49m	11
82	Dawid Kareta	17:03	1h 19m	6
83	Kyle Nelson	17:00	1h 18m	8
84	Chase Hooper	16:52	1h 17m	7
85	Christian Rodriguez	16:49	1h 24m	7
86	Mizuto Hirota	16:48	1h 15m	5
87	Nathaniel Wood	16:15	2h 15m	9
88	Zubaira Tukhugov	15:59	1h 38m	8
89	Dooho Choi	15:29	1h 27m	11
90	Ricky Glenn	15:28	1h 15m	5
91	William Gomis	15:27	1h 42m	7
92	David Onama	15:21	1h 10m	7
93	Brian Ortega	15:17	2h 47m	12
94	Ilia Topuria	15:06	1h 16m	7
95	Shane Burgos	14:59	2h 21m	11
96	Kai Kamaka III	14:53	57:31	5
97	Solomon Simon	14:35	51:31	5
T-98	Steven Siler	14:25	2h 21m	15
T-98	Kyohei Hagiwara	14:25	58:00	5
100	Michihiro Omigawa	14:05	1h 15m	5

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.

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.