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 25, 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	Kazumasa Majima	40:02	1h	8
18	Chas Skelly	39:54	1h 45m	11
19	Jonathan Pearce	39:39	1h 25m	8
20	Nik Lentz	39:32	1h 30m	7
21	Hatsu Hioki	37:50	1h 49m	8
22	Jeremy Kennedy	37:01	1h 35m	8
23	Andy Ogle	36:57	1h 13m	6
24	Gabriel Braga	36:26	2h 2m	12
25	Enrique Barzola	34:47	2h 45m	11
26	Dustin Poirier	34:41	1h 43m	11
27	Jakub Tichota	33:38	1h 45m	8
28	Hacran Dias	32:57	1h 45m	7
29	Jeremy Stephens	32:06	3h 33m	17
30	Arnold Allen	32:03	3h 37m	15
31	TJ Brown	31:52	1h 39m	8
32	Shayilan Nuerdanbieke	31:36	1h 4m	6
33	Jack Jenkins	31:20	1h 46m	8
34	Daniel Pineda	31:06	2h 1m	13
35	Rani Yahya	31:03	1h 18m	6
36	Gjoni Palokaj	30:52	1h 18m	6
37	Clay Guida	29:53	1h 19m	7
38	Chad Mendes	29:44	1h 56m	14
39	Shamil Gasanov	29:14	1h 18m	5
40	James Hendin	29:01	1h 5m	5
41	Dan Ige	28:57	4h 19m	21
42	Billy Quarantillo	28:49	1h 58m	11
43	Mate Sanikidze	28:42	1h 11m	5
44	Patryk Kaczmarczyk	28:36	1h 9m	5
45	Jose Aldo	28:18	4h 1m	15
46	Jamall Emmers	27:12	1h 36m	11
47	Charles Oliveira	26:58	1h 39m	12
48	Steven Peterson	26:03	1h 52m	8
49	Jimy Hettes	25:44	1h 3m	6
50	Zabit Magomedsharipov	25:12	1h 18m	6
51	Darrick Minner	24:45	49:54	7
52	Tyler Diamond	24:36	1h 34m	7
53	Marco Novák	24:22	1h 19m	6
54	Sam Sicilia	24:03	1h 36m	11
55	Mike Brown	23:52	1h 1m	5
56	Alex Caceres	23:50	3h 58m	20
57	Kleber Koike Erbst	23:29	1h 14m	6
58	Max Holloway	23:19	6h 59m	27
59	Charles Rosa	22:50	2h 29m	11
60	Cub Swanson	22:32	5h 1m	25
T-61	Felipe Arantes	22:27	1h 49m	8
T-61	Vugar Karamov	22:27	55:17	6
63	Bill Algeo	21:49	2h 11m	11
64	Muhammad Naimov	21:45	1h 25m	8
65	Charles Jourdain	21:44	2h 21m	12
66	Lerone Murphy	21:13	2h 43m	11
67	Bubba Jenkins	20:58	2h 17m	12
68	Roman Paulus	20:54	1h 30m	6
69	Manvel Gamburyan	20:01	1h 15m	5
70	Dennis Siver	19:53	1h 34m	7
71	Chan Sung Jung	19:44	2h 31m	12
72	SeungWoo Choi	19:41	1h 48m	11
73	Marko Ančić	19:38	57:29	6
74	Mikuru Asakura	19:21	47:08	5
75	Bogdan Grad	19:18	54:25	5
76	Diego Brandao	19:15	1h 15m	9
77	Radek Roušal	19:12	1h 13m	8
78	Luca Borando	19:08	41:31	5
79	Jason Knight	18:58	2h 10m	10
T-80	Jordan Griffin	18:53	1h 13m	6
T-80	Abdullah Al-Qahtani	18:53	1h 1m	6
82	Matt Elliott	18:42	51:34	5
83	Chepe Mariscal	18:18	1h 8m	5
T-84	Francis Marshall	17:13	58:31	6
T-84	Sodiq Yusuff	17:13	1h 49m	11
86	Dawid Kareta	17:03	1h 19m	6
87	Kyle Nelson	17:00	1h 18m	8
88	Chase Hooper	16:52	1h 17m	7
89	Christian Rodriguez	16:49	1h 24m	7
90	Mizuto Hirota	16:48	1h 15m	5
91	Jan Masek	16:25	1h 8m	5
92	Kyohei Hagiwara	16:16	1h 5m	8
93	Nathaniel Wood	16:15	2h 15m	9
94	Zubaira Tukhugov	15:59	1h 38m	8
95	Rajabali Shaidullaev	15:41	30:10	5
96	Dooho Choi	15:29	1h 27m	11
97	Ricky Glenn	15:28	1h 15m	5
98	William Gomis	15:27	1h 42m	7
99	David Onama	15:21	1h 10m	7
100	Brian Ortega	15:17	2h 47m	12

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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