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	Chael Sonnen	1h 31m	2h 3m	10
2	Anthony Hernandez	1h 22m	2h 42m	13
3	Yushin Okami	1h 21m	3h 40m	18
4	Krzysztof Jotko	1h 20m	4h 43m	22
5	Thales Leites	1h 19m	4h 24m	21
6	Derek Brunson	1h 10m	3h	21
7	Brendan Allen	1h 7m	3h 33m	18
8	Nate Marquardt	1h 7m	3h 54m	23
9	Matt Lindland	1h 5m	1h 43m	11
10	Chris Weidman	1h 2m	3h 10m	18
11	Antonio Carlos Junior	1h 1m	1h 59m	10
12	Trevor Smith	57:25	2h 30m	12
13	Rafael Natal	53:39	3h 32m	17
14	Marvin Vettori	53:34	4h 44m	17
15	Chris Leben	52:36	3h 19m	22
16	Andre Petroski	52:32	2h 14m	13
17	CB Dollaway	51:32	2h 27m	18
18	Eryk Anders	51:10	2h 57m	14
19	Gerald Meerschaert	49:23	3h 41m	26
20	Demian Maia	48:18	2h 23m	13
21	JunYong Park	47:44	2h 40m	13
22	Jacob Malkoun	47:28	1h 40m	9
23	Cezar Ferreira	47:08	2h 17m	13
24	Brad Tavares	46:38	6h 4m	28
25	Ed Herman	46:33	2h 4m	15
26	Khamzat Chimaev	45:28	1h 15m	6
27	Mark Munoz	42:51	2h 7m	14
28	Aaron Simpson	42:15	1h 46m	9
29	Samuel Krištofič	41:42	2h 16m	11
30	Caio Borralho	39:36	2h 34m	10
31	Karlos Vemola	39:11	1h 19m	8
32	Jorge Rivera	38:52	1h 56m	15
33	Jacare Souza	38:12	2h 13m	15
34	Roman Dolidze	36:22	2h 27m	11
35	Torrez Finney	35:50	57:06	5
36	Evan Tanner	35:48	1h 36m	12
37	Patrik Kincl	35:37	2h 16m	8
38	Rodolfo Vieira	35:12	1h 55m	11
39	Jack Hermansson	35:03	3h 21m	18
40	David Branch	34:18	1h 22m	9
41	Dario Bellandi	34:09	1h 34m	5
42	Francis Carmont	33:23	1h 49m	9
43	Makhmud Muradov	32:42	2h 15m	11
T-44	Andre Muniz	32:04	1h 46m	12
T-44	Jared Cannonier	32:04	3h 47m	14
46	Dustin Stoltzfus	31:47	1h 57m	12
47	Andrew Sanchez	31:22	2h 9m	10
48	Rich Franklin	31:11	1h 45m	10
49	Jason MacDonald	31:08	1h 24m	14
50	Dusko Todorovic	30:35	1h 29m	12
51	Reinier de Ridder	30:11	1h 33m	7
52	Elias Theodorou	29:50	2h 24m	10
53	Ricardo Almeida	28:42	57:15	6
54	Kyle Daukaus	28:13	1h 15m	9
55	Gegard Mousasi	27:55	1h 45m	11
56	Dan Miller	27:36	2h 9m	11
57	Chris Camozzi	27:19	3h 44m	19
58	Tim Boetsch	27:18	2h 39m	17
59	Mick Stanton	27:10	1h 1m	5
60	Will Currie	27:04	1h 13m	6
61	Alan Belcher	26:16	2h 14m	13
62	Kelvin Gastelum	26:15	3h 44m	16
63	Nassourdine Imavov	26:03	2h 30m	10
64	Tom Lawlor	25:36	1h 2m	8
65	Rousimar Palhares	25:20	1h 16m	11
66	Kevin Holland	24:56	2h 53m	16
67	Yoel Romero	24:30	3h 11m	13
68	Gregory Rodrigues	24:24	2h 24m	15
69	Pawel Pawlak	24:15	1h 57m	5
70	Robert Whittaker	23:41	4h 27m	19
71	Sedriques Dumas	23:30	1h 9m	9
72	Wellington Turman	23:18	1h 15m	7
73	Magnus Cedenblad	23:09	47:05	6
74	Phil Baroni	22:13	1h 22m	9
75	Tim Kennedy	22:07	1h 8m	5
T-76	Edmen Shahbazyan	22:05	2h 21m	17
T-76	Piotr Wawrzyniak	22:05	59:45	5
78	Nick Catone	21:47	1h 12m	6
79	Michael Bisping	21:39	5h 15m	24
80	Christian Leroy Duncan	21:27	1h 45m	10
81	Ondřej Raška	20:49	58:36	10
82	Thiago Santos	20:48	1h 28m	15
83	Kerim Engizek	20:16	1h 32m	8
84	Abus Magomedov	20:10	1h 48m	12
85	Omari Akhmedov	19:52	1h 40m	8
T-86	Joe Doerksen	18:24	1h 32m	9
T-86	Riki Fukuda	18:24	1h 15m	5
88	Phil Hawes	18:15	1h 4m	10
T-89	Bo Nickal	18:09	52:57	9
T-89	David Hošek	18:09	1h 29m	11
91	Josh Fremd	18:06	1h 23m	7
92	Daniel Kelly	17:52	1h 37m	10
93	Zdeněk Polívka	17:42	1h 7m	8
94	Dricus Du Plessis	17:40	2h 54m	11
95	Kevin Casey	17:37	1h 1m	5
96	Ikram Aliskerov	17:36	58:16	8
97	Patrick Cote	17:06	1h 55m	11
98	Cody Brundage	16:36	1h 47m	14
99	Bruno Santos	16:29	1h 25m	6
100	Marc-Andre Barriault	16:23	2h 44m	15

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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