Most knockouts

Name: Most knockouts
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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 24, 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 knockouts	Wins	Bouts
1	Max Holloway	9	20	27
2	Cub Swanson	8	16	25
T-3	Dooho Choi	6	6	11
T-3	Chad Mendes	6	9	14
T-3	Conor McGregor	6	7	7
T-3	Jesus Pinedo	6	6	9
T-7	Steve Garcia	5	6	7
T-7	Dan Ige	5	12	21
T-7	Brendan Loughnane	5	11	14
T-10	Jeremy Stephens	4	8	17
T-10	Joanderson Brito	4	9	12
T-10	Ilia Topuria	4	7	7
T-10	Diego Lopes	4	6	10
T-10	Josh Emmett	4	8	14
T-10	Alexander Volkanovski	4	13	14
T-10	Morgan Charriere	4	4	8
T-10	Kevin Vallejos	4	5	6
T-10	Ludovit Klein	4	4	6
T-10	Losene Keita	4	4	6
T-10	Andre Fili	4	13	26
T-10	Chan Sung Jung	4	7	12
T-10	Yair Rodriguez	4	10	14
T-10	Calvin Kattar	4	7	15
T-10	Jose Aldo	4	10	15
T-10	Billy Quarantillo	4	6	11
T-10	Ricardo Lamas	4	11	17
T-10	Radek Roušal	4	7	8
T-10	Deniz Ilbay	4	4	7
T-10	Rajabali Shaidullaev	4	5	5
T-10	Luca Borando	4	4	5
T-31	Jean Silva	3	7	8
T-31	Brian Ortega	3	8	12
T-31	Giga Chikadze	3	8	14
T-31	Luke Riley	3	6	6
T-31	Jamall Emmers	3	6	11
T-31	Jose Delgado	3	5	7
T-31	Julian Erosa	3	7	15
T-31	Lerone Murphy	3	9	11
T-31	Darren Elkins	3	18	29
T-31	Julio Arce	3	5	7
T-31	Sean Woodson	3	9	11
T-31	Frankie Edgar	3	8	13
T-31	Sodiq Yusuff	3	8	11
T-31	Rony Jason	3	5	10
T-31	Karshyga Dautbek	3	5	6
T-31	Hiroaki Suzuki	3	5	5
T-31	Ryo Takagi	3	5	8
T-31	Gabriel Braga	3	9	12
T-31	Kyoma Akimoto	3	6	6
T-50	Arnold Allen	2	12	15
T-50	Melquizael Costa	2	7	8
T-50	Hyder Amil	2	4	7
T-50	Charles Jourdain	2	6	12
T-50	Kyle Nelson	2	4	8
T-50	Jack Jenkins	2	5	8
T-50	Dan Hooker	2	3	7
T-50	Edson Barboza	2	4	8
T-50	David Onama	2	5	7
T-50	Chase Hooper	2	4	7
T-50	Jonathan Pearce	2	5	8
T-50	Zubaira Tukhugov	2	5	8
T-50	Dustin Poirier	2	8	11
T-50	Chas Skelly	2	8	11
T-50	Shane Burgos	2	8	11
T-50	Alex Caceres	2	11	20
T-50	Robert Peralta	2	4	7
T-50	Sam Sicilia	2	4	11
T-50	Diego Brandao	2	5	9
T-50	Chris Wade	2	6	10
T-50	Mirsad Bektic	2	6	10
T-50	Teruto Ishihara	2	3	6
T-50	Steven Nguyen	2	3	5
T-50	Vladimír Lengál	2	2	5
T-50	Jakub Batfalský	2	5	7
T-50	Marco Novák	2	3	6
T-50	Jakub Tichota	2	5	8
T-50	James Hendin	2	3	5
T-50	Kyohei Hagiwara	2	3	8
T-50	Brahyam Zurcher	2	4	5
T-50	Suguru Nii	2	2	5
T-50	Ren Sugiyama	2	2	5
T-50	Abdullah Al-Qahtani	2	4	6
T-50	Pedro Dantas	2	4	5
T-50	Solomon Simon	2	5	5
T-85	William Gomis	1	5	7
T-85	Bryce Mitchell	1	8	11
T-85	Michael Aswell Jr.	1	3	5
T-85	Lucas Almeida	1	2	6
T-85	Ricardo Ramos	1	4	10
T-85	Muhammad Naimov	1	4	8
T-85	Bogdan Grad	1	2	5
T-85	Chepe Mariscal	1	4	5
T-85	Yadier del Valle	1	4	5
T-85	Francis Marshall	1	3	6
T-85	Danny Silva	1	4	5
T-85	Dennis Buzukja	1	2	7
T-85	Nate Landwehr	1	5	11
T-85	Damon Jackson	1	6	12
T-85	Makwan Amirkhani	1	7	14
T-85	Steven Peterson	1	3	8

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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