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 22, 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	Derrick Lewis	16	20	32
2	Francis Ngannou	11	13	15
T-3	Cain Velasquez	10	12	15
T-3	Junior Dos Santos	10	15	23
T-5	Andrei Arlovski	9	23	41
T-5	Mirko Filipovic	9	11	17
T-5	Stipe Miocic	9	14	19
T-5	Alistair Overeem	9	12	20
T-5	Denis Goltsov	9	14	18
T-10	Curtis Blaydes	8	15	21
T-10	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	8	9	15
T-10	Matt Mitrione	8	9	14
T-10	Pavel Dailidko	8	8	9
T-14	Sergei Pavlovich	7	9	12
T-14	Tai Tuivasa	7	8	19
T-14	Pedro Rizzo	7	9	14
T-14	Gabriel Gonzaga	7	12	22
T-14	Cheick Kongo	7	11	18
T-14	Travis Browne	7	9	17
T-14	Roy Nelson	7	8	18
T-14	Mark Hunt	7	8	17
T-22	Alexander Volkov	6	14	19
T-22	Ante Delija	6	10	15
T-22	Waldo Cortes Acosta	6	11	15
T-22	Tom Aspinall	6	8	9
T-22	Shawn Jordan	6	6	11
T-22	Walt Harris	6	6	15
T-22	Darko Stosic	6	7	9
T-22	Renan Ferreira	6	7	11
T-30	Ciryl Gane	5	11	13
T-30	Marcin Tybura	5	14	25
T-30	Martin Buday	5	13	16
T-30	Greg Hardy	5	6	12
T-30	Frank Mir	5	16	27
T-30	Ricco Rodriguez	5	5	7
T-30	Tim Sylvia	5	9	13
T-30	Stefan Struve	5	13	24
T-30	Michal Martínek	5	8	12
T-30	Miha Frlic	5	5	6
T-40	Josh Hokit	4	5	5
T-40	Mario Pinto	4	5	5
T-40	Shamil Gaziev	4	6	9
T-40	Chris Daukaus	4	4	7
T-40	Randy Couture	4	9	13
T-40	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	4	8	12
T-40	Ben Rothwell	4	9	17
T-40	Justin Tafa	4	4	9
T-40	Don'Tale Mayes	4	6	14
T-40	Antoni Hardonk	4	4	8
T-40	Fabricio Werdum	4	12	18
T-40	Soa Palelei	4	4	7
T-40	Shane Carwin	4	4	6
T-40	Pat Barry	4	5	12
T-40	Štefan Vojčák	4	5	7
T-40	Bruno Cappelozza	4	6	8
T-40	Arkadiusz Wrzosek	4	5	7
T-40	Martin Batur	4	4	6
T-58	Serghei Spivac	3	9	16
T-58	Rizvan Kuniev	3	4	5
T-58	Tanner Boser	3	4	9
T-58	Vitor Belfort	3	4	5
T-58	Chase Sherman	3	4	15
T-58	Josh Parisian	3	4	10
T-58	Josh Barnett	3	6	9
T-58	Brandon Vera	3	4	7
T-58	Eddie Sanchez	3	3	6
T-58	Brendan Schaub	3	6	10
T-58	Todd Duffee	3	3	5
T-58	Antonio Silva	3	3	11
T-58	Alex Nicholson	3	3	6
T-58	Juan Adams	3	3	7
T-58	Adam Pałasz	3	4	8
T-58	Lazar Todev	3	7	9
T-58	Hatef Moeil	3	6	7
T-58	Patrick Vespaziani	3	3	6
T-58	Muhammed DeReese	3	4	8
T-58	Abraham Bably	3	4	6
T-58	Mikio Ueda	3	3	5
T-58	Sulim Batalov	3	5	6
T-58	Andre Miranda	3	4	5
T-58	Miran Fabjan	3	3	5
T-82	Tallison Teixeira	2	3	5
T-82	Jhonata Diniz	2	4	6
T-82	Junior Tafa	2	2	5
T-82	Kennedy Nzechukwu	2	2	5
T-82	Chris Barnett	2	2	6
T-82	Jailton Almeida	2	6	10
T-82	Shamil Abdurakhimov	2	5	11
T-82	Philipe Lins	2	3	5
T-82	Augusto Sakai	2	5	12
T-82	Mike Kyle	2	2	5
T-82	Ian Freeman	2	3	6
T-82	Paul Buentello	2	3	6
T-82	Brock Lesnar	2	4	7
T-82	Mike Russow	2	4	6
T-82	Joey Beltran	2	3	7
T-82	Jared Rosholt	2	12	16
T-82	Anthony Hamilton	2	3	10
T-82	Daniel Omielanczuk	2	4	9
T-82	Timothy Johnson	2	5	11

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.