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 29, 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	Chuck Liddell	9	13	19
2	Mauricio Rua	8	11	24
T-3	Alonzo Menifield	7	14	21
T-3	Magomed Ankalaev	7	13	16
T-3	Khalil Rountree Jr.	7	10	16
T-3	Carlos Ulberg	7	11	12
T-3	Dustin Jacoby	7	11	17
T-8	Dominick Reyes	6	10	15
T-8	Azamat Murzakanov	6	7	8
T-8	Ovince Saint Preux	6	15	26
T-8	Glover Teixeira	6	16	23
T-8	Rashad Evans	6	13	20
T-8	Thiago Silva	6	7	10
T-8	Johnny Walker	6	9	16
T-15	Alex Pereira	5	6	7
T-15	Jiri Prochazka	5	6	9
T-15	Kennedy Nzechukwu	5	8	13
T-15	Jan Blachowicz	5	12	23
T-15	Volkan Oezdemir	5	9	16
T-15	Impa Kasanganay	5	8	11
T-15	Tito Ortiz	5	12	23
T-15	Jamahal Hill	5	7	11
T-15	Matt Hamill	5	10	15
T-15	Rich Franklin	5	5	7
T-15	Anthony Johnson	5	6	8
T-15	Jon Jones	5	20	21
T-15	Alexander Gustafsson	5	10	17
T-15	Jimi Manuwa	5	6	12
T-15	Daniel Škvor	5	9	13
T-15	Rafael Xavier	5	6	7
T-15	Tiriel Abramović	5	5	5
T-32	Modestas Bukauskas	4	8	13
T-32	Iwo Baraniewski	4	4	5
T-32	Ion Cuțelaba	4	9	21
T-32	Navajo Stirling	4	7	7
T-32	Nikita Krylov	4	10	19
T-32	Tyson Pedro	4	6	11
T-32	Gian Villante	4	7	15
T-32	Lyoto Machida	4	11	15
T-32	Ryan Bader	4	14	19
T-32	Rogerio Nogueira	4	6	13
T-32	Sean O'Connell	4	5	11
T-32	Emiliano Sordi	4	7	10
T-32	Jakob Nedoh	4	5	7
T-45	Rodolfo Bellato	3	3	7
T-45	Zhang Mingyang	3	3	5
T-45	Jimmy Crute	3	7	13
T-45	Ibo Aslan	3	3	6
T-45	Bogdan Guskov	3	4	7
T-45	Michal Oleksiejczuk	3	4	7
T-45	Ryan Spann	3	9	14
T-45	Thiago Santos	3	4	10
T-45	Anthony Smith	3	9	18
T-45	Mike Rodriguez	3	3	8
T-45	Vitor Belfort	3	3	7
T-45	William Knight	3	5	7
T-45	Maxim Grishin	3	4	8
T-45	James Irvin	3	4	8
T-45	Jason Lambert	3	4	7
T-45	Luiz Cane	3	4	8
T-45	Quinton Jackson	3	7	12
T-45	James Te Huna	3	5	9
T-45	Ilir Latifi	3	7	12
T-45	Rafal Haratyk	3	4	5
T-65	Diyar Nurgozhay	2	3	5
T-65	Vitor Petrino	2	5	7
T-65	Paul Craig	2	8	16
T-65	Aleksandar Rakic	2	6	11
T-65	Randy Couture	2	6	10
T-65	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	2	3	6
T-65	Da Woon Jung	2	4	9
T-65	Nicolae Negumereanu	2	4	6
T-65	Frank Shamrock	2	5	5
T-65	Wanderlei Silva	2	2	5
T-65	Vladimir Matyushenko	2	5	9
T-65	Alessio Sakara	2	3	6
T-65	Stephan Bonnar	2	8	14
T-65	Ed Herman	2	4	9
T-65	Anthony Perosh	2	5	9
T-65	Houston Alexander	2	2	5
T-65	Krzysztof Soszynski	2	6	9
T-65	Tim Boetsch	2	3	7
T-65	Igor Pokrajac	2	4	12
T-65	Karlos Vemola	2	7	9
T-65	Fabio Maldonado	2	5	9
T-65	Ryan Jimmo	2	3	7
T-65	Daniel Cormier	2	7	8
T-65	Patrick Cummins	2	6	13
T-65	Corey Anderson	2	10	15
T-65	Henrique da Silva	2	3	9
T-65	Jeremy Kimball	2	3	8
T-65	Ihor Potieria	2	2	5
T-65	Pavol Langer	2	6	11
T-65	Miloš Petrášek	2	3	8
T-65	Alexander Poppeck	2	5	7
T-65	Dan Spohn	2	4	7
T-65	Bozigit Ataev	2	3	8
T-65	Anderson Goncalves	2	2	7
T-65	Edil Esengulov	2	4	5
T-65	Tomislav Spahović	2	3	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.