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 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 knockouts	Wins	Bouts
1	Drew Dober	11	14	24
2	Dustin Poirier	9	14	20
T-3	Justin Gaethje	7	11	16
T-3	Jalin Turner	7	9	14
T-3	Edson Barboza	7	14	25
T-3	Melvin Guillard	7	11	19
T-7	Jim Miller	6	25	43
T-7	Michael Johnson	6	14	27
T-7	BJ Penn	6	10	16
T-7	Joe Lauzon	6	15	27
T-7	Donald Cerrone	6	17	23
T-7	Ronald Paradeiser	6	14	19
T-13	King Green	5	16	28
T-13	Manuel Torres	5	6	8
T-13	Alexander Hernandez	5	10	15
T-13	Diego Ferreira	5	11	18
T-13	Benoit Saint Denis	5	9	12
T-13	Dan Hooker	5	11	18
T-13	Terrance McKinney	5	8	14
T-13	Arman Tsarukyan	5	11	13
T-13	Yves Edwards	5	10	19
T-13	Ross Pearson	5	10	21
T-13	Mairbek Taisumov	5	7	9
T-13	Kayla Harrison	5	11	12
T-13	Salahdine Parnasse	5	5	5
T-13	Biaggio Ali Walsh	5	6	7
T-27	Jeremy Stephens	4	8	21
T-27	Joel Álvarez	4	7	9
T-27	Maurício Ruffy	4	4	6
T-27	Rafael Fiziev	4	8	13
T-27	Charles Oliveira	4	18	24
T-27	Nazim Sadykhov	4	5	8
T-27	Losene Keita	4	7	7
T-27	Tony Ferguson	4	14	21
T-27	Francisco Trinaldo	4	15	21
T-27	Rafael Dos Anjos	4	15	24
T-27	Al Iaquinta	4	9	14
T-27	Paul Felder	4	9	14
T-27	Larissa Pacheco	4	6	7
T-27	Gregor Gillespie	4	7	8
T-27	Karol Ryšavý	4	8	13
T-27	Leo Brichta	4	7	10
T-27	Gadzhi Rabadanov	4	6	7
T-27	Connor Hughes	4	5	8
T-45	Matt Frevola	3	6	13
T-45	Mateusz Gamrot	3	9	14
T-45	Joaquim Silva	3	7	12
T-45	Viacheslav Borshchev	3	4	11
T-45	Quillan Salkilld	3	7	7
T-45	Beneil Dariush	3	17	26
T-45	Ludovit Klein	3	9	12
T-45	Ignacio Bahamondes	3	5	9
T-45	Esteban Ribovics	3	6	9
T-45	Devonte Smith	3	3	6
T-45	Kevin Lee	3	11	17
T-45	Thiago Tavares	3	11	18
T-45	Roger Huerta	3	6	8
T-45	Dennis Siver	3	8	12
T-45	Abel Trujillo	3	6	10
T-45	Daron Cruickshank	3	6	12
T-45	Olivier Aubin-Mercier	3	16	20
T-45	Magomed Mustafaev	3	3	5
T-45	Marco Polo Reyes	3	4	7
T-45	František Fodor	3	4	8
T-45	Miroslav Štrbák	3	5	6
T-45	Mateusz Legierski	3	10	11
T-45	Sayfullah Dzhabrailov	3	4	5
T-45	Marko Bojković	3	5	5
T-69	Grant Dawson	2	8	11
T-69	Mateusz Rębecki	2	5	9
T-69	Jared Gordon	2	6	14
T-69	Jordan Leavitt	2	6	9
T-69	Farès Ziam	2	8	12
T-69	Tom Nolan	2	6	7
T-69	Michael Chandler	2	2	8
T-69	Jamie Mullarkey	2	6	13
T-69	Kaue Fernandes	2	3	5
T-69	Mason Jones	2	7	10
T-69	Paddy Pimblett	2	8	9
T-69	Islam Makhachev	2	15	16
T-69	Chris Padilla	2	6	7
T-69	Nasrat Haqparast	2	10	16
T-69	Thiago Moises	2	9	17
T-69	Gilbert Burns	2	7	10
T-69	Jai Herbert	2	4	10
T-69	MarQuel Mederos	2	5	6
T-69	Renato Moicano	2	8	11
T-69	Clay Guida	2	15	30
T-69	Drakkar Klose	2	10	14
T-69	Marc Diakiese	2	8	16
T-69	Nikolas Motta	2	4	7
T-69	Gabriel Benitez	2	2	5
T-69	Leonardo Santos	2	6	10
T-69	Frankie Edgar	2	9	13
T-69	Josh Thomson	2	3	7
T-69	Hermes Franca	2	5	10
T-69	Jens Pulver	2	6	9
T-69	Spencer Fisher	2	7	15
T-69	Matt Wiman	2	10	18
T-69	Kenny Florian	2	9	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.

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.