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	Matěj Peňáz	9	10	11
T-2	Thiago Santos	8	10	15
T-2	Anderson Silva	8	14	20
T-2	Uriah Hall	8	10	18
T-5	Edmen Shahbazyan	7	11	17
T-5	Gregory Rodrigues	7	11	15
T-5	Derek Brunson	7	14	21
T-5	Chris Leben	7	12	22
T-5	Michael Bisping	7	16	24
T-5	Yoel Romero	7	9	13
T-11	Nate Marquardt	6	13	23
T-11	Vlasto Cepo	6	6	8
T-13	Ateba Gautier	5	6	6
T-13	Roman Kopylov	5	7	12
T-13	Joe Pyfer	5	8	10
T-13	Christian Leroy Duncan	5	8	10
T-13	Michal Oleksiejczuk	5	6	11
T-13	Israel Adesanya	5	13	18
T-13	Makhmud Muradov	5	9	11
T-13	Vitor Belfort	5	7	12
T-13	Robert Whittaker	5	14	19
T-13	Jared Cannonier	5	8	14
T-13	Jorge Rivera	5	8	15
T-13	Nate Quarry	5	7	10
T-13	Yushin Okami	5	13	18
T-13	Tim Boetsch	5	9	17
T-13	Gegard Mousasi	5	8	11
T-13	Piotr Kuberski	5	5	5
T-29	Joaquin Buckley	4	5	9
T-29	Cody Brundage	4	6	14
T-29	Yousri Belgaroui	4	4	5
T-29	Robert Bryczek	4	4	7
T-29	Nassourdine Imavov	4	9	10
T-29	Brunno Ferreira	4	7	12
T-29	Roman Dolidze	4	6	11
T-29	Paulo Costa	4	7	10
T-29	Sam Alvey	4	8	16
T-29	Evan Tanner	4	8	12
T-29	David Loiseau	4	4	9
T-29	Rich Franklin	4	7	10
T-29	Alan Belcher	4	7	13
T-29	Mark Munoz	4	9	14
T-29	Chris Weidman	4	12	18
T-29	Jacare Souza	4	9	15
T-29	Dricus Du Plessis	4	10	11
T-29	Naglis Kanišauskas	4	4	6
T-29	Andi Vrtacic	4	4	5
T-29	Bruno Silva	4	4	11
T-49	Marco Tulio	3	4	6
T-49	Alex Pereira	3	4	5
T-49	Bo Nickal	3	8	9
T-49	Kevin Holland	3	10	16
T-49	Punahele Soriano	3	4	8
T-49	Abus Magomedov	3	9	12
T-49	Cam Rowston	3	4	5
T-49	Dusko Todorovic	3	5	12
T-49	Kelvin Gastelum	3	8	16
T-49	Mansur Abdul-Malik	3	5	7
T-49	Jack Hermansson	3	11	18
T-49	Ikram Aliskerov	3	7	8
T-49	Chidi Njokuani	3	3	6
T-49	Marc-Andre Barriault	3	5	15
T-49	Eryk Anders	3	7	14
T-49	Chris Curtis	3	5	9
T-49	Anthony Smith	3	4	7
T-49	Phil Hawes	3	5	10
T-49	Dan Henderson	3	5	9
T-49	Matt Lindland	3	8	11
T-49	Lyoto Machida	3	5	9
T-49	Drew McFedries	3	3	8
T-49	Brian Stann	3	4	6
T-49	Constantinos Philippou	3	6	9
T-49	Luke Rockhold	3	6	10
T-49	Vitor Miranda	3	3	6
T-49	Claudio Ribeiro	3	3	6
T-49	Nursulton Ruziboev	3	5	6
T-49	Jaime Cordero	3	6	7
T-49	David Hošek	3	5	11
T-49	Kerim Engizek	3	6	8
T-49	Dominik Humburger	3	4	6
T-49	Marek Mazúch	3	4	7
T-49	Radovan Úškrt	3	3	6
T-83	Sean Strickland	2	11	15
T-83	Brendan Allen	2	15	18
T-83	Dustin Stoltzfus	2	5	12
T-83	Brad Tavares	2	16	28
T-83	Shara Magomedov	2	6	7
T-83	Cesar Almeida	2	4	7
T-83	Anthony Hernandez	2	9	13
T-83	Krzysztof Jotko	2	16	22
T-83	Alessio Di Chirico	2	4	11
T-83	Abdul Razak Alhassan	2	2	6
T-83	Darren Stewart	2	5	9
T-83	Trevin Giles	2	4	7
T-83	Maki Pitolo	2	2	6
T-83	Phil Baroni	2	3	9
T-83	Wanderlei Silva	2	3	5
T-83	Eugene Jackson	2	3	7
T-83	Alessio Sakara	2	3	8
T-83	Mike Swick	2	5	6

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.