Strikes absorbed per minute

Name: Strikes absorbed per minute
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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 November 6, 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
1	Randy Costa	7.58	26.6	6
2	Pedro Munhoz	6.41	243.4	20
3	Louis Smolka	6.40	38.3	7
4	Marlon Vera	5.51	321.9	24
5	Joe Soto	5.45	69.2	7
6	Brad Pickett	5.23	93.1	10
7	Adrian Yanez	5.22	85.8	12
8	Jake Hadley	5.19	72.3	5
9	Benito Lopez	5.18	53.1	5
10	Victor Henry	5.15	81.3	6
11	Caolan Loughran	5.12	66.8	5
12	Jean Matsumoto	5.11	85.0	6
13	Heili Alateng	4.96	135.8	10
14	Mana Martinez	4.94	62.4	5
15	Thomas Almeida	4.94	75.0	9
16	Henry Cejudo	4.94	109.8	7
17	Jose Aldo	4.92	138.4	8
18	Brad Katona	4.78	131.1	9
19	Kholmurod Nurmatov	4.71	73.3	7
20	Henry Briones	4.68	51.3	5
21	Marlon Moraes	4.53	86.2	11
22	Casey Kenney	4.47	78.1	6
23	Tony Gravely	4.47	100.0	9
24	Brian Kelleher	4.46	76.1	11
25	Scott Jorgensen	4.44	90.9	8
26	Xiao Long	4.43	72.5	6
27	Eddie Wineland	4.36	151.0	16
28	John Castaneda	4.35	91.4	7
29	Douglas Silva de Andrade	4.33	102.6	9
30	Petr Yan	4.32	307.1	17
31	Andre Soukhamthath	4.31	96.1	7
32	Mike Easton	4.28	99.9	7
33	Andre Ewell	4.25	96.2	7
34	Batgerel Danaa	4.21	57.8	7
35	Da'Mon Blackshear	4.19	101.5	10
36	Jimmie Rivera	4.17	122.0	10
37	Mario Bautista	4.17	156.4	15
38	Cameron Saaiman	4.14	67.6	7
39	Jonathan Martinez	4.13	169.7	13
40	John Lineker	4.12	118.6	9
41	Davey Grant	4.12	183.2	15
42	Cory Sandhagen	4.11	216.7	15
43	Renan Barao	4.10	175.3	13
44	Raoni Barcelos	4.09	207.4	15
45	Ricky Simon	4.09	223.3	18
46	Aiemann Zahabi	4.06	115.2	10
47	Luke Sanders	4.02	36.9	5
48	Bryan Caraway	3.99	110.9	9
49	Cody Stamann	3.98	119.8	11
50	Albert Morales	3.96	74.2	6
51	Saimon Oliveira	3.87	50.9	5
52	Marcus McGhee	3.87	55.8	5
53	Brett Johns	3.84	88.4	7
54	Kyler Phillips	3.83	138.3	11
55	Dustin Kimura	3.82	48.1	5
56	Ryusei Ashizawa	3.78	44.7	7
57	Aoriqileng	3.78	62.0	8
58	Roland Delorme	3.78	61.5	6
59	Shinobu Ota	3.75	59.8	7
60	Matthew Lopez	3.73	67.8	6
61	John Dodson	3.72	125.9	9
62	Ricky Turcios	3.72	82.4	6
63	Cristian Quinonez	3.71	47.7	5
64	Moktar Benkaci	3.69	61.0	5
65	Brady Hiestand	3.67	65.3	5
66	Anthony Birchak	3.67	31.3	6
67	Cody Garbrandt	3.66	170.7	16
68	Rob Font	3.65	238.1	19
69	Song Yadong	3.65	208.4	16
70	Damian Stasiak	3.60	58.9	5
71	Vince Morales	3.59	173.9	13
72	Malcolm Wellmaker	3.56	23.9	5
73	Cameron Smotherman	3.56	48.1	5
74	Sergio Pettis	3.50	139.2	9
75	Frankie Saenz	3.50	129.3	10
76	Deiveson Figueiredo	3.50	115.0	9
77	Pavel Vitruk	3.43	89.9	5
78	Cody Gibson	3.42	112.2	11
79	Trevin Jones	3.42	80.4	6
80	Jakub Wiklacz	3.42	82.5	5
81	Sean O'Malley	3.41	185.5	16
82	TJ Dillashaw	3.39	218.3	16
83	Payton Talbott	3.38	78.8	8
84	Ali Taleb	3.35	54.0	7
85	Nathaniel Wood	3.30	54.5	5
86	Ricardo Ramos	3.26	59.4	5
87	Iuri Alcantara	3.26	127.1	14
88	Johnny Eduardo	3.22	69.2	8
89	Dominick Cruz	3.21	183.3	10
90	Takeya Mizugaki	3.20	161.6	14
91	Murad Kalamov	3.20	99.2	7
92	Filip Macek	3.19	104.5	13
93	Leandro Issa	3.17	63.0	5
94	Francisco Rivera	3.12	97.7	10
95	Borislav Nikolić	3.12	66.9	7
96	Hugo Viana	3.12	52.3	5
97	Jose Quinonez	3.09	79.6	8
98	Daniel Marcos	3.08	101.9	8
99	Merab Dvalishvili	3.08	309.1	17
100	Edwin Figueroa	3.06	75.2	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.

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