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 8, 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	Henrique da Silva	7.18	80.9	9
2	Ike Villanueva	6.78	19.3	5
3	Ihor Potieria	6.56	27.8	5
4	Rodolfo Bellato	5.89	72.2	7
5	Mateusz Strzelczyk	5.83	30.9	6
6	Gian Villante	5.76	165.1	15
7	Jiri Prochazka	5.67	92.3	9
8	Ed Herman	5.63	102.9	9
9	Nicolae Negumereanu	5.56	58.6	6
10	Zhang Mingyang	5.55	20.0	5
11	Anthony Smith	5.53	186.8	18
12	Houston Alexander	5.37	10.3	5
13	David Heath	5.16	45.9	5
14	Vinicius Moreira	5.07	22.9	5
15	Iwo Baraniewski	4.97	18.7	5
16	Sean O'Connell	4.92	76.6	11
17	Damian Piwowarczyk	4.90	25.7	7
18	Kennedy Nzechukwu	4.90	125.0	13
19	Elvis Sinosic	4.80	45.8	6
20	Jakob Nedoh	4.70	58.5	9
21	Ivan Erslan	4.67	57.0	7
22	Delan Monte	4.67	20.1	5
23	Bruno Lopes	4.54	44.0	6
24	Michal Oleksiejczuk	4.53	47.1	7
25	Khalil Rountree Jr.	4.48	145.2	16
26	Glover Teixeira	4.47	265.1	23
27	Luiz Cane	4.43	38.8	8
28	Mike Rodriguez	4.38	61.1	8
29	Dustin Jacoby	4.31	164.4	17
30	Rafael Cavalcante	4.28	46.5	5
31	Gadzhimurad Antigulov	4.27	26.5	7
32	Aleksa Camur	4.26	65.8	5
33	Igor Pokrajac	4.24	106.0	12
34	Da Woon Jung	4.23	94.2	9
35	Volkan Oezdemir	4.19	150.6	16
36	Modestas Bukauskas	4.07	124.9	13
37	Jamahal Hill	4.05	122.6	11
38	Carlos Ulberg	4.03	85.7	12
39	Ryan Spann	4.00	76.1	14
40	Fabio Maldonado	3.98	119.9	9
41	Jimi Manuwa	3.97	84.3	12
42	Ibo Aslan	3.96	34.1	6
43	Alonzo Menifield	3.88	169.9	21
44	Kyle Kingsbury	3.81	102.2	9
45	Matt Hamill	3.80	154.9	15
46	Ovince Saint Preux	3.78	235.1	26
47	Artem Frolov	3.75	54.7	5
48	Jeremy Kimball	3.70	35.6	8
49	Karlos Vemola	3.70	97.9	9
50	James Irvin	3.69	23.8	8
51	Rafal Haratyk	3.69	66.9	5
52	Anthony Perosh	3.68	38.9	9
53	Jimmy Crute	3.65	81.9	13
54	Attila Végh	3.63	67.4	6
55	Pavol Langer	3.62	99.9	11
56	Thiago Silva	3.62	72.4	10
57	Julius Walker	3.59	45.4	5
58	Wilson Gouveia	3.56	41.0	6
59	Alexander Gustafsson	3.56	184.0	17
60	Eric Schafer	3.54	53.1	7
61	Sam Alvey	3.53	80.4	8
62	Bogdan Guskov	3.50	66.2	7
63	Anderson Goncalves	3.47	57.7	7
64	Mauricio Rua	3.46	264.8	24
65	Ion Cuțelaba	3.42	168.0	21
66	Devin Clark	3.36	175.5	15
67	Dominick Reyes	3.35	120.5	16
68	Patrick Cummins	3.35	116.8	13
69	Brendson Ribeiro	3.32	69.8	10
70	Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov	3.32	88.9	7
71	Alex Pereira	3.31	78.5	7
72	Misha Cirkunov	3.30	40.0	11
73	Azamat Murzakanov	3.28	69.0	9
74	Tim Boetsch	3.26	57.9	7
75	Anton Turkalj	3.26	45.8	5
76	Jan Blachowicz	3.23	294.9	23
77	Rogerio Nogueira	3.23	122.8	13
78	Keith Jardine	3.20	124.8	12
79	William Knight	3.19	80.9	7
80	Billy Elekana	3.17	65.4	6
81	Dan Henderson	3.16	121.7	8
82	Joshua Silveira	3.15	83.7	9
83	Marcin Prachnio	3.14	108.4	12
84	Ilir Latifi	3.09	89.0	12
85	Francimar Barroso	3.05	113.2	8
86	Quinton Jackson	3.04	170.3	12
87	Daniel Cormier	3.01	108.5	8
88	Krzysztof Soszynski	2.97	80.4	9
89	Johnny Walker	2.96	120.2	16
90	Paul Craig	2.94	120.8	16
91	Mohamed Said Maalem	2.94	63.3	5
92	Vitor Belfort	2.93	64.1	7
93	James Te Huna	2.93	55.4	9
94	Aleksandar Rakic	2.86	117.5	11
95	Thiago Santos	2.85	165.7	10
96	Tyson Pedro	2.84	99.0	13
97	Diyar Nurgozhay	2.81	37.8	5
98	Nikita Krylov	2.80	144.4	20
99	Jared Cannonier	2.78	60.1	5
100	Daniel Škvor	2.77	71.1	14

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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