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	Shozo Isojima	7.46	20.8	5
2	Carlos Alexandre da Costa	7.35	32.3	5
3	Mike Breeden	7.28	45.8	5
4	Tomáš Fiala	7.23	25.6	5
5	Justin Gaethje	6.83	202.2	16
6	Frank Camacho	6.56	31.1	5
7	Maheshate	6.46	71.4	7
8	Yancy Medeiros	6.36	90.0	10
9	Nasrat Haqparast	6.18	191.0	16
10	Daniel Zellhuber	6.17	108.4	8
11	Nazim Sadykhov	6.03	62.5	8
12	Ricky Glenn	5.98	34.8	5
13	Elves Brener	5.86	76.1	6
14	Esteban Ribovics	5.77	97.2	10
15	Ramazan Gitinov	5.74	22.0	5
16	Gauge Young	5.73	75.0	5
17	Thibault Gouti	5.64	48.9	6
18	Rongzhu	5.63	95.5	7
19	Gabriel Benitez	5.56	51.1	5
20	Nikolas Motta	5.50	53.0	7
21	Marco Polo Reyes	5.45	42.4	7
22	Joe Lauzon	5.39	213.0	27
23	František Fodor	5.29	58.4	8
24	Dustin Poirier	5.27	236.5	20
25	MarQuel Mederos	5.20	71.4	6
26	Chris Gruetzemacher	5.17	66.0	6
27	Bolaji Oki	5.11	58.9	6
28	Lando Vannata	5.04	139.8	12
29	Donald Cerrone	4.99	222.1	23
30	Jan Malach	4.87	59.8	5
31	Damien Brown	4.86	66.1	6
32	Rafael Fiziev	4.81	150.0	13
33	Dan Hooker	4.80	184.0	18
34	Terrance McKinney	4.76	34.5	14
35	Michael Chandler	4.75	82.7	8
36	Takanori Gomi	4.74	89.3	13
37	James Krause	4.70	85.1	8
38	Bruno Miranda	4.69	62.2	6
39	Jared Gordon	4.69	144.5	14
40	Rafa Garcia	4.68	164.0	12
41	TJ Grant	4.64	49.2	5
42	Eddie Alvarez	4.63	95.0	8
43	Chris Duncan	4.57	77.0	10
44	Devonte Smith	4.56	34.6	6
45	Al Iaquinta	4.55	187.7	14
46	Connor Hughes	4.54	81.9	8
47	Andre Winner	4.46	52.0	5
48	Viacheslav Borshchev	4.46	115.8	11
49	Khama Worthy	4.45	22.2	5
50	Chris Padilla	4.43	83.3	7
51	Jan Široký	4.42	110.8	9
52	Mason Jones	4.42	122.6	10
53	Erik Koch	4.42	42.8	5
54	Thiago Moises	4.40	186.2	17
55	Ignacio Bahamondes	4.38	96.7	9
56	Artem Reznikov	4.37	68.0	5
57	Edson Barboza	4.36	269.1	25
58	Tony Ferguson	4.34	246.0	21
59	Attila Korkmaz	4.32	83.6	5
60	Jamie Mullarkey	4.28	121.8	13
61	George Hardwick	4.26	76.3	5
62	Marek Bartl	4.26	70.9	6
63	Mike Davis	4.25	99.9	8
64	Kurt Holobaugh	4.24	69.3	6
65	Abdul-Rakhman Dudaev	4.24	67.7	5
66	Manuel Torres	4.24	22.7	8
67	Mateusz Rębecki	4.21	93.1	9
68	Dong Hyun Ma	4.19	72.3	7
69	Kyle Nelson	4.19	37.2	5
70	Joaquim Silva	4.17	131.0	12
71	Justin Buchholz	4.14	37.9	5
72	John Makdessi	4.13	237.8	19
73	Ozan Aslaner	4.11	50.6	5
74	Ottman Azaitar	4.11	18.7	5
75	Jalin Turner	4.11	87.0	14
76	Austin Hubbard	4.10	156.5	12
77	Guram Kutateladze	4.08	76.0	6
78	Ismael Bonfim	4.08	65.8	8
79	Sam Stout	4.06	237.9	19
80	Teddy Stringer	4.05	18.0	6
81	Amirkhan Adaev	4.04	58.9	5
82	Michael Johnson	4.03	300.3	27
83	Herdeson Batista	4.02	56.7	5
84	Marcus Aurelio	4.02	64.8	6
85	Ross Pearson	3.98	246.6	21
86	Alexander Hernandez	3.98	155.3	16
87	Mark Madsen	3.97	63.0	6
88	Gino van Steenis	3.95	50.7	5
89	Drew Dober	3.93	184.2	24
90	Simone Patrizi	3.91	61.7	6
91	Paddy Pimblett	3.86	88.4	9
92	King Green	3.84	303.4	29
93	Lucas Caio	3.80	30.5	5
94	Joe Duffy	3.78	62.7	8
95	Aaron Riley	3.77	75.4	7
96	Wilson Varela	3.77	22.3	5
97	Matt Frevola	3.76	109.0	13
98	Jon Tuck	3.74	107.9	9
99	Damir Hadzovic	3.74	98.7	10
100	Chad Laprise	3.73	49.3	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.

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