Best significant strike defence

Name: Best significant strike defence
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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	Vaughan Lee	71.5%	442	7
2	David Martinez	71.0%	590	5
3	SuYoung You	70.4%	372	5
4	Aiemann Zahabi	69.2%	1,516	10
5	Francisco Rivera	68.0%	952	10
6	Joe Soto	67.1%	1,146	7
7	Miles Johns	66.8%	1,281	11
8	Erik Perez	66.7%	568	9
9	Daniel Marcos	65.9%	922	8
10	Raphael Assuncao	65.8%	1,818	18
11	Dominick Cruz	65.8%	1,721	10
12	Chris Gutierrez	65.5%	1,249	12
13	Ivan Menjivar	65.4%	483	7
14	Javid Basharat	64.8%	844	9
15	Urijah Faber	64.7%	1,777	17
16	Yves Jabouin	64.3%	723	9
17	John Dodson	63.4%	1,277	9
18	Alejandro Perez	63.3%	900	11
19	Johnny Bedford	63.3%	188	5
20	Johnny Eduardo	63.0%	603	8
21	Farid Basharat	63.0%	778	8
22	Jose Quinonez	62.7%	659	8
23	TJ Dillashaw	62.4%	1,971	16
24	Mitch Gagnon	61.9%	452	8
25	Mike Easton	61.8%	1,117	7
26	Rinya Nakamura	61.7%	243	5
27	Alex Caceres	61.6%	644	9
28	Eddie Wineland	61.5%	1,712	16
29	Sergey Morozov	61.3%	476	5
30	Thomas Almeida	61.2%	954	9
31	Montel Jackson	60.9%	588	15
32	Casey Kenney	60.7%	889	6
33	Raoni Barcelos	60.5%	2,148	15
34	Sean O'Malley	60.3%	1,594	16
35	Scott Jorgensen	60.3%	1,014	8
36	Ricky Simon	60.2%	2,292	18
37	Petr Yan	60.1%	3,326	17
38	Jimmie Rivera	59.9%	1,270	10
39	Umar Nurmagomedov	59.8%	612	10
40	Ricardo Ramos	59.8%	482	5
41	Taylor Lapilus	59.7%	1,080	11
42	Cody Stamann	59.7%	1,183	11
43	George Roop	59.0%	415	6
44	Kyler Phillips	58.9%	1,291	11
45	Cody Garbrandt	58.8%	1,516	16
46	Cameron Smotherman	58.5%	412	5
47	Leandro Issa	58.2%	479	5
48	Takeya Mizugaki	58.1%	1,235	14
49	Renan Barao	58.1%	1,714	13
50	Randy Costa	58.0%	481	6
51	Jack Shore	57.9%	411	6
52	Kyung Ho Kang	57.7%	1,040	12
53	Rob Font	57.6%	2,053	19
54	Michael McDonald	57.2%	528	9
55	Vinicius Oliveira	57.1%	457	6
56	John Castaneda	57.0%	924	7
57	Brad Pickett	57.0%	1,133	10
58	Aljamain Sterling	57.0%	1,360	18
59	Albert Morales	56.8%	681	6
60	Anthony Birchak	56.8%	266	6
61	Adrian Yanez	56.6%	1,032	12
62	Heili Alateng	56.5%	1,550	10
63	Benito Lopez	56.2%	628	5
64	Cristian Quinonez	56.2%	404	5
65	Pedro Munhoz	56.1%	3,555	20
66	Muin Gafurov	55.9%	433	6
67	Nathaniel Wood	55.9%	408	5
68	Louis Smolka	55.9%	555	7
69	Jonathan Martinez	55.7%	1,582	13
70	Hugo Viana	55.6%	367	5
71	Vince Morales	55.6%	1,348	13
72	Douglas Silva de Andrade	55.5%	998	9
73	Matthew Lopez	55.4%	567	6
74	Song Yadong	55.3%	1,700	16
75	Johnny Munoz	55.1%	361	5
76	Andre Ewell	55.1%	911	7
77	Marcus McGhee	55.0%	480	5
78	Cody Gibson	54.8%	850	11
79	John Lineker	54.8%	1,019	9
80	Davey Grant	54.2%	1,670	16
81	Marlon Moraes	54.2%	851	11
82	Mario Bautista	54.1%	1,422	15
83	Brian Kelleher	54.1%	739	11
84	Damian Stasiak	54.0%	461	5
85	Sergio Pettis	54.0%	865	9
86	Cory Sandhagen	54.0%	1,934	15
87	Said Nurmagomedov	53.9%	395	10
88	Bryan Caraway	53.7%	956	9
89	Luke Sanders	53.6%	319	5
90	Brett Johns	53.4%	728	7
91	Russell Doane	53.3%	272	7
92	Henry Briones	53.2%	513	5
93	Malcolm Wellmaker	52.5%	179	5
94	Henry Cejudo	52.4%	1,138	7
95	Ricky Turcios	52.3%	642	6
96	Merab Dvalishvili	52.3%	1,994	17
97	Da'Mon Blackshear	52.2%	889	10
98	Chad Anheliger	52.2%	617	7
99	Frankie Saenz	52.2%	945	10
100	Jose Aldo	52.0%	1,419	8

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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Unofficial statistics compiled by UFCalendar from every completed fight in our database. Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics and rate boards at least 50 attempts; BKFC is ranked only on its own boards.

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