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 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	Best significant strike defence	Opponent attempts	Bouts
1	Vaughan Lee	71.5%	442	7
2	David Martinez	71.0%	590	5
3	Aiemann Zahabi	69.2%	1,516	10
4	Francisco Rivera	68.0%	952	10
5	Joe Soto	67.1%	1,146	7
6	Miles Johns	66.8%	1,281	11
7	Erik Perez	66.7%	568	9
8	Raphael Assuncao	65.8%	1,818	18
9	Dominick Cruz	65.8%	1,721	10
10	Daniel Marcos	65.6%	881	7
11	Javid Basharat	65.5%	714	8
12	Chris Gutierrez	65.5%	1,249	12
13	Ivan Menjivar	65.4%	483	7
14	Urijah Faber	64.7%	1,777	17
15	Yves Jabouin	64.3%	723	9
16	Taylor Lapilus	64.2%	710	8
17	Gustavo Lopez	64.0%	261	6
18	John Dodson	63.4%	1,277	9
19	Alejandro Perez	63.3%	900	11
20	Johnny Bedford	63.3%	188	5
21	Johnny Eduardo	63.0%	603	8
22	Farid Basharat	63.0%	778	8
23	Jose Quinonez	62.7%	659	8
24	TJ Dillashaw	62.4%	1,971	16
25	Mitch Gagnon	61.9%	452	8
26	Mike Easton	61.8%	1,117	7
27	Sergio Pettis	61.7%	741	6
28	Alex Caceres	61.6%	644	9
29	Eddie Wineland	61.5%	1,712	16
30	Sergey Morozov	61.3%	476	5
31	Raoni Barcelos	61.3%	1,897	14
32	Thomas Almeida	61.2%	954	9
33	Casey Kenney	60.7%	889	6
34	Ricky Simon	60.6%	2,236	17
35	Sean O'Malley	60.3%	1,594	16
36	Scott Jorgensen	60.3%	1,014	8
37	Montel Jackson	60.2%	545	14
38	Jimmie Rivera	59.9%	1,270	10
39	Umar Nurmagomedov	59.8%	612	10
40	Ricardo Ramos	59.8%	482	5
41	Cody Stamann	59.7%	1,183	11
42	Petr Yan	59.6%	2,963	16
43	George Roop	59.0%	415	6
44	Kyler Phillips	58.9%	1,291	11
45	Borislav Nikolić	58.8%	102	7
46	Cody Garbrandt	58.8%	1,516	16
47	Cameron Smotherman	58.5%	412	5
48	Leandro Issa	58.2%	479	5
49	Takeya Mizugaki	58.1%	1,235	14
50	Renan Barao	58.1%	1,714	13
51	Randy Costa	58.0%	481	6
52	Jack Shore	57.9%	411	6
53	Kyung Ho Kang	57.7%	1,040	12
54	Rob Font	57.6%	2,053	19
55	Heili Alateng	57.3%	1,449	9
56	Michael McDonald	57.2%	528	9
57	Vinicius Oliveira	57.1%	457	6
58	Brad Pickett	57.0%	1,133	10
59	Aljamain Sterling	57.0%	1,360	18
60	Albert Morales	56.8%	681	6
61	Anthony Birchak	56.8%	266	6
62	Adrian Yanez	56.6%	1,032	12
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	John Castaneda	54.4%	809	6
81	Davey Grant	54.4%	1,652	15
82	Marlon Moraes	54.2%	851	11
83	Mario Bautista	54.1%	1,422	15
84	Brian Kelleher	54.1%	739	11
85	Damian Stasiak	54.0%	461	5
86	Cory Sandhagen	54.0%	1,934	15
87	Said Nurmagomedov	53.9%	395	10
88	Chad Anheliger	53.9%	529	6
89	Bryan Caraway	53.7%	956	9
90	Luke Sanders	53.6%	319	5
91	Brett Johns	53.4%	728	7
92	Merab Dvalishvili	53.3%	1,766	16
93	Russell Doane	53.3%	272	7
94	Henry Briones	53.2%	513	5
95	Raul Rosas Jr.	52.7%	226	8
96	Henry Cejudo	52.4%	1,138	7
97	Ricky Turcios	52.3%	642	6
98	Da'Mon Blackshear	52.2%	889	10
99	Frankie Saenz	52.2%	945	10
100	Caolan Loughran	52.1%	651	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.

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.

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.