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 21, 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	Enrique Barzola	69.3%	1,342	11
2	Steve Garcia	68.6%	287	7
3	Kevin Vallejos	68.4%	471	6
4	Julio Arce	68.0%	741	7
5	Chad Mendes	67.5%	1,021	14
6	Renato Moicano	66.5%	855	8
7	Zubaira Tukhugov	65.3%	799	8
8	Youssef Zalal	65.2%	762	12
9	Felipe Arantes	65.1%	853	8
10	Hatsu Hioki	65.0%	695	8
11	Zabit Magomedsharipov	64.9%	664	6
12	Losene Keita	64.9%	202	6
13	Frankie Edgar	64.7%	1,668	13
14	Maximo Blanco	64.7%	740	9
15	Gabriel Benitez	64.7%	966	10
16	Ilia Topuria	64.4%	820	7
17	Michihiro Omigawa	64.3%	779	5
18	Conor McGregor	64.2%	330	7
19	Nam Phan	63.8%	1,589	6
T-20	Sheymon Moraes	63.6%	627	11
T-20	Bobby Moffett	63.6%	297	5
22	Alex Caceres	63.2%	2,314	20
23	Robert Whiteford	63.0%	297	5
24	Clay Guida	62.8%	610	7
25	Josh Culibao	62.6%	705	7
26	Austin Arnett	62.3%	1,164	5
27	Mark Hominick	62.2%	738	5
28	Jose Aldo	62.1%	2,423	15
29	Diego Brandao	61.8%	636	9
30	William Gomis	61.6%	693	7
31	Myles Jury	61.6%	349	5
32	Jean Silva	61.4%	689	8
33	Danny Silva	61.3%	1,203	5
34	Luke Riley	61.1%	234	6
35	Movsar Evloev	61.0%	1,030	9
36	Steven Nguyen	60.9%	1,155	5
37	Lerone Murphy	60.4%	1,091	11
38	Arnold Allen	60.2%	1,719	15
39	Cole Miller	60.2%	1,264	9
40	Sean Woodson	60.1%	1,212	11
41	Bryce Mitchell	60.0%	508	11
42	Luis Saldana	60.0%	645	5
43	Dennis Siver	60.0%	702	7
44	Brandon Davis	59.9%	1,070	7
45	Max Holloway	59.7%	4,829	27
46	Sam Sicilia	59.5%	813	11
47	Alexander Volkanovski	59.4%	2,216	14
48	Dennis Bermudez	59.2%	1,381	15
49	Cub Swanson	59.2%	3,227	25
50	Giga Chikadze	59.1%	1,468	14
51	Dustin Poirier	59.0%	821	11
52	Charles Jourdain	58.9%	1,349	12
53	Josh Emmett	58.5%	1,881	14
54	Jack Jenkins	58.5%	785	8
55	Kyle Bochniak	58.1%	1,283	9
56	Jimy Hettes	57.9%	527	6
57	Mirsad Bektic	57.8%	434	10
58	Gavin Tucker	57.4%	707	7
59	Austin Lingo	57.4%	789	5
T-60	Jamall Emmers	57.4%	884	11
T-60	Diego Nunes	57.4%	680	6
62	Ricardo Lamas	56.7%	1,271	17
63	Jeremy Stephens	56.7%	1,755	17
64	Jonathan Pearce	56.6%	512	8
65	Hakeem Dawodu	56.6%	1,045	10
66	Dan Ige	56.4%	2,127	21
67	Dooho Choi	56.4%	931	11
68	Shane Burgos	56.4%	2,181	11
69	Melsik Baghdasaryan	56.3%	464	7
70	Hacran Dias	56.0%	673	7
71	Ricky Glenn	55.9%	549	5
72	Yadier del Valle	55.6%	178	5
73	Connor Matthews	55.5%	629	5
74	Teruto Ishihara	55.4%	514	6
75	Christian Rodriguez	55.4%	561	7
76	Brian Kelleher	55.2%	614	6
77	Manvel Gamburyan	55.1%	521	5
78	Calvin Kattar	54.8%	3,214	15
79	Nathaniel Wood	54.7%	1,221	9
80	Steven Siler	54.5%	618	15
81	Shane Young	54.5%	714	6
82	Dan Hooker	54.4%	722	7
83	Pat Sabatini	54.1%	266	11
84	Mike Brown	54.0%	385	5
85	Francis Marshall	53.8%	498	6
86	Robert Peralta	53.8%	450	7
87	Sodiq Yusuff	53.7%	1,057	11
88	Kai Kamaka III	53.6%	714	5
89	David Onama	53.4%	708	7
90	Steven Peterson	53.3%	1,444	8
91	Michael Aswell Jr.	53.2%	735	5
92	Kyle Nelson	53.1%	808	8
93	Leonard Garcia	53.1%	1,102	6
94	Yair Rodriguez	52.7%	1,624	14
95	Morgan Charriere	52.3%	717	8
96	Jose Delgado	52.2%	561	7
97	Melquizael Costa	52.1%	609	8
98	Rony Jason	51.9%	420	10
99	Jason Knight	51.6%	715	10
100	Ricardo Ramos	51.5%	726	10

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.