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	Demetrious Johnson	68.4%	1,568	15
2	Sergio Pettis	68.1%	1,038	9
3	Matheus Nicolau	65.8%	996	10
4	Tyson Nam	65.7%	999	6
5	Joby Sanchez	64.8%	443	6
6	Kyoji Horiguchi	64.4%	866	12
7	Sumudaerji	64.4%	579	8
8	Kai Kara-France	64.3%	1,447	13
9	Jussier Formiga	64.1%	1,178	16
10	Henry Cejudo	64.1%	827	9
11	Eric Shelton	63.5%	463	6
12	Ian McCall	62.7%	872	6
13	Zach Makovsky	62.3%	624	10
14	Joseph Morales	62.0%	316	5
15	Mitch Raposo	61.5%	641	6
16	Jesus Aguilar	61.2%	467	8
17	Chris Cariaso	61.0%	718	9
18	Jake Hadley	60.0%	550	6
19	André Lima	59.9%	664	7
20	Brandon Moreno	59.9%	3,277	21
21	David Dvorak	59.7%	631	10
22	Ben Nguyen	59.4%	443	7
23	Amir Albazi	59.0%	954	6
24	Neil Seery	58.9%	893	7
25	Matt Schnell	58.6%	883	12
26	John Dodson	58.2%	856	11
27	Askar Askarov	57.9%	499	5
28	Luis Gurule	57.9%	852	5
29	John Lineker	57.8%	816	8
30	Muhammad Mokaev	57.5%	280	9
31	Ryan Benoit	57.3%	798	8
32	Alessandro Costa	57.1%	721	8
33	Joseph Benavidez	57.1%	1,521	19
34	Joshua Van	57.0%	2,318	12
35	Manel Kape	57.0%	1,119	11
36	Wilson Reis	57.0%	886	11
37	Alex Perez	56.6%	767	14
38	John Moraga	56.4%	985	14
39	Dustin Ortiz	56.4%	867	14
40	Tim Elliott	56.3%	1,827	20
41	Steve Erceg	55.7%	1,080	8
42	Jordan Espinosa	54.0%	433	7
43	Justin Scoggins	54.0%	413	8
44	Lone'er Kavanagh	54.0%	730	8
45	Charles Johnson	53.9%	1,507	14
46	Asu Almabayev	53.8%	437	10
47	CJ Vergara	53.6%	853	9
48	Victor Altamirano	53.1%	763	7
49	Yuta Sasaki	52.9%	221	6
50	Ali Bagautinov	52.4%	737	7
51	Allan Nascimento	52.4%	340	6
52	Rogerio Bontorin	52.2%	312	6
53	Louis Smolka	52.2%	862	10
54	Zhalgas Zhumagulov	52.2%	993	10
55	Raulian Paiva	51.4%	580	5
56	Cody Durden	51.2%	1,009	14
57	Deiveson Figueiredo	51.0%	1,192	14
58	Bruno Silva	51.0%	1,114	11
59	Tagir Ulanbekov	50.6%	688	8
60	Carlos Hernandez	50.4%	611	8
61	Daniel Barez	50.2%	855	5
62	Jafel Filho	50.0%	174	6
63	Kevin Borjas	49.6%	1,027	8
64	Clayton Carpenter	49.2%	530	6
65	Édgar Cháirez	48.9%	544	6
66	Alexandre Pantoja	48.4%	1,966	19
67	Ray Borg	47.7%	434	9
68	Paddy Holohan	46.3%	300	5
69	Tatsuro Taira	44.6%	614	9
70	Jimmy Flick	43.0%	523	7
71	Ode Osbourne	42.9%	457	9
72	Brandon Royval	42.8%	1,128	13
73	Malcolm Gordon	40.5%	126	6
74	Daniel Lacerda	34.6%	309	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.

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