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 25, 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	Jon Madsen	81.4%	360	5
2	Tom Aspinall	65.4%	153	9
3	Matt Mitrione	64.6%	695	14
4	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	64.2%	285	7
5	Jake O'Brien	62.8%	172	5
6	Maxim Grishin	62.5%	120	6
7	Maurice Smith	62.3%	207	7
8	Tim Sylvia	62.2%	913	13
9	Ciryl Gane	62.0%	1,034	13
10	Todd Duffee	61.4%	101	5
11	Jeff Monson	61.3%	385	6
12	Tanner Boser	61.0%	669	9
13	Jared Rosholt	59.9%	404	16
14	Pat Barry	59.6%	606	12
15	Mike Russow	59.2%	473	6
16	Gabriel Gonzaga	59.1%	906	22
17	Mario Pinto	58.9%	180	5
18	Randy Couture	58.8%	636	13
19	Mick Parkin	58.7%	654	6
20	Ricco Rodriguez	57.9%	259	7
21	Mirko Filipovic	57.9%	746	17
22	Justin Willis	57.9%	382	5
23	Chris Daukaus	57.7%	241	7
24	Cain Velasquez	57.6%	628	15
25	Tra Telligman	57.4%	256	5
26	Jhonata Diniz	56.8%	500	6
27	Viktor Pesta	56.7%	293	8
28	Pete Williams	56.4%	236	8
29	Andrei Arlovski	56.2%	3,020	41
30	Junior Dos Santos	56.2%	1,880	23
31	Sergei Pavlovich	56.2%	518	12
32	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	56.1%	820	11
33	Martin Buday	55.7%	1,032	16
34	Shamil Abdurakhimov	55.5%	705	11
35	Brendan Schaub	55.3%	367	10
36	Josh Copeland	55.3%	190	6
37	Curtis Blaydes	55.2%	1,253	21
38	Waldo Cortes Acosta	55.2%	1,268	15
39	Walt Harris	55.0%	671	15
40	Fabricio Werdum	54.9%	1,394	18
41	Thomas Petersen	54.9%	463	8
42	Lukasz Brzeski	54.8%	588	8
43	Marcin Tybura	54.7%	2,058	25
44	Cheick Kongo	54.5%	514	18
45	Alexander Volkov	54.4%	1,650	19
46	Kevin Randleman	54.3%	164	5
47	Pedro Rizzo	54.2%	797	14
48	Alexander Romanov	54.2%	417	13
49	Shane Carwin	54.2%	240	6
50	Maxwell Djantou Nana	54.1%	183	5
51	Yorgan De Castro	53.8%	329	7
52	Blagoy Ivanov	53.5%	1,174	9
53	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	52.8%	428	12
54	Kennedy Nzechukwu	52.8%	163	5
55	Ante Delija	52.6%	175	15
56	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	52.4%	784	15
57	Chase Sherman	52.3%	2,237	15
58	Stipe Miocic	52.3%	1,814	19
59	Junior Albini	52.3%	371	5
60	Greg Hardy	52.0%	469	12
61	Junior Tafa	51.9%	206	5
62	Mohammed Usman	51.2%	705	7
63	Alistair Overeem	51.1%	1,205	20
64	Joey Beltran	50.9%	821	7
65	Paul Buentello	50.9%	330	6
66	Serghei Spivac	50.9%	1,211	16
67	Daniel Cormier	50.6%	622	6
68	Carlos Felipe	50.6%	850	12
69	Josh Barnett	50.5%	424	9
70	Jake Collier	50.1%	1,046	8
71	Mark Hunt	50.1%	1,234	17
72	Brock Lesnar	49.8%	231	7
73	Philipe Lins	49.6%	129	5
74	Shawn Jordan	49.6%	462	11
75	Parker Porter	49.4%	733	8
76	Brandon Vera	49.2%	323	7
77	Rizvan Kuniev	49.2%	250	5
78	Karl Williams	49.1%	601	9
79	Dave Herman	48.8%	207	5
80	Jamal Pogues	48.8%	607	5
81	Josh Hokit	48.7%	372	5
82	Soa Palelei	48.4%	347	7
83	Daniel Omielanczuk	47.5%	673	9
84	Justin Tafa	47.1%	522	9
85	Antoni Hardonk	47.0%	296	8
86	Stefan Struve	46.5%	1,415	24
87	Don'Tale Mayes	46.5%	1,097	14
88	Tim Hague	46.3%	268	5
89	Maurice Greene	45.9%	451	12
90	Marcelo Golm	45.8%	264	5
91	Anthony Hamilton	45.7%	350	10
92	Augusto Sakai	45.6%	791	12
93	Heath Herring	45.5%	325	5
94	Shamil Gaziev	45.4%	518	9
95	Jared Vanderaa	45.2%	876	8
96	Roy Nelson	44.8%	1,762	18
97	Ben Rothwell	44.7%	1,608	17
98	Luis Henrique	44.5%	209	6
T-99	Jailton Almeida	44.4%	216	10
T-99	Timothy Johnson	44.4%	459	11

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.