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 9, 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	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	Maurice Smith	62.3%	207	7
7	Tim Sylvia	62.2%	913	13
8	Ciryl Gane	62.0%	1,034	13
9	Tanner Boser	61.5%	714	10
10	Todd Duffee	61.4%	101	5
11	Jeff Monson	61.3%	385	6
12	Jared Rosholt	59.9%	404	16
13	Pat Barry	59.6%	606	12
14	Mike Russow	59.2%	473	6
15	Gabriel Gonzaga	59.1%	906	22
16	Mario Pinto	58.9%	180	5
17	Randy Couture	58.8%	636	13
18	Ricco Rodriguez	57.9%	259	7
19	Mirko Filipovic	57.9%	746	17
20	Justin Willis	57.9%	382	5
21	Chris Daukaus	57.7%	241	7
22	Cain Velasquez	57.6%	628	15
23	Tra Telligman	57.4%	256	5
24	Mick Parkin	57.3%	686	7
25	Viktor Pesta	56.7%	293	8
26	Pete Williams	56.4%	236	8
27	Andrei Arlovski	56.2%	3,020	41
28	Junior Dos Santos	56.2%	1,880	23
29	Sergei Pavlovich	56.2%	518	12
30	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	56.1%	820	11
31	Martin Buday	55.7%	1,032	16
32	Shamil Abdurakhimov	55.5%	705	11
33	Brendan Schaub	55.3%	367	10
34	Lukasz Brzeski	55.3%	499	7
35	Curtis Blaydes	55.2%	1,253	21
36	Walt Harris	55.0%	671	15
37	Fabricio Werdum	54.9%	1,394	18
38	Marcin Tybura	54.7%	2,058	25
39	Cheick Kongo	54.5%	514	18
40	Jhonata Diniz	54.5%	571	7
41	Kevin Randleman	54.3%	164	5
42	Pedro Rizzo	54.2%	797	14
43	Alexander Romanov	54.2%	417	13
44	Shane Carwin	54.2%	240	6
45	Waldo Cortes Acosta	54.0%	1,345	16
46	Yorgan De Castro	53.8%	329	7
47	Alexander Volkov	53.8%	1,737	20
48	Blagoy Ivanov	53.5%	1,174	9
49	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	52.8%	428	12
50	Kennedy Nzechukwu	52.8%	163	5
51	Thomas Petersen	52.5%	552	9
52	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	52.4%	784	15
53	Chase Sherman	52.3%	2,237	15
54	Stipe Miocic	52.3%	1,814	19
55	Junior Albini	52.3%	371	5
56	Greg Hardy	52.0%	469	12
57	Junior Tafa	51.9%	206	5
58	Mohammed Usman	51.2%	705	7
59	Alistair Overeem	51.1%	1,205	20
60	Joey Beltran	50.9%	821	7
61	Paul Buentello	50.9%	330	6
62	Serghei Spivac	50.9%	1,211	16
63	Daniel Cormier	50.6%	622	6
64	Carlos Felipe	50.6%	850	12
65	Josh Barnett	50.5%	424	9
66	Jake Collier	50.1%	1,046	8
67	Mark Hunt	50.1%	1,234	17
68	Brock Lesnar	49.8%	231	7
69	Rizvan Kuniev	49.8%	400	6
70	Shawn Jordan	49.6%	462	11
71	Parker Porter	49.4%	733	8
72	Brandon Vera	49.2%	323	7
73	Karl Williams	49.1%	601	9
74	Dave Herman	48.8%	207	5
75	Jamal Pogues	48.8%	607	5
76	Josh Hokit	48.7%	372	5
77	Soa Palelei	48.4%	347	7
78	Daniel Omielanczuk	47.5%	673	9
79	Justin Tafa	47.1%	522	9
80	Antoni Hardonk	47.0%	296	8
81	Stefan Struve	46.5%	1,415	24
82	Don'Tale Mayes	46.5%	1,097	14
83	Tim Hague	46.3%	268	5
84	Maurice Greene	45.9%	451	12
85	Anthony Hamilton	45.7%	350	10
86	Augusto Sakai	45.6%	791	13
87	Heath Herring	45.5%	325	5
88	Shamil Gaziev	45.4%	518	9
89	Jared Vanderaa	45.2%	876	8
90	Roy Nelson	44.8%	1,762	18
91	Ben Rothwell	44.7%	1,608	17
92	Luis Henrique	44.5%	209	6
T-93	Jailton Almeida	44.4%	216	10
T-93	Timothy Johnson	44.4%	459	11
95	Aleksei Oleinik	44.3%	790	17
96	Tai Tuivasa	43.7%	1,245	19
97	Eddie Sanchez	43.4%	309	6
98	Valter Walker	43.2%	118	6
99	Rodrigo Nascimento	43.2%	690	11
100	Travis Browne	42.9%	1,029	17

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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