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	Phil Davis	72.0%	794	14
2	Ryan Bader	71.6%	989	19
3	Vinny Magalhaes	69.7%	458	10
4	Jared Cannonier	68.7%	534	5
5	Eliot Marshall	67.9%	474	6
6	Thiago Silva	67.2%	799	10
7	Rich Franklin	65.6%	366	7
8	Jason Brilz	65.3%	357	7
9	Frank Shamrock	65.2%	115	5
10	Lyoto Machida	65.0%	720	15
11	Jon Jones	64.9%	1,985	21
12	Oumar Sy	64.5%	287	7
13	James Te Huna	64.3%	454	9
14	Rashad Evans	64.0%	1,537	20
15	Brian Stann	62.7%	386	5
16	Michal Oleksiejczuk	62.4%	566	7
17	Cyrille Diabate	62.3%	260	8
18	Forrest Griffin	61.8%	1,146	14
19	Matt Hamill	61.4%	1,526	15
20	Wilson Gouveia	61.4%	378	6
21	Anthony Johnson	61.0%	254	8
22	Keith Jardine	60.8%	1,019	12
23	Navajo Stirling	60.3%	446	7
24	Misha Cirkunov	60.1%	331	11
25	Chuck Liddell	60.0%	1,015	19
26	Tom Lawlor	59.8%	239	5
27	Randy Couture	59.6%	332	10
28	Iwo Baraniewski	59.6%	230	5
29	Diyar Nurgozhay	59.5%	262	5
30	Tito Ortiz	59.5%	1,698	23
31	Francimar Barroso	59.4%	849	8
32	Krzysztof Soszynski	59.1%	584	9
33	Luiz Cane	59.0%	420	8
34	Corey Anderson	59.0%	875	15
35	Tim Boetsch	58.5%	455	7
36	Wanderlei Silva	58.2%	318	5
37	Quinton Jackson	58.0%	1,231	12
38	Maxim Grishin	57.1%	266	8
39	Sam Hoger	57.1%	352	5
40	Dustin Jacoby	56.9%	1,644	17
41	Alessio Sakara	56.6%	143	6
42	Ibo Aslan	56.6%	311	6
43	Tyson Pedro	56.5%	434	11
44	Anton Turkalj	56.1%	337	5
45	Eric Schafer	56.1%	428	7
46	Azamat Murzakanov	56.0%	482	8
47	Patrick Cummins	55.9%	886	13
48	Ilir Latifi	55.7%	621	12
49	Brendson Ribeiro	55.7%	521	9
50	Magomed Ankalaev	55.4%	1,153	16
51	Volkan Oezdemir	55.4%	1,415	16
52	Vladimir Matyushenko	55.1%	303	9
53	Brandon Vera	54.9%	587	9
54	Rogerio Nogueira	54.7%	874	13
55	Marcin Prachnio	54.6%	744	12
56	Sam Alvey	54.6%	625	8
57	Aleksa Camur	54.5%	615	5
58	Ivan Erslan	54.3%	484	7
59	Dan Spohn	54.0%	63	7
60	Fabio Maldonado	53.7%	1,031	9
61	Alex Pereira	53.7%	561	7
62	Bruno Lopes	53.4%	429	6
63	Elvis Sinosic	52.9%	467	6
64	Gian Villante	52.9%	2,016	15
65	Stephan Bonnar	52.5%	869	14
66	Jordan Johnson	52.3%	279	6
67	Daniel Cormier	52.3%	683	8
68	Mauricio Rua	52.2%	1,920	24
69	Jason Lambert	51.7%	149	7
70	Jan Blachowicz	51.6%	1,968	23
71	Alexander Gustafsson	51.6%	1,352	17
72	Kyle Kingsbury	51.2%	797	9
73	Aleksandar Rakic	51.2%	688	11
74	Carlos Ulberg	51.1%	706	12
75	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	51.0%	102	6
76	Khalil Rountree Jr.	51.0%	1,328	16
77	Glover Teixeira	51.0%	2,419	23
78	Kennedy Nzechukwu	51.0%	1,250	13
79	Alonzo Menifield	50.5%	1,330	21
80	Renato Sobral	50.3%	193	9
81	Modestas Bukauskas	49.7%	1,009	13
82	Dominick Reyes	49.6%	795	15
83	Jeremy Kimball	49.4%	81	8
84	Da Woon Jung	49.3%	785	9
85	David Heath	49.3%	467	5
86	Jimi Manuwa	49.2%	659	12
87	Nikita Krylov	48.8%	777	19
88	Thiago Santos	48.3%	841	10
89	Rafael Cavalcante	47.5%	379	5
90	Dan Henderson	47.4%	732	8
91	Vitor Petrino	47.2%	381	7
92	Rodolfo Bellato	47.2%	693	6
93	Ryan Jimmo	47.0%	347	7
94	Ovince Saint Preux	46.8%	1,671	26
95	Paul Craig	46.6%	665	16
96	Johnny Mendez Walker	46.5%	666	16
97	Bogdan Guskov	46.5%	434	7
98	Billy Elekana	46.2%	236	5
99	Ion Cuțelaba	46.1%	1,067	21
100	Sean O'Connell	45.4%	691	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.