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 5, 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	Phil Davis	72.0%	794	14
2	Ryan Bader	71.6%	989	19
3	Jared Cannonier	68.7%	534	5
4	Eliot Marshall	67.9%	474	6
5	Thiago Silva	67.2%	799	10
6	Rich Franklin	65.6%	366	7
7	Jason Brilz	65.3%	357	7
8	Frank Shamrock	65.2%	115	5
9	Lyoto Machida	65.0%	720	15
10	Jon Jones	64.9%	1,985	21
11	Oumar Sy	64.5%	287	7
12	James Te Huna	64.3%	454	9
13	Rashad Evans	64.0%	1,537	20
14	Brian Stann	62.7%	386	5
15	Michal Oleksiejczuk	62.4%	566	7
16	Cyrille Diabate	62.3%	260	8
17	Forrest Griffin	61.8%	1,146	14
18	Matt Hamill	61.4%	1,526	15
19	Wilson Gouveia	61.4%	378	6
20	Anthony Johnson	61.0%	254	8
21	Keith Jardine	60.8%	1,019	12
22	Navajo Stirling	60.3%	446	7
23	Misha Cirkunov	60.1%	331	11
24	Chuck Liddell	60.0%	1,015	19
25	Randy Couture	59.6%	332	10
26	Iwo Baraniewski	59.6%	230	5
27	Diyar Nurgozhay	59.5%	262	5
28	Tito Ortiz	59.5%	1,698	23
29	Francimar Barroso	59.4%	849	8
30	Krzysztof Soszynski	59.1%	584	9
31	Luiz Cane	59.0%	420	8
32	Corey Anderson	59.0%	875	15
33	Tim Boetsch	58.5%	455	7
34	Wanderlei Silva	58.2%	318	5
35	Quinton Jackson	58.0%	1,231	12
36	Sam Hoger	57.1%	352	5
37	Dustin Jacoby	56.9%	1,644	17
38	Alessio Sakara	56.6%	143	6
39	Ibo Aslan	56.6%	311	6
40	Eric Schafer	56.1%	428	7
41	Brendson Ribeiro	55.9%	526	10
42	Patrick Cummins	55.9%	886	13
43	Ilir Latifi	55.7%	621	12
44	Magomed Ankalaev	55.4%	1,153	16
45	Volkan Oezdemir	55.4%	1,415	16
46	Azamat Murzakanov	55.3%	506	9
47	Vladimir Matyushenko	55.1%	303	9
48	Brandon Vera	54.9%	587	9
49	Rogerio Nogueira	54.7%	874	13
50	Marcin Prachnio	54.6%	744	12
51	Sam Alvey	54.6%	625	8
52	Aleksa Camur	54.5%	615	5
53	Fabio Maldonado	53.7%	1,031	9
54	Alex Pereira	53.7%	561	7
55	Bruno Lopes	53.4%	429	6
56	Elvis Sinosic	52.9%	467	6
57	Gian Villante	52.9%	2,016	15
58	Stephan Bonnar	52.5%	869	14
59	Daniel Cormier	52.3%	683	8
60	Mauricio Rua	52.2%	1,920	24
61	Jason Lambert	51.7%	149	7
62	Jan Blachowicz	51.6%	1,968	23
63	Alexander Gustafsson	51.6%	1,352	17
64	Kyle Kingsbury	51.2%	797	9
65	Aleksandar Rakic	51.2%	688	11
66	Carlos Ulberg	51.1%	706	12
67	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	51.0%	102	6
68	Khalil Rountree Jr.	51.0%	1,328	16
69	Glover Teixeira	51.0%	2,419	23
70	Kennedy Nzechukwu	51.0%	1,250	13
71	Alonzo Menifield	50.5%	1,330	21
72	Tyson Pedro	50.4%	567	13
73	Renato Sobral	50.3%	193	9
74	Modestas Bukauskas	49.7%	1,009	13
75	Dominick Reyes	49.6%	802	16
76	Da Woon Jung	49.3%	785	9
77	David Heath	49.3%	467	5
78	Jimi Manuwa	49.2%	659	12
79	Nikita Krylov	48.6%	786	20
80	Thiago Santos	48.3%	841	10
81	Rafael Cavalcante	47.5%	379	5
82	Dan Henderson	47.4%	732	8
83	Vitor Petrino	47.2%	381	7
84	Ryan Jimmo	47.0%	347	7
85	Ovince Saint Preux	46.8%	1,671	26
86	Paul Craig	46.6%	665	16
87	Johnny Walker	46.5%	666	16
88	Bogdan Guskov	46.5%	434	7
89	Ion Cuțelaba	46.1%	1,067	21
90	Rodolfo Bellato	46.0%	787	7
91	Sean O'Connell	45.4%	691	11
92	Jiri Prochazka	45.4%	958	9
93	Jamahal Hill	44.9%	902	11
94	Ed Herman	44.6%	1,045	9
95	Evan Tanner	44.4%	81	5
96	Anthony Smith	44.1%	1,847	18
97	Ryan Spann	44.0%	543	14
98	Devin Clark	43.9%	1,050	15
99	Vinicius Moreira	43.1%	204	5
100	Anthony Perosh	42.8%	250	9

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.

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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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