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	Frankie Edgar	71.8%	1,744	13
2	Myles Jury	71.7%	374	7
3	Desmond Green	69.0%	752	7
4	Justin Salas	68.9%	470	7
5	Dennis Siver	68.5%	958	12
6	Adriano Martins	68.4%	342	7
7	Yves Edwards	68.3%	1,420	19
8	John Makdessi	68.3%	3,097	19
9	Melvin Guillard	67.8%	802	19
10	George Sotiropoulos	67.2%	836	9
11	Gray Maynard	67.1%	1,795	16
12	Terry Etim	67.0%	812	11
13	Reza Madadi	67.0%	902	7
14	Tae Hyun Bang	66.5%	376	5
15	Rustam Khabilov	66.5%	1,026	12
16	Rob Emerson	66.1%	561	6
17	Benson Henderson	66.0%	1,070	12
18	BJ Penn	65.8%	1,336	16
19	Cody McKenzie	65.7%	327	5
20	Jorge Masvidal	65.7%	767	7
21	Norman Parke	65.6%	912	8
22	Josh Neer	65.2%	391	5
23	Tyson Griffin	65.1%	966	12
24	Khabib Nurmagomedov	65.0%	843	12
25	Kenny Florian	65.0%	640	12
26	Ramsey Nijem	65.0%	331	11
27	Mairbek Taisumov	64.9%	675	9
28	Kajan Johnson	64.4%	390	7
29	Spencer Fisher	64.2%	1,622	15
30	Ross Pearson	64.0%	2,731	21
31	Kurt Pellegrino	64.0%	617	11
32	Gleison Tibau	63.7%	2,071	27
33	Chad Laprise	63.4%	503	5
34	Thiago Tavares	63.1%	898	18
35	Farès Ziam	63.1%	648	12
36	Efrain Escudero	63.0%	873	12
37	Jorge Gurgel	63.0%	1,013	7
38	Paul Kelly	63.0%	424	6
39	Gabriel Benitez	62.9%	766	5
40	Anthony Njokuani	62.6%	829	8
41	Rafael Dos Anjos	62.5%	2,731	25
42	Alexander Hernandez	62.4%	1,642	16
43	Gilbert Melendez	62.2%	600	5
44	Nasrat Haqparast	62.1%	3,112	16
45	Rich Clementi	62.0%	497	7
46	Islam Makhachev	61.8%	681	16
47	Evan Dunham	61.7%	2,119	20
48	Sage Northcutt	61.7%	274	5
49	Ismael Bonfim	61.7%	699	8
50	Joe Proctor	61.6%	596	7
51	Danny Castillo	61.5%	959	14
52	King Green	61.5%	3,025	29
53	Johnny Case	61.4%	547	9
54	Aaron Riley	61.4%	736	7
55	Fabricio Camoes	61.4%	246	6
56	Shane Roller	61.4%	440	6
57	Al Iaquinta	61.4%	2,210	14
58	Damir Ismagulov	61.2%	660	7
59	Bolaji Oki	61.2%	775	6
60	TJ Grant	60.9%	583	5
61	James Vick	60.8%	936	13
62	Rafa Garcia	60.7%	1,953	12
63	Jon Tuck	60.7%	1,028	9
64	Marco Polo Reyes	60.6%	587	7
65	Mark Bocek	60.5%	871	13
66	Michel Prazeres	60.5%	686	9
67	Clay Guida	60.5%	2,827	30
68	Joe Stevenson	60.2%	764	13
69	Marcus Aurelio	60.2%	653	6
70	Francisco Trinaldo	60.2%	1,677	21
71	Kaue Fernandes	60.1%	158	5
72	Mateusz Gamrot	60.1%	1,114	14
73	Leandro Silva	60.0%	340	6
74	Abel Trujillo	59.9%	486	10
75	Nick Hein	59.9%	937	8
76	James Krause	59.8%	996	8
77	Jeremy Stephens	59.5%	1,395	21
78	Damir Hadzovic	59.5%	910	10
79	Rafaello Oliveira	59.3%	701	8
80	Din Thomas	59.1%	623	9
81	Edson Barboza	59.0%	2,866	25
82	Piotr Hallmann	58.7%	543	6
83	Diego Sanchez	58.7%	1,292	11
84	Jamie Varner	58.3%	492	9
85	Shannon Gugerty	58.2%	158	5
86	Omar Morales	58.2%	450	5
87	Gregor Gillespie	57.9%	323	8
88	Michael Johnson	57.4%	2,843	27
89	Takanori Gomi	57.4%	992	13
90	Sam Stout	57.4%	2,265	19
91	Mac Danzig	57.3%	1,108	12
92	Beneil Dariush	57.2%	1,377	26
93	Viacheslav Borshchev	57.2%	1,206	11
94	Jordan Leavitt	57.2%	236	9
95	Gilbert Burns	57.2%	757	10
96	Daron Cruickshank	57.2%	880	12
97	Diego Ferreira	57.2%	1,503	18
98	Jim Miller	56.9%	3,351	43
99	Jesse Ronson	56.9%	471	6
100	Roger Huerta	56.6%	491	8

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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