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 22, 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	Georges St-Pierre	73.0%	1,736	21
2	Luigi Fioravanti	72.2%	558	6
3	Ismail Naurdiev	68.3%	246	7
4	Roan Carneiro	66.7%	372	7
5	Leandro Silva	66.5%	161	10
6	Pat Miletich	66.4%	253	7
7	Ramazan Emeev	66.3%	596	7
8	Michael Chiesa	66.2%	391	11
9	Nordine Taleb	66.1%	947	11
10	Marcus Davis	65.9%	999	14
11	Kelvin Gastelum	65.7%	766	8
12	Brad Blackburn	65.3%	669	5
13	Jordan Mein	65.3%	648	9
14	Brian Foster	65.2%	115	5
15	Abubakar Nurmagomedov	65.2%	359	7
16	Gabriel Bonfim	64.9%	900	9
17	Sean Pierson	64.6%	819	6
18	Demian Maia	64.5%	1,634	20
19	Sam Patterson	64.1%	234	6
20	Alexey Kunchenko	63.8%	470	6
21	Paulo Thiago	63.5%	809	13
22	Mohammad Alaqraa	63.2%	155	5
23	Josh Koscheck	63.2%	1,429	24
24	Ryan LaFlare	63.2%	747	10
25	Kyle Noke	63.2%	448	7
26	Lyman Good	63.0%	595	6
27	Sean Strickland	62.9%	1,048	8
28	Sean Spencer	62.8%	989	7
29	Rick Story	62.5%	1,374	22
30	Rory MacDonald	62.5%	1,329	19
31	Thiago Alves	62.4%	2,623	26
32	Jake Matthews	62.3%	1,499	17
33	Mike Pierce	62.2%	1,086	14
34	John Hathaway	62.0%	571	11
35	Joaquin Buckley	62.0%	836	8
36	Anthony Rocco Martin	62.0%	523	7
37	Luke Cummo	61.9%	281	6
38	Dwight Grant	61.9%	561	8
39	Curtis Millender	61.5%	442	7
40	Lorenz Larkin	61.5%	454	6
T-41	Jack Della Maddalena	61.3%	1,456	11
T-41	Chris Curtis	61.3%	364	5
43	Martin Kampmann	61.1%	1,073	12
44	Court McGee	61.0%	2,243	19
45	Muslim Salikhov	60.8%	1,157	15
46	Anthony Johnson	60.8%	260	10
47	Mike Pyle	60.7%	1,126	19
48	Jake Ellenberger	60.7%	1,216	21
49	Amir Sadollah	60.7%	1,177	10
50	Santiago Ponzinibbio	60.7%	2,760	20
51	Darren Till	60.3%	766	8
52	Oban Elliott	60.1%	479	7
53	Dhiego Lima	60.1%	820	9
54	Tim Means	60.1%	2,356	25
55	Alan Jouban	60.0%	1,103	13
56	Sean Brady	59.9%	1,014	11
57	Sergio Moraes	59.8%	1,518	13
58	Chidi Njokuani	59.5%	639	6
59	Nicholas Musoke	59.2%	674	5
60	Alex Garcia	59.2%	870	10
61	Dong Hyun Kim	59.1%	863	17
62	Yohan Lainesse	58.9%	263	5
63	Karo Parisyan	58.9%	757	12
64	Richard Walsh	58.9%	511	6
65	Peter Sobotta	58.9%	829	10
66	Joe Riggs	58.8%	194	7
67	Michael Graves	58.6%	133	5
68	Zak Ottow	58.6%	510	8
69	Omari Akhmedov	58.6%	490	7
70	Albert Tumenov	58.5%	598	11
71	Robbie Lawler	58.5%	3,601	23
72	Chris Lytle	58.3%	1,598	19
73	Bojan Velickovic	58.2%	340	21
74	Michel Pereira	58.2%	945	8
75	Daniel Rodriguez	58.0%	1,855	14
76	Max Griffin	58.0%	2,193	19
77	Drew Fickett	57.9%	335	7
78	Cathal Pendred	57.7%	430	5
79	Mike Malott	57.6%	510	9
80	George Sullivan	57.6%	375	7
81	Forrest Petz	57.4%	418	7
82	Rafael Dos Anjos	57.2%	1,438	11
T-83	Brock Larson	57.1%	168	5
T-83	Jake Shields	57.1%	637	10
85	Nick Diaz	57.1%	1,298	13
86	Li Jingliang	57.1%	1,538	17
87	Tyron Woodley	57.1%	1,484	16
88	Geoff Neal	57.0%	1,775	14
89	Keita Nakamura	56.8%	1,025	11
90	Brian Ebersole	56.7%	543	8
91	Matthew Riddle	56.7%	827	9
92	Tarec Saffiedine	56.7%	863	6
93	Mike Swick	56.7%	503	9
94	Duane Ludwig	56.6%	429	6
95	David Mitchell	55.8%	317	5
96	Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	55.6%	1,673	18
97	David Zawada	55.5%	632	9
98	Kamaru Usman	55.4%	1,937	17
99	Alexander Yakovlev	55.3%	398	5
100	Diego Sanchez	55.3%	1,442	19

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.