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 27, 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	Josh Koscheck	63.2%	1,429	24
23	Ryan LaFlare	63.2%	747	10
24	Kyle Noke	63.2%	448	7
25	Gadzhi Rabadanov	63.1%	103	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	17
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	5
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	Solomon Renfro	61.0%	136	5
45	Court McGee	61.0%	2,243	19
46	Muslim Salikhov	60.8%	1,157	15
47	Anthony Johnson	60.8%	260	10
48	Mike Pyle	60.7%	1,126	19
49	Jake Ellenberger	60.7%	1,216	21
50	Amir Sadollah	60.7%	1,177	10
51	Santiago Ponzinibbio	60.7%	2,760	20
52	Darren Till	60.3%	766	8
53	Oban Elliott	60.1%	479	7
54	Dhiego Lima	60.1%	820	9
55	Tim Means	60.1%	2,356	25
56	Alan Jouban	60.0%	1,103	13
57	Sean Brady	59.9%	1,014	11
58	Sergio Moraes	59.8%	1,518	13
59	Chidi Njokuani	59.5%	639	6
60	Nicholas Musoke	59.2%	674	5
61	Alex Garcia	59.2%	870	10
62	Dong Hyun Kim	59.1%	863	17
63	Yohan Lainesse	58.9%	263	5
64	Karo Parisyan	58.9%	757	12
65	Richard Walsh	58.9%	511	6
66	Peter Sobotta	58.9%	829	10
67	Joe Riggs	58.8%	194	7
68	Michael Graves	58.6%	133	5
69	Zak Ottow	58.6%	510	8
70	Omari Akhmedov	58.6%	490	7
71	Albert Tumenov	58.5%	598	11
72	Robbie Lawler	58.5%	3,601	23
73	Chris Lytle	58.3%	1,598	19
74	Bojan Velickovic	58.2%	340	21
75	Michel Pereira	58.2%	945	8
76	Daniel Rodriguez	58.0%	1,855	14
77	Max Griffin	58.0%	2,193	19
78	Drew Fickett	57.9%	335	7
79	Cathal Pendred	57.7%	430	5
80	Mike Malott	57.6%	510	9
81	George Sullivan	57.6%	375	7
82	Forrest Petz	57.4%	418	7
83	Rafael Dos Anjos	57.2%	1,438	11
T-84	Brock Larson	57.1%	168	5
T-84	Jake Shields	57.1%	637	10
86	Nick Diaz	57.1%	1,298	13
87	Li Jingliang	57.1%	1,538	17
88	Tyron Woodley	57.1%	1,484	16
89	Geoff Neal	57.0%	1,775	14
90	Keita Nakamura	56.8%	1,025	11
91	Brian Ebersole	56.7%	543	8
92	Matthew Riddle	56.7%	827	9
93	Tarec Saffiedine	56.7%	863	6
94	Mike Swick	56.7%	503	9
95	Duane Ludwig	56.6%	429	6
96	David Mitchell	55.8%	317	5
97	Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	55.6%	1,673	18
98	David Zawada	55.5%	632	8
99	Kamaru Usman	55.4%	1,937	17
100	Alexander Yakovlev	55.3%	398	5

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.