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	Luana Santos	68.3%	303	5
2	Germaine de Randamie	66.9%	595	9
3	Liz Carmouche	65.8%	474	6
4	Norma Dumont	63.0%	700	6
5	Daria Zhelezniakova	62.4%	492	5
6	Jacqueline Cavalcanti	61.4%	594	5
7	Raquel Pennington	60.8%	2,396	18
8	Marion Reneau	59.9%	1,493	13
9	Jessica Eye	59.5%	602	6
10	Amanda Nunes	58.0%	1,076	15
11	Ailin Perez	57.9%	406	7
12	Holly Holm	57.8%	1,199	12
13	Nora Cornolle	57.5%	379	7
14	Valentina Shevchenko	57.4%	547	5
15	Julianna Pena	57.4%	945	11
16	Irene Aldana	56.2%	3,025	13
17	Bethe Correia	56.0%	1,706	12
18	Ashlee Evans-Smith	55.7%	697	7
19	Julia Avila	55.5%	524	6
20	Jessica Andrade	55.1%	648	7
21	Yana Santos	54.9%	876	11
22	Alexis Davis	54.3%	1,112	10
23	Jessica-Rose Clark	53.8%	418	6
24	Sijara Eubanks	53.7%	791	6
25	Melissa Mullins	53.3%	424	5
26	Miesha Tate	53.2%	1,171	13
27	Stephanie Egger	52.0%	248	6
28	Lucie Pudilova	51.8%	883	18
29	Leslie Smith	51.7%	1,045	6
30	Pannie Kianzad	51.4%	1,181	10
31	Joselyne Edwards	50.9%	947	12
32	Mayra Bueno Silva	50.7%	814	7
33	Ketlen Vieira	50.6%	1,685	14
34	Sarah Moras	50.3%	786	8
35	Karol Rosa	50.0%	1,411	11
36	Gina Mazany	49.8%	209	5
37	Priscila Cachoeira	47.9%	606	6
38	Cat Zingano	46.7%	210	6
39	Lina Lansberg	45.6%	875	10
40	Aspen Ladd	44.4%	525	6
41	Sara McMann	44.1%	456	13
42	Macy Chiasson	41.7%	436	9
43	Chelsea Chandler	41.7%	324	5
44	Hailey Cowan	41.4%	266	5
45	Ronda Rousey	40.6%	197	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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