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 23, 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	Danielle Taylor	71.7%	876	5
2	Gloria de Paula	66.4%	685	5
3	Cheyanne Vlismas	64.6%	444	5
4	Loopy Godinez	64.1%	1,504	12
5	Amanda Ribas	63.9%	676	8
6	Joanna Jedrzejczyk	63.6%	2,249	14
7	Stephanie Luciano	63.4%	549	5
8	Alexa Grasso	63.4%	767	6
9	Gillian Robertson	62.9%	804	8
10	Tecia Pennington	61.9%	2,427	19
11	Alice Ardelean	61.4%	896	5
12	Cynthia Calvillo	61.1%	970	8
13	Rose Namajunas	60.9%	1,583	13
14	Angela Hill	60.4%	5,232	29
15	Yan Xiaonan	60.3%	1,636	14
16	Luana Pinheiro	60.0%	915	8
17	Julia Polastri	59.7%	1,115	7
18	Istela Nunes	59.7%	531	5
19	Tabatha Ricci	58.8%	1,636	11
20	Randa Markos	58.7%	1,705	18
21	Sam Hughes	58.1%	1,800	12
22	Iasmin Lucindo	57.7%	584	6
23	Bec Rawlings	57.6%	615	5
24	Claudia Gadelha	57.2%	1,900	12
25	Karolina Kowalkiewicz	56.9%	3,364	19
26	Livinha Souza	56.8%	542	6
27	Juliana Lima	56.0%	459	7
28	Bruna Brasil	55.9%	774	8
29	Marina Rodriguez	55.8%	1,298	15
30	Alexia Thainara	55.7%	402	5
31	Virna Jandiroba	55.5%	1,111	13
32	Mallory Martin	55.5%	687	5
33	Maryna Moroz	55.5%	651	6
34	Jaqueline Amorim	54.9%	273	7
35	Yazmin Jauregui	54.8%	493	5
36	Carla Esparza	54.4%	1,412	16
37	Amanda Cooper	54.2%	308	5
38	Zhang Weili	54.0%	1,048	12
39	Piera Rodriguez	54.0%	732	8
40	Nina Nunes	53.9%	824	8
41	Jessica Aguilar	53.8%	992	5
42	Hannah Cifers	53.7%	615	6
43	Loma Lookboonmee	53.5%	764	11
44	Kailin Curran	53.5%	840	7
45	Cortney Casey	53.4%	1,289	10
46	Jessica Andrade	53.3%	2,030	16
47	Polyana Viana	53.0%	519	11
48	Denise Gomes	52.9%	734	11
49	Ketlen Souza	52.7%	539	6
50	Mackenzie Dern	52.7%	1,988	17
51	Jinh Yu Frey	52.2%	914	8
52	Diana Belbita	51.6%	883	5
53	Talita Alencar	51.5%	678	6
54	Viktoriia Dudakova	51.2%	375	5
55	Alex Chambers	50.5%	469	5
56	Elise Reed	48.3%	836	9
57	Felice Herrig	48.1%	1,108	10
58	Ashley Yoder	47.0%	1,286	11
59	Michelle Waterson-Gomez	46.6%	1,623	14
60	Cory McKenna	46.3%	566	7
61	Joanne Wood	46.3%	374	5
62	Shauna Bannon	45.9%	351	5
63	Maria Oliveira	44.9%	659	5
64	Montserrat Conejo Ruiz	44.1%	571	5
65	Jessica Penne	43.7%	1,220	9
66	Ariane Carnelossi	43.6%	589	7
67	Paige VanZant	43.4%	311	6
68	Amanda Lemos	43.3%	824	15
69	Tatiana Suarez	43.3%	314	8
70	Vanessa Demopoulos	43.1%	993	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.

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.