Best striking differential

Name: Best striking differential
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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 October 2, 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 striking differential	Minutes	Bouts
1	Veronika Smolková	7.49	46.6	5
2	Avazbek Kholmirzaev	3.30	34.9	5
3	Joshua Van	2.43	170.8	12
4	Sumudaerji	2.07	100.1	8
5	Erson Yamamoto	2.05	67.7	7
6	Demetrious Johnson	2.02	279.2	15
7	Eimar Darcy	1.85	38.9	5
8	Yuya Wakamatsu	1.83	64.5	6
9	Fran Breen	1.80	56.3	6
10	Hu Yong	1.76	64.9	5
11	Kyoji Horiguchi	1.54	152.5	11
12	Yuki Ito	1.37	96.8	7
13	John Lineker	1.37	84.8	8
14	Brandon Royval	1.36	152.2	13
15	Justin Scoggins	1.33	93.8	8
16	Jean Claude Saclag	1.27	18.1	5
17	Kai Kara-France	1.22	159.6	13
18	Sergio Pettis	1.13	136.6	9
19	André Lima	1.06	94.0	7
20	Chris Cariaso	0.94	118.2	9
21	Jawany Scott	0.90	86.4	6
22	Makoto Takahashi	0.87	85.3	9
23	Joseph Benavidez	0.81	210.2	19
24	Allan Nascimento	0.80	78.3	6
25	Manel Kape	0.80	124.0	11
26	Malcolm Gordon	0.80	38.8	6
27	Dustin Ortiz	0.77	174.5	14
28	Victor Altamirano	0.76	93.7	7
29	Eric Shelton	0.69	90.0	6
30	Joby Sanchez	0.67	63.8	6
31	Henry Cejudo	0.65	108.8	9
32	Charles Johnson	0.65	176.3	14
33	Sam Creasey	0.62	89.7	5
34	Steve Erceg	0.62	108.9	8
35	Hiromasa Ougikubo	0.59	75.0	5
36	Zhalgas Zhumagulov	0.54	136.1	10
37	Jarred Brooks	0.53	75.1	6
38	Ben Nguyen	0.50	59.8	7
39	Tim Elliott	0.49	259.1	20
40	Louis Smolka	0.49	121.5	10
41	Alex Perez	0.44	95.0	14
42	Bidzina Gavashelishvili	0.43	75.0	5
43	Muhammad Mokaev	0.35	94.9	9
44	Carlos Hernandez	0.33	86.6	8
45	CJ Vergara	0.33	84.4	9
46	Luis Gurule	0.33	66.9	5
47	Alexandre Pantoja	0.31	239.8	19
48	Asu Almabayev	0.28	119.6	9
49	Askar Askarov	0.25	75.0	5
50	Jesus Aguilar	0.25	79.3	8
51	Ian McCall	0.23	90.0	6
52	Jafel Filho	0.22	53.7	6
53	Jordan Espinosa	0.21	65.3	7
54	Matheus Nicolau	0.19	110.0	10
55	Brandon Moreno	0.17	355.9	21
56	Michelangelo Lupoli	0.13	63.5	5
57	Yuta Sasaki	0.13	47.7	6
58	David Dvorak	0.08	105.3	9
59	Matt Schnell	0.07	96.8	12
60	John Moraga	0.02	168.3	14
61	Joseph Morales	0.02	46.4	5
62	Alessandro Costa	-0.07	82.9	8
63	Jake Hadley	-0.19	61.9	6
64	Lone'er Kavanagh	-0.22	95.7	7
65	Neil Seery	-0.24	96.7	7
66	Ali Bagautinov	-0.25	113.5	7
67	John Dodson	-0.28	148.8	10
68	Rogerio Bontorin	-0.28	67.9	6
69	Zach Makovsky	-0.33	137.3	10
70	Ray Borg	-0.33	128.5	9
71	Deiveson Figueiredo	-0.41	166.9	14
72	Tagir Ulanbekov	-0.42	98.9	8
73	Raulian Paiva	-0.43	57.6	5
74	Clayton Carpenter	-0.60	60.1	6
75	Tatsuro Taira	-0.62	102.6	9
76	Paddy Holohan	-0.68	57.3	5
77	Cody Durden	-0.69	125.3	13
78	Bruno Silva	-0.70	110.7	11
79	Édgar Cháirez	-0.76	54.0	6
80	Ode Osbourne	-0.82	58.3	8
81	Hiroya Kondo	-0.85	55.1	5
82	Jussier Formiga	-0.92	180.9	16
83	Davide Scarano	-0.99	64.8	5
84	Aaron Aby	-0.99	95.0	6
85	Mitch Raposo	-1.01	68.2	5
86	Ryan Benoit	-1.13	91.3	8
87	Tyson Nam	-1.28	69.4	6
88	Wilson Reis	-1.40	118.5	11
89	Amir Albazi	-1.57	96.8	6
90	Jenel Lausa	-1.72	69.2	5
91	Kevin Borjas	-1.74	95.2	8
92	Daniel Barez	-2.32	61.5	5
93	Jimmy Flick	-3.03	63.4	7
94	Daniel Lacerda	-4.71	22.1	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.