Most submission attempts per 15 minutes

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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	Most submission attempts per 15 minutes	Submission attempts	Bouts
1	Marcin Held	20.2	182	11
2	Paul Sass	7.4	14	5
3	Roberto Satoshi de Souza	6.6	10	5
4	Patrick Smith	6.6	3	6
5	John Albert	6.1	9	5
6	Bubba Jenkins	5.5	50	12
7	Kade Ruotolo	5.2	6	5
8	Jack Humphries	4.8	6	5
9	TJ Waldburger	4.8	19	8
10	Ramazan Gitinov	4.8	7	5
11	Seika Izawa	4.8	15	6
12	Teddy Stringer	4.6	6	7
13	Adrian Lee	4.6	7	5
14	Jena Bishop	4.4	19	8
15	Jaqueline Amorim	4.3	17	7
16	Gabriel Miranda	4.1	6	5
17	Dustin Hazelett	4.1	15	10
18	Frank Shamrock	3.9	9	5
19	Valter Walker	3.6	6	6
20	Royce Gracie	3.6	14	13
21	Wes Schultz	3.6	7	5
22	Jimmy Flick	3.5	15	7
23	Shido Boris Esperanca	3.4	6	5
24	Shannon Gugerty	3.4	8	5
25	Tim Credeur	3.3	8	5
26	Renato Sobral	3.2	17	10
27	Emiliano Sordi	3.2	15	13
28	Rousimar Palhares	3.1	16	12
29	Fabiano Iha	3.1	8	7
30	César Augusto	3.1	8	6
31	Václav Holota	3.1	12	6
32	Manny Bermudez	3.1	6	5
33	Ronda Rousey	3.0	5	8
34	Ivan Salaverry	2.9	10	7
35	Konrad Rusinski	2.9	9	6
36	Yoshiyuki Yoshida	2.8	4	5
37	Dumitru Girlean	2.8	8	5
38	Wellington Filho	2.8	10	5
39	Jordan Vucenic	2.7	10	6
40	Dave Menne	2.7	12	6
41	Mateusz Strzelczyk	2.7	10	11
42	Oleg Taktarov	2.7	11	9
43	Darrick Minner	2.7	9	7
44	Jason High	2.7	10	7
45	Sean Clancy Jr.	2.6	8	7
46	Julian Marquez	2.6	12	9
47	Brian Foster	2.6	6	6
48	Dustin Pague	2.6	10	6
49	Robert Valentin	2.5	5	5
50	Max Holzer	2.5	11	6
51	João Pedro Saldanha	2.5	5	5
52	Alihan Suleimanov	2.5	5	5
53	Cody McKenzie	2.5	9	7
54	Charles Oliveira	2.5	48	36
55	Guy Mezger	2.5	4	5
56	Elias Boudegzdame	2.5	7	5
57	Daniel Roberts	2.5	11	7
58	Chas Skelly	2.4	17	11
59	Jan Masek	2.4	11	5
60	Rob Kimmons	2.4	8	7
61	Jason Lambert	2.4	7	8
62	Avazbek Kholmirzaev	2.3	12	9
63	Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu	2.3	9	5
64	JP Buys	2.3	6	6
65	Boris Atangana	2.3	2	5
66	Preston Parsons	2.3	10	6
67	Hermes Franca	2.3	23	11
68	Elora Dana	2.3	8	6
69	Joe Doerksen	2.3	14	9
70	Bo Nickal	2.3	8	9
71	Wilson Gouveia	2.3	10	10
72	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	2.2	8	7
73	Ryan Hall	2.2	10	6
74	Denis Goltsov	2.2	17	18
75	Jack Grant	2.2	7	5
76	Marcin Bandel	2.2	2	5
77	Ryan Jensen	2.2	5	8
78	Joseph Morales	2.2	8	6
79	Marco Ruas	2.2	8	6
80	Sofiia Bagishvili	2.2	5	5
81	Joe Stevenson	2.2	24	16
82	Dustin Kimura	2.2	7	5
83	Chase Hooper	2.2	19	15
84	Alexandre Almeida	2.2	4	5
85	Benoit Saint Denis	2.2	13	14
86	Zumso Zuraev	2.2	7	5
87	Clay Collard	2.2	33	18
88	Chris Lytle	2.2	31	20
89	Dennis Hallman	2.2	12	9
90	Christian Mach	2.1	5	5
91	Tamdan McCrory	2.1	11	9
92	Andrew Holbrook	2.1	5	5
93	Remco Pardoel	2.1	4	5
94	Tomáš Mudroch	2.1	5	6
95	Ken Shamrock	2.1	11	15
96	Nikola Dipchikov	2.1	5	5
97	Macarena Aragon	2.1	5	5
98	Kendall Grove	2.1	17	13
99	Dione Barbosa	2.1	10	7
100	Martin Kampmann	2.1	21	17

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.

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