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 November 7, 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	Marcin Held	20.2	182	11
2	Paul Sass	7.4	14	5
3	Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev	6.8	3	5
4	Roberto Satoshi de Souza	6.6	10	5
5	Patrick Smith	6.6	3	6
6	John Albert	6.1	9	5
7	Bubba Jenkins	5.5	50	12
8	Jena Bishop	5.2	31	9
9	Jack Humphries	4.8	6	5
10	TJ Waldburger	4.8	19	8
11	Ramazan Gitinov	4.8	7	5
12	Seika Izawa	4.8	15	6
13	Teddy Stringer	4.6	6	7
14	Adrian Lee	4.6	7	5
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	Shannon Gugerty	3.4	8	5
24	Shido Boris Esperanca	3.3	6	6
25	Tim Credeur	3.3	8	5
26	Renato Sobral	3.2	17	10
27	Rousimar Palhares	3.1	16	12
28	Fabiano Iha	3.1	8	7
29	César Augusto	3.1	8	6
30	Václav Holota	3.1	12	6
31	Manny Bermudez	3.1	6	5
32	Ronda Rousey	3.0	5	8
33	Ivan Salaverry	2.9	10	7
34	Konrad Rusinski	2.9	9	6
35	Emiliano Sordi	2.8	15	14
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	Felipe Bunes	2.6	8	5
47	Julian Marquez	2.6	12	9
48	Brian Foster	2.6	6	6
49	Dustin Pague	2.6	10	6
50	Robert Valentin	2.5	5	5
51	Max Holzer	2.5	11	6
52	João Pedro Saldanha	2.5	5	5
53	Alihan Suleimanov	2.5	5	5
54	Cody McKenzie	2.5	9	7
55	Charles Oliveira	2.5	48	36
56	Guy Mezger	2.5	4	5
57	Elias Boudegzdame	2.5	7	5
58	Daniel Roberts	2.5	11	7
59	Chas Skelly	2.4	17	11
60	Jan Masek	2.4	11	5
61	Rob Kimmons	2.4	8	7
62	Jason Lambert	2.4	7	8
63	Avazbek Kholmirzaev	2.3	12	9
64	Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu	2.3	9	5
65	JP Buys	2.3	6	6
66	Boris Atangana	2.3	2	5
67	Preston Parsons	2.3	10	6
68	Hermes Franca	2.3	23	11
69	Elora Dana	2.3	8	6
70	Joe Doerksen	2.3	14	9
71	Bo Nickal	2.3	8	9
72	Wilson Gouveia	2.3	10	10
73	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	2.2	8	7
74	Ryan Hall	2.2	10	6
75	Abdoul Abdouraguimov	2.2	10	5
76	Jack Grant	2.2	7	5
77	Marcin Bandel	2.2	2	5
78	Ryan Jensen	2.2	5	8
79	Joseph Morales	2.2	8	6
80	Marco Ruas	2.2	8	6
81	Sofiia Bagishvili	2.2	5	5
82	Joe Stevenson	2.2	24	16
83	Dustin Kimura	2.2	7	5
84	Denis Goltsov	2.2	17	19
85	Chase Hooper	2.2	19	15
86	Alexandre Almeida	2.2	4	5
87	Benoit Saint Denis	2.2	13	14
88	Zumso Zuraev	2.2	7	5
89	Clay Collard	2.2	33	18
90	Chris Lytle	2.2	31	20
91	Dennis Hallman	2.2	12	9
92	Tamdan McCrory	2.1	11	9
93	Andrew Holbrook	2.1	5	5
94	Remco Pardoel	2.1	4	5
95	Tomáš Mudroch	2.1	5	6
96	Ken Shamrock	2.1	11	15
97	Nikola Dipchikov	2.1	5	5
98	Macarena Aragon	2.1	5	5
99	Kendall Grove	2.1	17	13
100	Dione Barbosa	2.1	10	7

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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