Most submission attempts per 15 minutes

Name: 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 October 3, 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	John Albert	6.1	9	5
2	Jena Bishop	5.0	16	6
3	Dustin Pague	2.6	10	6
4	Dustin Kimura	2.2	7	5
5	Johnny Munoz	2.0	7	5
6	Mitch Gagnon	1.9	10	8
7	Rory Evans	1.8	7	6
8	Yuki Motoya	1.8	12	7
9	Liz Carmouche	1.8	8	6
10	Joe Soto	1.7	8	7
11	Roland Delorme	1.7	7	6
12	Alex Caceres	1.7	12	9
13	Filip Macek	1.6	11	13
14	Borislav Nikolić	1.6	7	7
15	Paulina Wisniewska	1.5	5	5
16	Da'Mon Blackshear	1.5	10	10
17	Jakub Wiklacz	1.5	8	5
18	Rani Yahya	1.4	14	14
19	Brady Hiestand	1.4	6	5
20	Said Nurmagomedov	1.3	8	10
21	Matthew Lopez	1.3	6	6
22	Michael McDonald	1.3	7	9
23	Ali Taleb	1.3	2	5
24	Leandro Issa	1.2	5	5
25	Saimon Oliveira	1.2	4	5
26	Taila Santos	1.2	4	5
27	Jose Torres	1.1	7	5
28	Mansur Khatuev	1.1	4	5
29	Nathaniel Wood	1.1	4	5
30	Rinya Nakamura	1.1	4	5
31	Mario Bautista	1.1	11	15
32	Brett Johns	1.0	6	7
33	Raoni Barcelos	1.0	14	15
34	Vaughan Lee	1.0	4	7
35	Shinobu Ota	1.0	4	7
36	Brian Kelleher	1.0	5	11
37	Cody Gibson	0.9	7	11
38	Lucia Szabová	0.9	4	7
39	Kyung Ho Kang	0.9	9	12
40	Shirzad Qadrian	0.9	4	6
41	Vazha Tsiptauri	0.9	5	5
42	Sergio Pettis	0.9	6	7
43	Aljamain Sterling	0.8	13	18
44	TJ Dillashaw	0.8	12	16
45	Russell Doane	0.8	4	7
46	Ivan Menjivar	0.8	3	7
47	Kholmurod Nurmatov	0.8	3	6
48	Sebastian Przybysz	0.8	6	7
49	Murad Kalamov	0.8	5	7
50	Marlon Vera	0.7	16	24
51	Iuri Alcantara	0.7	6	14
52	Naoki Inoue	0.7	3	5
53	Farid Basharat	0.7	5	8
54	Raul Rosas Jr.	0.7	5	9
55	Joji Goto	0.7	3	7
56	Bryan Caraway	0.7	5	9
57	Cameron Saaiman	0.7	3	7
58	Carlo Bumina-ang	0.6	2	8
59	Cristian Quinonez	0.6	2	5
60	Francisco Rivera	0.6	4	10
61	Urijah Faber	0.6	9	17
62	Jack Shore	0.6	3	6
63	Vince Morales	0.6	7	13
64	Edwin Figueroa	0.6	3	6
65	Henry Briones	0.6	2	5
66	Gustavo Lopez	0.6	2	6
67	Danny Sabatello	0.6	3	6
68	Osimkhon Rakhmonov	0.5	2	5
69	Jean Matsumoto	0.5	3	6
70	Damian Stasiak	0.5	2	5
71	Chad Anheliger	0.5	3	6
72	Ricardo Ramos	0.5	2	5
73	John Castaneda	0.5	3	7
74	Lucie Pudilova	0.5	6	11
75	Mana Martinez	0.5	2	5
76	Anthony Birchak	0.5	1	6
77	Johnny Eduardo	0.4	2	8
78	Pedro Munhoz	0.4	7	20
79	Renan Barao	0.4	5	13
80	Guido Cannetti	0.4	2	10
81	Louis Smolka	0.4	1	7
82	John Lineker	0.4	3	9
83	Jose Quinonez	0.4	2	8
84	Trevin Jones	0.4	2	6
85	Montel Jackson	0.4	4	15
86	Victor Henry	0.4	2	6
87	Ricky Turcios	0.4	2	6
88	Marlon Moraes	0.3	2	11
89	Ryusei Ashizawa	0.3	1	7
90	Kyler Phillips	0.3	3	11
91	Rob Font	0.3	5	19
92	Tony Gravely	0.3	2	9
93	Douglas Silva de Andrade	0.3	2	9
94	Yuto Hokamura	0.3	1	5
95	Benito Lopez	0.3	1	5
96	Alejandro Perez	0.3	2	11
97	Deiveson Figueiredo	0.3	2	8
98	Merab Dvalishvili	0.3	5	16
99	Josiel Silva	0.3	2	6
100	George Roop	0.2	1	6

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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