Most submission attempts per 15 minutes

Name: Most submission attempts per 15 minutes
Creator: UFCalendar
License: https://www.ufcalendar.com/terms

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

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.