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	Jena Bishop	3.9	16	7
2	Jimmy Flick	3.5	15	7
3	Avazbek Kholmirzaev	3.0	7	5
4	Jafel Filho	2.2	8	6
5	Louis Smolka	2.2	18	10
6	Liz Carmouche	2.0	8	5
7	Joseph Morales	1.9	6	5
8	Deiveson Figueiredo	1.8	20	14
9	Jake Hadley	1.7	7	6
10	Bidzina Gavashelishvili	1.6	8	5
11	Neil Seery	1.6	10	7
12	Tagir Ulanbekov	1.5	10	8
13	Asu Almabayev	1.4	11	9
14	Daniel Lacerda	1.4	2	5
15	Tatsuro Taira	1.3	9	9
16	Paddy Holohan	1.3	5	5
17	Ray Borg	1.3	11	9
18	Matt Schnell	1.2	8	12
19	Brandon Royval	1.2	12	13
20	Malcolm Gordon	1.2	3	6
21	Makoto Takahashi	1.1	5	7
22	Jesus Aguilar	1.1	6	8
23	Édgar Cháirez	1.1	4	6
24	Muhammad Mokaev	1.1	7	9
25	Rogerio Bontorin	1.1	5	6
26	John Moraga	1.1	12	14
27	Ben Nguyen	1.0	4	7
28	Clayton Carpenter	1.0	4	6
29	André Lima	1.0	6	7
30	Yuta Sasaki	0.9	3	6
31	Tim Elliott	0.9	16	20
32	Yuki Ito	0.9	5	6
33	John Lineker	0.9	5	8
34	Alexandre Pantoja	0.9	14	19
35	Allan Nascimento	0.8	4	6
36	Chris Cariaso	0.8	6	9
37	Wilson Reis	0.8	6	11
38	Alessandro Costa	0.7	4	8
39	Jawany Scott	0.7	4	6
40	Davide Scarano	0.7	3	5
41	Jenel Lausa	0.7	3	5
42	Demetrious Johnson	0.6	12	15
43	Lone'er Kavanagh	0.6	4	7
44	Jarred Brooks	0.6	3	6
45	Jussier Formiga	0.6	7	16
46	Matheus Nicolau	0.5	4	10
47	Fran Breen	0.5	2	6
48	Ode Osbourne	0.5	2	8
49	Ryan Benoit	0.5	3	8
50	Daniel Barez	0.5	2	5
51	Justin Scoggins	0.5	3	8
52	Cody Durden	0.5	4	13
53	Joby Sanchez	0.5	2	6
54	Zach Makovsky	0.4	4	10
55	David Dvorak	0.4	3	9
56	Charles Johnson	0.4	5	14
57	Askar Askarov	0.4	2	5
58	Brandon Moreno	0.4	9	21
59	Veronika Smolková	0.3	1	5
60	Alex Perez	0.3	2	14
61	Amir Albazi	0.3	2	6
62	Sumudaerji	0.3	2	8
63	Kyoji Horiguchi	0.3	3	11
64	Joseph Benavidez	0.3	4	19
65	Steve Erceg	0.3	2	8
66	Bruno Silva	0.3	2	11
67	Ali Bagautinov	0.3	2	7
68	Joshua Van	0.3	3	12
69	Raulian Paiva	0.3	1	5
70	Erson Yamamoto	0.2	1	6
71	Manel Kape	0.2	2	11
72	Dakota Ditcheva	0.2	1	10
73	Jordan Espinosa	0.2	1	7
74	Luis Gurule	0.2	1	5
75	Zhalgas Zhumagulov	0.2	2	10
76	CJ Vergara	0.2	1	9
77	Carlos Hernandez	0.2	1	8
78	Sam Creasey	0.2	1	5
79	Eric Shelton	0.2	1	6
80	Aaron Aby	0.2	1	6
81	Henry Cejudo	0.1	1	9
82	John Dodson	0.1	1	9
83	Dustin Ortiz	0.1	1	14

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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