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 25, 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	Erson Yamamoto	1.6	7	7
12	Neil Seery	1.6	10	7
13	Tagir Ulanbekov	1.5	10	8
14	Asu Almabayev	1.4	11	9
15	Daniel Lacerda	1.4	2	5
16	Tatsuro Taira	1.3	9	9
17	Paddy Holohan	1.3	5	5
18	Ray Borg	1.3	11	9
19	Matt Schnell	1.2	8	12
20	Makoto Takahashi	1.2	7	9
21	Brandon Royval	1.2	12	13
22	Malcolm Gordon	1.2	3	6
23	Jesus Aguilar	1.1	6	8
24	Édgar Cháirez	1.1	4	6
25	Muhammad Mokaev	1.1	7	9
26	Rogerio Bontorin	1.1	5	6
27	John Moraga	1.1	12	14
28	Ben Nguyen	1.0	4	7
29	Clayton Carpenter	1.0	4	6
30	André Lima	1.0	6	7
31	Yuta Sasaki	0.9	3	6
32	Yuki Ito	0.9	6	7
33	Tim Elliott	0.9	16	20
34	John Lineker	0.9	5	8
35	Alexandre Pantoja	0.9	14	19
36	Hiroya Kondo	0.8	3	5
37	Hiromasa Ougikubo	0.8	4	5
38	Allan Nascimento	0.8	4	6
39	Chris Cariaso	0.8	6	9
40	Wilson Reis	0.8	6	11
41	Alessandro Costa	0.7	4	8
42	Jawany Scott	0.7	4	6
43	Davide Scarano	0.7	3	5
44	Jenel Lausa	0.7	3	5
45	Demetrious Johnson	0.6	12	15
46	Lone'er Kavanagh	0.6	4	7
47	Jarred Brooks	0.6	3	6
48	Jussier Formiga	0.6	7	16
49	Matheus Nicolau	0.5	4	10
50	Fran Breen	0.5	2	6
51	Ode Osbourne	0.5	2	8
52	Ryan Benoit	0.5	3	8
53	Daniel Barez	0.5	2	5
54	Justin Scoggins	0.5	3	8
55	Cody Durden	0.5	4	13
56	Joby Sanchez	0.5	2	6
57	Zach Makovsky	0.4	4	10
58	David Dvorak	0.4	3	9
59	Charles Johnson	0.4	5	14
60	Askar Askarov	0.4	2	5
61	Brandon Moreno	0.4	9	21
62	Veronika Smolková	0.3	1	5
63	Alex Perez	0.3	2	14
64	Amir Albazi	0.3	2	6
65	Sumudaerji	0.3	2	8
66	Kyoji Horiguchi	0.3	3	11
67	Joseph Benavidez	0.3	4	19
68	Steve Erceg	0.3	2	8
69	Bruno Silva	0.3	2	11
70	Ali Bagautinov	0.3	2	7
71	Joshua Van	0.3	3	12
72	Raulian Paiva	0.3	1	5
73	Manel Kape	0.2	2	11
74	Dakota Ditcheva	0.2	1	10
75	Jordan Espinosa	0.2	1	7
76	Luis Gurule	0.2	1	5
77	Zhalgas Zhumagulov	0.2	2	10
78	CJ Vergara	0.2	1	9
79	Carlos Hernandez	0.2	1	8
80	Sam Creasey	0.2	1	5
81	Eric Shelton	0.2	1	6
82	Aaron Aby	0.2	1	6
83	Henry Cejudo	0.1	1	9
84	John Dodson	0.1	1	10
85	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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