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 September 28, 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	Valter Walker	3.6	6	6
2	Vitor Belfort	3.0	3	5
3	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	2.2	8	7
4	Denis Goltsov	2.2	17	19
5	Frank Mir	2.0	21	27
6	Aleksei Oleinik	1.9	15	17
7	Antonio Carlos Junior	1.8	6	5
8	Stefan Struve	1.7	21	24
9	Artem Dushenko	1.7	3	5
10	Tom Aspinall	1.6	2	9
11	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	1.6	10	11
12	Caio Bitencourt	1.5	2	6
13	Alexander Romanov	1.5	12	13
14	Pete Williams	1.4	6	8
15	Kelvin Tiller	1.4	4	6
16	Patrick Vespaziani	1.3	3	6
17	Francimar Barroso	1.3	3	5
18	Miha Frlic	1.2	2	6
19	Jailton Almeida	1.2	8	10
20	Gabriel Gonzaga	1.2	11	22
21	Phil De Fries	1.2	7	11
22	Mike Kyle	1.2	1	5
23	Andre Miranda	1.1	3	5
24	Ricco Rodriguez	1.1	6	7
25	Artur Szpilka	1.0	2	5
26	Cyril Asker	0.9	1	5
27	Kevin Randleman	0.9	5	5
28	Antoni Hardonk	0.9	3	8
29	Tim Hague	0.9	2	5
30	Michal Andryszak	0.9	2	5
31	Muhammed DeReese	0.8	2	8
32	Daniel Dittrich	0.8	2	7
33	Luis Henrique	0.8	4	6
34	Mario Pinto	0.8	2	5
35	Arkadiusz Wrzosek	0.8	1	7
36	Evgeny Erokhin	0.8	3	5
37	Delan Monte	0.7	1	5
38	Josh Barnett	0.7	4	9
39	Paul Buentello	0.7	2	6
40	Jake Collier	0.7	4	8
41	Matt Mitrione	0.7	4	14
42	Brock Lesnar	0.7	2	7
43	Ian Freeman	0.6	2	6
44	Jeff Monson	0.6	3	6
45	Miran Fabjan	0.6	1	5
46	Ciryl Gane	0.6	7	13
47	Renan Ferreira	0.6	2	11
48	Maurice Smith	0.6	3	7
49	Randy Couture	0.5	6	13
50	Ben Rothwell	0.5	6	17
51	Tra Telligman	0.5	1	5
52	Mike Russow	0.5	2	6
53	Fabricio Werdum	0.5	6	18
54	Philipe Lins	0.5	1	5
55	Štefan Vojčák	0.5	2	8
56	Pavel Dailidko	0.4	1	9
57	Mirko Filipovic	0.4	4	17
58	Serghei Spivac	0.4	4	16
59	Viktor Pesta	0.4	2	9
60	Josh Hokit	0.4	1	5
61	Maurice Greene	0.4	3	12
62	Lukasz Brzeski	0.4	2	8
63	Brendan Schaub	0.4	2	10
64	Cain Velasquez	0.4	3	15
65	Rodrigo Nascimento	0.4	3	11
66	Thomas Petersen	0.4	2	8
67	Louie Sutherland	0.4	1	6
68	Valdrin Istrefi	0.3	1	6
69	Stuart Austin	0.3	1	5
70	Brandon Vera	0.3	1	7
71	Mukhumat Vakhaev	0.3	1	5
72	Jake O'Brien	0.3	1	5
73	Marcelo Golm	0.3	1	5
74	Oleg Popov	0.3	2	7
75	Marcin Wojcik	0.3	1	5
76	Marthin Hamlet	0.3	1	5
77	Francis Ngannou	0.3	2	15
78	Sulim Batalov	0.3	1	6
79	Sergey Bilostenniy	0.3	1	5
80	Cheick Kongo	0.3	3	18
81	Jared Rosholt	0.3	3	16
82	Arash Sadeghi	0.3	1	5
83	Parker Porter	0.3	1	8
84	Josh Copeland	0.3	1	6
85	Ruslan Gabaraev	0.2	1	5
86	Alistair Overeem	0.2	3	20
87	Shamil Gaziev	0.2	1	9
88	Maxwell Djantou Nana	0.2	1	5
89	Mick Parkin	0.2	1	6
90	Bruno Cappelozza	0.2	1	8
91	Travis Browne	0.2	2	17
92	Maxim Grishin	0.2	1	6
93	Pat Barry	0.2	1	12
94	Heath Herring	0.2	1	5
95	Ivan Vitasovic	0.2	1	5
96	Szymon Bajor	0.2	1	6
97	Andrei Arlovski	0.2	5	41
98	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	0.2	1	12
99	Elmar Gasanov	0.2	1	5
100	Daniel Cormier	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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