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 November 5, 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
1	Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev	6.8	3	5
2	Tom Breese	6.4	4	5
3	Frank Shamrock	3.9	9	5
4	Renato Sobral	3.4	15	9
5	Emiliano Sordi	2.8	15	14
6	Wilson Gouveia	2.6	7	6
7	Eric Schafer	2.5	9	7
8	Mateusz Strzelczyk	2.4	5	6
9	Evan Tanner	2.3	4	5
10	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	2.3	3	6
11	Misha Cirkunov	2.3	6	11
12	Jimmy Crute	2.0	11	13
13	Jason Lambert	2.0	5	7
14	Anthony Perosh	1.9	5	9
15	Marcin Wojcik	1.8	4	6
16	Vinny Magalhaes	1.7	6	10
17	Ruslan Shamilov	1.6	7	6
18	Paul Craig	1.6	13	16
19	Ryan Spann	1.6	8	14
20	Sam Hoger	1.3	6	5
21	Antonio Carlos Junior	1.3	10	11
22	Vinicius Moreira	1.3	2	5
23	Jason Brilz	1.3	6	7
24	Stephan Bonnar	1.2	13	14
25	Karlos Vemola	1.2	8	9
26	Miloš Petrášek	1.2	5	7
27	Gadzhimurad Antigulov	1.1	2	7
28	Krzysztof Soszynski	1.1	6	9
29	Tom Lawlor	1.1	4	5
30	Andres Ramos	1.1	4	7
31	David Heath	1.0	3	5
32	Daniel Cormier	1.0	7	8
33	Eliot Marshall	0.9	4	6
34	Vitor Belfort	0.9	4	7
35	Glover Teixeira	0.9	16	23
36	Impa Kasanganay	0.9	5	9
37	Nikita Krylov	0.8	8	20
38	Randy Couture	0.7	5	10
39	Johnny Walker	0.7	6	16
40	Delan Monte	0.7	1	5
41	Cory Hendricks	0.7	4	6
42	Oumar Sy	0.7	3	7
43	Simeon Powell	0.7	5	9
44	Joshua Silveira	0.7	4	9
45	Bogdan Guskov	0.7	3	7
46	Lyoto Machida	0.7	8	15
47	Attila Végh	0.7	3	6
48	Forrest Griffin	0.7	7	14
49	Elvis Sinosic	0.7	2	6
50	Brendson Ribeiro	0.6	3	10
51	Daniel Škvor	0.6	3	14
52	James Irvin	0.6	1	8
53	Fabio Maldonado	0.6	5	9
54	Vitor Petrino	0.6	3	7
55	Tyson Pedro	0.6	4	13
56	Rob Wilkinson	0.6	3	10
57	Billy Elekana	0.6	2	5
58	Sean O'Connell	0.6	3	11
59	Ed Herman	0.6	4	9
60	Damian Piwowarczyk	0.6	1	7
61	Dan Spohn	0.6	3	8
62	Abdul-Rahman Dzhanaev	0.6	2	5
63	Artem Frolov	0.5	2	5
64	Tim Boetsch	0.5	2	7
65	Ilir Latifi	0.5	3	12
66	Dan Henderson	0.5	4	8
67	Anthony Smith	0.5	6	18
68	Phil Davis	0.5	6	14
69	Rakim Cleveland	0.5	1	5
70	Jon Jones	0.5	10	21
71	Pavol Langer	0.5	3	11
72	Murad Abdulaev	0.4	2	5
73	Ryan Bader	0.4	6	19
74	Tito Ortiz	0.4	8	23
75	Thiago Silva	0.4	2	10
76	Alexander Gustafsson	0.4	5	17
77	Jordan Johnson	0.4	2	6
78	Ivan Bogdanov	0.4	1	5
79	Ovince Saint Preux	0.4	6	26
80	Alex Pereira	0.4	2	7
81	Rafael Xavier	0.4	2	10
82	Jan Blachowicz	0.4	7	23
83	Jimi Manuwa	0.4	2	12
84	Marthin Hamlet	0.3	2	10
85	Vladimir Vasilyev	0.3	2	6
86	Nell Ariano	0.3	1	5
87	Julius Walker	0.3	1	5
88	Omari Akhmedov	0.3	1	5
89	Igor Pokrajac	0.3	2	12
90	Will Fleury	0.3	1	5
91	James Te Huna	0.3	1	9
92	Ion Cuțelaba	0.3	3	21
93	Edil Esengulov	0.3	1	5
94	Cyrille Diabate	0.3	1	8
95	Dominick Reyes	0.2	2	16
96	Rogerio Nogueira	0.2	2	13
97	Kennedy Nzechukwu	0.2	2	13
98	Mauricio Rua	0.2	4	24
99	Azamat Murzakanov	0.2	1	9
100	Magomed Ankalaev	0.2	3	16

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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