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

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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