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 8, 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	Wes Schultz	3.6	7	5
2	Milan Ďatelinka	3.6	3	6
3	Tim Credeur	3.3	8	5
4	Ivan Salaverry	2.9	10	7
5	Rousimar Palhares	2.8	14	11
6	Ricardo Almeida	2.6	10	6
7	Julian Marquez	2.6	12	9
8	Tom Breese	2.5	3	5
9	Rob Kimmons	2.4	8	7
10	Martin Kampmann	2.3	4	5
11	Joe Doerksen	2.3	14	9
12	Bo Nickal	2.3	8	9
13	Jeremy Horn	2.2	11	10
14	Ryan Jensen	2.2	5	8
15	Tom Lawlor	2.2	9	8
16	Jason MacDonald	2.0	11	14
17	Eugene Jackson	1.9	5	7
18	Oskar Piechota	1.9	5	5
19	Mike Massenzio	1.9	5	6
20	Evan Tanner	1.7	11	12
21	Kyle Noke	1.7	4	5
22	Dario Bellandi	1.6	10	5
23	Kendall Grove	1.5	11	12
24	Caio Magalhaes	1.5	6	8
25	Charles Byrd	1.5	3	6
26	Gerald Meerschaert	1.5	22	26
27	Václav Mikulášek	1.5	3	8
28	Dan Miller	1.4	12	11
29	Anthony Hernandez	1.4	15	13
30	Demian Maia	1.4	13	13
31	Josh Fremd	1.3	8	8
32	Ed Herman	1.3	11	15
33	Matt Lindland	1.3	9	11
34	Scott Askham	1.3	8	8
35	CB Dollaway	1.2	12	18
36	Mick Stanton	1.2	5	5
37	Dustin Stoltzfus	1.1	9	12
38	Luke Rockhold	1.1	6	10
39	Andre Petroski	1.1	11	14
40	Karlos Vemola	1.1	6	8
41	Thales Leites	1.1	20	21
42	Andre Muniz	1.1	8	12
43	Kyle Daukaus	1.1	6	10
44	Nassourdine Imavov	1.1	11	10
45	Brendan Allen	1.1	17	19
46	Markus Perez	1.0	5	7
47	Jorge Santiago	1.0	3	5
48	Wellington Turman	1.0	5	7
49	Tresean Gore	1.0	5	8
50	Magnus Cedenblad	1.0	3	6
51	Eric Spicely	1.0	3	8
52	Brad Scott	1.0	4	6
53	Aaron Jeffery	0.9	4	5
54	Jaime Cordero	0.9	3	8
55	Pete Sell	0.9	3	5
56	Joe Pyfer	0.9	5	10
57	Jacare Souza	0.9	8	15
58	Nate Marquardt	0.9	14	23
59	Zach Reese	0.9	4	9
60	Drew McFedries	0.9	1	8
61	Hojat Khajevand	0.9	4	8
62	Garreth McLellan	0.9	3	5
63	Brian Stann	0.9	3	6
64	Mike Swick	0.9	2	6
65	Tim Boetsch	0.8	9	17
66	JunYong Park	0.8	9	13
67	Abus Magomedov	0.8	6	13
68	Rodolfo Vieira	0.8	7	12
69	Chris Weidman	0.8	10	18
70	Torrez Finney	0.8	3	5
71	Alan Belcher	0.8	7	13
72	John Howard	0.8	3	5
73	Antonio Carlos Junior	0.8	6	10
74	Chris Leben	0.8	10	22
75	Joseph Holmes	0.7	2	5
76	Karl Roberson	0.7	3	7
77	Dean Lister	0.7	3	5
78	Francis Carmont	0.7	5	9
79	Ian Heinisch	0.7	4	8
80	Maki Pitolo	0.7	2	6
81	Jacob Malkoun	0.7	5	10
82	Michel Pereira	0.6	3	8
83	Nick Catone	0.6	3	6
84	Roman Dolidze	0.6	6	11
85	Kevin Holland	0.6	7	16
86	Dricus Du Plessis	0.6	7	11
87	Khamzat Chimaev	0.6	3	6
88	Trevor Smith	0.6	6	12
89	Mark Munoz	0.6	5	14
90	Kalib Starnes	0.6	2	5
91	Albert Duraev	0.6	2	5
92	Cody Brundage	0.6	4	14
93	Naglis Kanišauskas	0.6	2	6
94	Samuel Krištofič	0.6	5	11
95	Phil Baroni	0.6	3	9
96	Johnny Eblen	0.6	3	5
97	Cezar Ferreira	0.5	5	13
98	Yushin Okami	0.5	8	18
99	Derek Brunson	0.5	7	22
100	Wanderlei Silva	0.5	1	5

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.

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.

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