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 27, 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	Dustin Hazelett	5.7	14	8
2	TJ Waldburger	4.8	19	8
3	Václav Holota	3.5	12	5
4	Tamdan McCrory	2.8	10	6
5	Yoshiyuki Yoshida	2.8	4	5
6	Daniel Roberts	2.5	11	7
7	Chris Lytle	2.3	31	19
8	Preston Parsons	2.3	10	6
9	Dennis Hallman	2.2	6	6
10	Brent Primus	2.1	9	5
11	Martin Kampmann	2.0	17	12
12	David Mitchell	2.0	9	5
13	Miguel Baeza	2.0	9	7
14	Drew Fickett	1.9	8	7
15	Brian Foster	1.8	3	5
16	Stevie Ray	1.7	7	5
17	Rafael Aronov	1.7	3	6
18	Mickey Gall	1.6	11	13
19	Ivica Trušček	1.6	5	7
20	Marcus Davis	1.5	12	14
21	Luke Cummo	1.5	7	6
22	Tony DeSouza	1.5	4	6
23	Roan Carneiro	1.4	8	7
24	Ramiz Brahimaj	1.4	8	10
25	Erick Silva	1.4	10	15
26	Omiel Brown	1.4	3	5
27	Mike Pyle	1.4	14	19
28	Brock Larson	1.4	4	5
29	Sean Clancy Jr.	1.4	3	5
30	Claudio Silva	1.3	7	7
31	Jeremiah Wells	1.3	7	8
32	Matt Brown	1.3	24	30
33	Ben Saunders	1.3	13	19
34	Justin Edwards	1.3	4	5
35	David Zawada	1.2	7	8
36	Denis Maher	1.2	6	6
37	Paulo Thiago	1.2	12	13
38	Magomed Magomedkerimov	1.2	8	10
39	Shavkat Rakhmonov	1.2	6	7
40	Nick Diaz	1.2	13	13
41	Endrit Brajshori	1.1	2	5
42	Anthony Johnson	1.1	5	10
43	Matt Hughes	1.1	15	23
44	Carlos Newton	1.1	4	5
45	Frank Trigg	1.1	2	7
46	Ray Cooper III	1.1	6	11
47	Louis Glismann	1.1	3	5
48	Ruslan Kolodko	1.1	4	5
49	Georges St-Pierre	1.1	23	21
50	Zak Cummings	1.0	6	8
51	Gabriel Bonfim	1.0	6	9
52	Lincoln Henrique	1.0	3	5
53	Marek Bartl	1.0	2	5
54	Matt Serra	1.0	6	8
55	Karo Parisyan	1.0	9	12
56	Adrian Bartosinski	1.0	7	6
57	Jason Witt	1.0	2	5
58	Nick Osipczak	1.0	4	5
59	Rick Story	1.0	17	22
60	Michael Graves	0.9	3	5
61	AJ Fletcher	0.9	3	5
62	Anthony Rocco Martin	0.9	6	7
63	Josh Neer	0.9	5	10
64	Warlley Alves	0.9	8	13
65	Andreas Michailidis	0.9	3	5
66	Sam Patterson	0.9	2	6
67	Kenny Robertson	0.9	5	9
68	Kevin Burns	0.9	3	5
69	Gunnar Nelson	0.8	9	15
70	Kaik Brito	0.8	4	9
71	DaMarques Johnson	0.8	3	8
72	Sean Brady	0.8	8	11
73	Ramazan Emeev	0.8	5	7
74	Jon Fitch	0.8	12	17
75	Michel Silva	0.8	2	5
76	Leandro Silva	0.8	8	10
77	Michael Chiesa	0.8	6	11
78	Demian Maia	0.8	14	20
79	Mike Malott	0.8	4	9
80	Matouš Kohout	0.8	4	6
81	Bojan Velickovic	0.8	12	21
82	BJ Penn	0.8	5	8
83	Joao Zeferino	0.7	3	6
84	Niko Price	0.7	7	19
85	John Hathaway	0.7	7	11
86	Brad Blackburn	0.7	3	5
87	George Sullivan	0.7	3	7
88	Brandon Thatch	0.7	2	6
89	Dhiego Lima	0.7	4	9
90	Giacomo Michelis	0.7	3	5
91	Pat Miletich	0.7	3	7
92	Paul Taylor	0.7	4	7
93	Joe Riggs	0.7	2	7
94	Carlos Condit	0.7	11	19
95	Jake Matthews	0.7	9	17
96	Vicente Luque	0.6	10	24
97	Olli Santalahti	0.6	3	5
98	Rafael Dos Anjos	0.6	8	11
99	Kevin Holland	0.6	6	12
100	Alex Oliveira	0.6	7	18

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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