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

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