Most submission attempts

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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 9, 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	Marcin Held	182	11
2	Jim Miller	52	46
3	Bubba Jenkins	50	12
4	Charles Oliveira	48	36
5	Clay Collard	33	18
T-6	Chris Lytle	31	20
T-6	Jena Bishop	31	9
8	Joe Lauzon	29	27
9	Demian Maia	27	33
10	Nate Diaz	26	27
11	Darren Elkins	25	31
T-12	Matt Brown	24	30
T-12	Georges St-Pierre	24	22
T-12	Joe Stevenson	24	16
T-12	Cole Miller	24	19
T-12	Nik Lentz	24	24
T-12	Chris Wade	24	23
T-18	Dustin Poirier	23	31
T-18	Rani Yahya	23	20
T-18	Hermes Franca	23	11
T-18	Karol Ryšavý	23	21
T-22	Deiveson Figueiredo	22	23
T-22	Gerald Meerschaert	22	27
T-24	Frank Mir	21	27
T-24	Martin Kampmann	21	17
T-24	Stefan Struve	21	24
T-27	Rafael Dos Anjos	20	37
T-27	Thales Leites	20	21
T-27	Thiago Tavares	20	22
T-30	Chase Hooper	19	15
T-30	Tim Elliott	19	23
T-30	Louis Smolka	19	17
T-30	TJ Waldburger	19	8
T-34	Brendan Allen	18	21
T-34	Marlon Vera	18	27
T-34	Matt Wiman	18	18
T-34	Diego Sanchez	18	32
T-34	Gleison Tibau	18	34
T-34	Karlos Vemola	18	24
T-40	Grant Dawson	17	17
T-40	Jaqueline Amorim	17	7
T-40	Virna Jandiroba	17	14
T-40	Mackenzie Dern	17	17
T-40	Chas Skelly	17	11
T-40	Renato Sobral	17	10
T-40	Ed Herman	17	25
T-40	Kendall Grove	17	13
T-40	Rick Story	17	22
T-40	Steven Siler	17	15
T-40	Antonio Carlos Junior	17	22
T-40	Denis Goltsov	17	19
T-52	Tony Ferguson	16	24
T-52	Clay Guida	16	37
T-52	Glover Teixeira	16	23
T-52	Alex Caceres	16	29
T-52	Matt Hughes	16	25
T-52	Dan Miller	16	13
T-52	Rousimar Palhares	16	12
T-52	Stevie Ray	16	18
T-60	Paul Craig	15	20
T-60	Anthony Hernandez	15	13
T-60	Aleksei Oleinik	15	17
T-60	Evan Tanner	15	17
T-60	Dustin Hazelett	15	10
T-60	Evan Dunham	15	21
T-60	Jacob Volkmann	15	10
T-60	Jason Knight	15	10
T-60	Jimmy Flick	15	7
T-60	Emiliano Sordi	15	14
T-60	Seika Izawa	15	6
T-71	Youssef Zalal	14	13
T-71	Aljamain Sterling	14	23
T-71	Alexandre Pantoja	14	19
T-71	Raoni Barcelos	14	16
T-71	Michael Chiesa	14	22
T-71	Royce Gracie	14	13
T-71	Joe Doerksen	14	9
T-71	Jon Fitch	14	18
T-71	Nate Marquardt	14	25
T-71	Mike Pyle	14	19
T-71	Paul Sass	14	5
T-71	Dennis Bermudez	14	17
T-71	Leandro Silva	14	21
T-71	Brett Johns	14	10
T-71	Marek Bartl	14	19
T-86	Jake Matthews	13	24
T-86	Bryce Mitchell	13	13
T-86	Kevin Holland	13	29
T-86	Benoit Saint Denis	13	14
T-86	Islam Makhachev	13	19
T-86	Thiago Moises	13	17
T-86	Nick Diaz	13	14
T-86	Taila Santos	13	14
T-86	Stephan Bonnar	13	15
T-86	Josh Neer	13	15
T-86	Kenny Florian	13	17
T-86	Ben Saunders	13	19
T-86	CB Dollaway	13	20
T-86	Tom Lawlor	13	13
T-86	Mark Bocek	13	13

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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