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	Marlon Vera	16	24
T-2	Raoni Barcelos	14	15
T-2	Rani Yahya	14	14
4	Aljamain Sterling	13	18
T-5	Alex Caceres	12	9
T-5	TJ Dillashaw	12	16
T-7	Mario Bautista	11	15
T-7	Sergio Pettis	11	9
T-7	Filip Macek	11	13
T-10	Dustin Pague	10	6
T-10	Mitch Gagnon	10	8
T-10	Da'Mon Blackshear	10	10
T-13	Kyung Ho Kang	9	12
T-13	John Albert	9	5
T-13	Urijah Faber	9	17
T-16	Jakub Wiklacz	8	5
T-16	Said Nurmagomedov	8	10
T-16	Joe Soto	8	7
T-19	Cody Gibson	7	11
T-19	Vince Morales	7	13
T-19	Pedro Munhoz	7	20
T-19	Roland Delorme	7	6
T-19	Michael McDonald	7	9
T-19	Dustin Kimura	7	5
T-19	Johnny Munoz	7	5
T-19	Saidyokub Kakhramonov	7	5
T-19	Borislav Nikolić	7	7
T-19	Rory Evans	7	6
T-29	Brady Hiestand	6	5
T-29	Iuri Alcantara	6	14
T-29	Matthew Lopez	6	6
T-29	Brett Johns	6	7
T-29	Yuki Motoya	6	5
T-29	Sebastian Przybysz	6	8
T-35	Farid Basharat	5	8
T-35	Merab Dvalishvili	5	17
T-35	Rob Font	5	19
T-35	Raul Rosas Jr.	5	9
T-35	Brian Kelleher	5	11
T-35	Renan Barao	5	13
T-35	Bryan Caraway	5	9
T-35	Leandro Issa	5	5
T-35	Murad Kalamov	5	7
T-35	Miljan Zdravkovic	5	5
T-35	Vazha Tsiptauri	5	6
T-46	Saimon Oliveira	4	5
T-46	Montel Jackson	4	15
T-46	Nathaniel Wood	4	5
T-46	Francisco Rivera	4	10
T-46	Vaughan Lee	4	7
T-46	Russell Doane	4	7
T-46	Rinya Nakamura	4	5
T-46	Shinobu Ota	4	8
T-46	Weslley Maia	4	5
T-46	Vitalii Yakymenko	4	5
T-46	Mansur Khatuev	4	5
T-46	Nkosi Ndebele	4	11
T-46	Shirzad Qadrian	4	6
T-59	Song Yadong	3	16
T-59	Sean O'Malley	3	16
T-59	Cory Sandhagen	3	15
T-59	Ricky Simon	3	18
T-59	Jean Matsumoto	3	6
T-59	Elijah Smith	3	5
T-59	John Castaneda	3	7
T-59	Kyler Phillips	3	11
T-59	Jack Shore	3	6
T-59	Chad Anheliger	3	7
T-59	John Lineker	3	9
T-59	Edwin Figueroa	3	6
T-59	Ivan Menjivar	3	7
T-59	Naoki Inoue	3	7
T-59	Cameron Saaiman	3	7
T-59	Ali Taleb	3	7
T-59	Joji Goto	3	7
T-59	Oleksii Polishchuk	3	5
T-59	Danny Sabatello	3	7
T-59	Oyatullo Muminov	3	5
T-59	Kholmurod Nurmatov	3	7
T-80	Deiveson Figueiredo	2	9
T-80	Victor Henry	2	6
T-80	Davey Grant	2	16
T-80	Ricardo Ramos	2	5
T-80	SuYoung You	2	5
T-80	Petr Yan	2	17
T-80	Ricky Turcios	2	6
T-80	Cristian Quinonez	2	5
T-80	Douglas Silva de Andrade	2	9
T-80	Alejandro Perez	2	11
T-80	Johnny Eduardo	2	8
T-80	Marlon Moraes	2	11
T-80	Tony Gravely	2	9
T-80	Gustavo Lopez	2	6
T-80	Mana Martinez	2	5
T-80	Guido Cannetti	2	10
T-80	Raphael Assuncao	2	18
T-80	Trevin Jones	2	6
T-80	Jose Quinonez	2	8
T-80	Damian Stasiak	2	5
T-80	Henry Briones	2	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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