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 September 23, 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	Bouts
1	Marlon Vera	16	24
2	Rani Yahya	14	14
3	Aljamain Sterling	13	18
T-4	Alex Caceres	12	9
T-4	TJ Dillashaw	12	16
T-6	Mario Bautista	11	15
T-6	Filip Macek	11	13
T-8	Dustin Pague	10	6
T-8	Mitch Gagnon	10	8
T-8	Da'Mon Blackshear	10	10
T-11	Raoni Barcelos	9	14
T-11	Kyung Ho Kang	9	12
T-11	John Albert	9	5
T-11	Urijah Faber	9	17
T-11	Yuki Motoya	9	5
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	Jose Torres	7	5
T-19	Johnny Munoz	7	5
T-19	Borislav Nikolić	7	7
T-19	Rory Evans	7	6
T-29	Iuri Alcantara	6	14
T-29	Matthew Lopez	6	6
T-29	Brett Johns	6	7
T-29	Lucie Pudilova	6	11
T-29	Sebastian Przybysz	6	7
T-34	Farid Basharat	5	8
T-34	Merab Dvalishvili	5	16
T-34	Rob Font	5	19
T-34	Raul Rosas Jr.	5	8
T-34	Brian Kelleher	5	11
T-34	Renan Barao	5	13
T-34	Bryan Caraway	5	9
T-34	Leandro Issa	5	5
T-34	Sergio Pettis	5	6
T-34	Murad Kalamov	5	7
T-34	Vazha Tsiptauri	5	5
T-45	Saimon Oliveira	4	5
T-45	Nathaniel Wood	4	5
T-45	Francisco Rivera	4	10
T-45	Vaughan Lee	4	7
T-45	Russell Doane	4	7
T-45	Lucia Szabová	4	7
T-45	Weslley Maia	4	5
T-45	Mansur Khatuev	4	5
T-45	Shirzad Qadrian	4	6
T-54	Song Yadong	3	16
T-54	Sean O'Malley	3	16
T-54	Montel Jackson	3	14
T-54	Cory Sandhagen	3	15
T-54	Ricky Simon	3	17
T-54	Jean Matsumoto	3	6
T-54	Kyler Phillips	3	11
T-54	Jack Shore	3	6
T-54	Chad Anheliger	3	6
T-54	John Lineker	3	9
T-54	Edwin Figueroa	3	6
T-54	Ivan Menjivar	3	7
T-54	Cameron Saaiman	3	7
T-54	Ali Taleb	3	7
T-54	Joji Goto	3	7
T-54	Danny Sabatello	3	6
T-54	Josiel Silva	3	7
T-54	Kholmurod Nurmatov	3	6
T-72	Deiveson Figueiredo	2	8
T-72	Victor Henry	2	6
T-72	Davey Grant	2	15
T-72	Ricardo Ramos	2	5
T-72	Petr Yan	2	16
T-72	Ricky Turcios	2	6
T-72	Cristian Quinonez	2	5
T-72	Douglas Silva de Andrade	2	9
T-72	Alejandro Perez	2	11
T-72	Johnny Eduardo	2	8
T-72	Marlon Moraes	2	11
T-72	Tony Gravely	2	9
T-72	Gustavo Lopez	2	6
T-72	Mana Martinez	2	5
T-72	Guido Cannetti	2	10
T-72	Raphael Assuncao	2	18
T-72	Trevin Jones	2	6
T-72	Jose Quinonez	2	8
T-72	Damian Stasiak	2	5
T-72	Henry Briones	2	5
T-72	Jonas Mågård	2	9
T-72	Nkosi Ndebele	2	9
T-72	Osimkhon Rakhmonov	2	5
T-72	Carlo Bumina-ang	2	8
T-96	Aoriqileng	1	8
T-96	Chris Gutierrez	1	12
T-96	Umar Nurmagomedov	1	10
T-96	Henry Cejudo	1	7
T-96	Payton Talbott	1	7

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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