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 6, 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	Bubba Jenkins	50	12
2	Darren Elkins	25	29
T-3	Chas Skelly	17	11
T-3	Steven Siler	17	15
5	Charles Oliveira	16	12
6	Jason Knight	15	10
T-7	Youssef Zalal	13	12
T-7	Daniel Pineda	13	13
T-9	Chase Hooper	12	7
T-9	Dennis Bermudez	12	15
T-9	Karol Ryšavý	12	6
T-12	Bryce Mitchell	11	11
T-12	Charles Rosa	11	11
T-12	Damon Jackson	11	12
T-12	Chris Wade	11	10
T-12	Jan Masek	11	5
T-17	Diego Lopes	10	10
T-17	Brian Ortega	10	12
T-17	Ricardo Lamas	10	17
T-17	Kleber Koike Erbst	10	6
T-21	Pat Sabatini	9	11
T-21	Max Holloway	9	27
T-21	Makwan Amirkhani	9	14
T-21	Darrick Minner	9	7
T-21	Rani Yahya	9	6
T-21	Jordan Griffin	9	6
T-21	Islam Reda	9	5
T-28	Joanderson Brito	8	12
T-28	Dustin Poirier	8	11
T-28	Gabriel Benitez	8	10
T-31	Christian Rodriguez	7	7
T-31	Ricardo Ramos	7	10
T-31	Chan Sung Jung	7	12
T-31	TJ Brown	7	8
T-31	Billy Quarantillo	7	11
T-31	Godofredo Pepey	7	10
T-31	Gavin Tucker	7	7
T-31	Patryk Kaczmarczyk	7	6
T-31	Taha Bendaoud	7	5
T-31	Shamil Gasanov	7	5
T-41	Melquizael Costa	6	8
T-41	Ilia Topuria	6	7
T-41	Charles Jourdain	6	12
T-41	Steven Peterson	6	8
T-41	Jimy Hettes	6	6
T-41	Sam Sicilia	6	11
T-41	Jakub Tichota	6	8
T-41	Vugar Karamov	6	6
T-41	Kazumasa Majima	6	8
T-41	Alexei Pergande	6	6
T-51	Yadier del Valle	5	5
T-51	Lerone Murphy	5	11
T-51	Nate Landwehr	5	11
T-51	Jonathan Pearce	5	8
T-51	Michihiro Omigawa	5	5
T-51	Hatsu Hioki	5	8
T-51	Rony Jason	5	10
T-51	Bobby Moffett	5	5
T-51	Dawid Kareta	5	7
T-51	Lance Palmer	5	11
T-61	Arnold Allen	4	15
T-61	Kyle Nelson	4	8
T-61	Jean Silva	4	8
T-61	Alexander Volkanovski	4	15
T-61	Dan Ige	4	21
T-61	Andre Fili	4	27
T-61	Yair Rodriguez	4	14
T-61	Frankie Edgar	4	13
T-61	Shane Burgos	4	11
T-61	Alex Caceres	4	20
T-61	Cole Miller	4	9
T-61	Enrique Barzola	4	11
T-61	Zabit Magomedsharipov	4	6
T-61	Herbert Burns	4	6
T-61	Jakub Batfalský	4	7
T-61	Marco Novák	4	7
T-61	Deniz Ilbay	4	8
T-61	James Hendin	4	5
T-61	Alexandre Almeida	4	5
T-61	Pedro Dantas	4	5
T-61	Solomon Simon	4	5
T-61	Marko Ančić	4	6
T-83	Hyder Amil	3	7
T-83	Harry Hardwick	3	5
T-83	Dooho Choi	3	11
T-83	Francis Marshall	3	7
T-83	Julian Erosa	3	16
T-83	Julio Arce	3	9
T-83	Sean Woodson	3	11
T-83	Jose Aldo	3	15
T-83	Sodiq Yusuff	3	11
T-83	Felipe Arantes	3	8
T-83	Pablo Garza	3	6
T-83	Hacran Dias	3	7
T-83	Mirsad Bektic	3	10
T-83	Sheymon Moraes	3	10
T-83	Niko Samsonidse	3	6
T-83	Andre Harrison	3	6
T-83	Brahyam Zurcher	3	5
T-83	Nathan Kelly	3	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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