Most submission attempts

Name: 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 28, 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	Deiveson Figueiredo	20	14
2	Louis Smolka	18	10
3	Tim Elliott	16	20
4	Jimmy Flick	15	7
5	Alexandre Pantoja	14	19
T-6	Brandon Royval	12	13
T-6	Demetrious Johnson	12	15
T-6	John Moraga	12	14
T-9	Asu Almabayev	11	9
T-9	Ray Borg	11	9
T-11	Tagir Ulanbekov	10	8
T-11	Neil Seery	10	7
T-13	Tatsuro Taira	9	9
T-13	Brandon Moreno	9	21
T-15	Matt Schnell	8	12
T-15	Jafel Filho	8	6
T-15	Bidzina Gavashelishvili	8	5
T-18	Jake Hadley	7	6
T-18	Muhammad Mokaev	7	9
T-18	Jussier Formiga	7	16
T-18	Erson Yamamoto	7	7
T-18	Makoto Takahashi	7	9
T-18	Avazbek Kholmirzaev	7	5
T-24	André Lima	6	7
T-24	Jesus Aguilar	6	8
T-24	Joseph Morales	6	5
T-24	Chris Cariaso	6	9
T-24	Wilson Reis	6	11
T-24	Yuki Ito	6	7
T-30	Charles Johnson	5	14
T-30	Rogerio Bontorin	5	6
T-30	John Lineker	5	8
T-30	Paddy Holohan	5	5
T-34	Clayton Carpenter	4	6
T-34	Édgar Cháirez	4	6
T-34	Allan Nascimento	4	6
T-34	Alessandro Costa	4	8
T-34	Lone'er Kavanagh	4	7
T-34	Cody Durden	4	13
T-34	Matheus Nicolau	4	10
T-34	Joseph Benavidez	4	19
T-34	Zach Makovsky	4	10
T-34	Ben Nguyen	4	7
T-34	Hiromasa Ougikubo	4	5
T-34	Jawany Scott	4	6
T-46	Joshua Van	3	12
T-46	Kyoji Horiguchi	3	11
T-46	Malcolm Gordon	3	6
T-46	David Dvorak	3	9
T-46	Justin Scoggins	3	8
T-46	Yuta Sasaki	3	6
T-46	Ryan Benoit	3	8
T-46	Jenel Lausa	3	5
T-46	Jarred Brooks	3	6
T-46	Hiroya Kondo	3	5
T-46	Davide Scarano	3	5
T-57	Daniel Barez	2	5
T-57	Alex Perez	2	14
T-57	Manel Kape	2	11
T-57	Bruno Silva	2	11
T-57	Sumudaerji	2	8
T-57	Ode Osbourne	2	8
T-57	Amir Albazi	2	6
T-57	Steve Erceg	2	8
T-57	Daniel Lacerda	2	5
T-57	Zhalgas Zhumagulov	2	10
T-57	Askar Askarov	2	5
T-57	Ali Bagautinov	2	7
T-57	Joby Sanchez	2	6
T-57	Fran Breen	2	6
T-71	Luis Gurule	1	5
T-71	Henry Cejudo	1	9
T-71	CJ Vergara	1	9
T-71	Carlos Hernandez	1	8
T-71	Raulian Paiva	1	5
T-71	John Dodson	1	10
T-71	Dustin Ortiz	1	14
T-71	Eric Shelton	1	6
T-71	Jordan Espinosa	1	7
T-71	Veronika Smolková	1	5
T-71	Aaron Aby	1	6
T-71	Sam Creasey	1	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.

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.