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
T-1	Frank Mir	21	27
T-1	Stefan Struve	21	24
3	Denis Goltsov	17	18
4	Aleksei Oleinik	15	17
5	Alexander Romanov	12	13
6	Gabriel Gonzaga	11	22
7	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	10	11
T-8	Jailton Almeida	8	10
T-8	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	8	7
T-10	Ciryl Gane	7	13
T-10	Phil De Fries	7	11
T-12	Valter Walker	6	6
T-12	Randy Couture	6	13
T-12	Ben Rothwell	6	17
T-12	Pete Williams	6	8
T-12	Ricco Rodriguez	6	7
T-12	Fabricio Werdum	6	18
T-18	Andrei Arlovski	5	41
T-18	Kevin Randleman	5	5
T-20	Serghei Spivac	4	16
T-20	Jake Collier	4	8
T-20	Josh Barnett	4	9
T-20	Mirko Filipovic	4	17
T-20	Matt Mitrione	4	14
T-20	Luis Henrique	4	6
T-20	Kelvin Tiller	4	6
T-27	Maurice Smith	3	7
T-27	Vitor Belfort	3	5
T-27	Jeff Monson	3	6
T-27	Antoni Hardonk	3	8
T-27	Cheick Kongo	3	18
T-27	Cain Velasquez	3	15
T-27	Alistair Overeem	3	20
T-27	Jared Rosholt	3	16
T-27	Francimar Barroso	3	5
T-27	Maurice Greene	3	12
T-27	Rodrigo Nascimento	3	11
T-27	Patrick Vespaziani	3	6
T-27	Evgeny Erokhin	3	5
T-27	Artem Dushenko	3	5
T-27	Andre Miranda	3	5
T-42	Alexander Volkov	2	19
T-42	Thomas Petersen	2	8
T-42	Mario Pinto	2	5
T-42	Marcin Tybura	2	25
T-42	Tom Aspinall	2	9
T-42	Francis Ngannou	2	15
T-42	Ian Freeman	2	6
T-42	Paul Buentello	2	6
T-42	Brock Lesnar	2	7
T-42	Tim Hague	2	5
T-42	Brendan Schaub	2	10
T-42	Travis Browne	2	17
T-42	Mike Russow	2	6
T-42	Viktor Pesta	2	8
T-42	Lukasz Brzeski	2	8
T-42	Daniel Dittrich	2	7
T-42	Štefan Vojčák	2	8
T-42	Muhammed DeReese	2	8
T-42	Renan Ferreira	2	11
T-42	Michal Andryszak	2	5
T-42	Artur Szpilka	2	5
T-42	Oleg Popov	2	7
T-42	Miha Frlic	2	6
T-42	Caio Bitencourt	2	6
T-66	Josh Hokit	1	5
T-66	Waldo Cortes Acosta	1	15
T-66	Shamil Gaziev	1	9
T-66	Louie Sutherland	1	5
T-66	Shamil Abdurakhimov	1	11
T-66	Tra Telligman	1	5
T-66	Blagoy Ivanov	1	9
T-66	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	1	12
T-66	Philipe Lins	1	5
T-66	Martin Buday	1	16
T-66	Maxim Grishin	1	6
T-66	Josh Parisian	1	10
T-66	Parker Porter	1	8
T-66	Mike Kyle	1	5
T-66	Brandon Vera	1	7
T-66	Jake O'Brien	1	5
T-66	Tim Sylvia	1	13
T-66	Heath Herring	1	5
T-66	Pat Barry	1	12
T-66	Junior Dos Santos	1	23
T-66	Roy Nelson	1	18
T-66	Mark Hunt	1	17
T-66	Daniel Cormier	1	6
T-66	Walt Harris	1	15
T-66	Daniel Omielanczuk	1	9
T-66	Josh Copeland	1	6
T-66	Cyril Asker	1	5
T-66	Marcelo Golm	1	5
T-66	Darko Stosic	1	9
T-66	Karl Williams	1	9
T-66	Mick Parkin	1	6
T-66	Lazar Todev	1	9
T-66	Michal Martínek	1	12
T-66	Hatef Moeil	1	7
T-66	Stuart Austin	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.

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