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 24, 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	Glover Teixeira	16	23
2	Renato Sobral	15	9
T-3	Paul Craig	13	16
T-3	Stephan Bonnar	13	14
5	Jimmy Crute	11	13
T-6	Jon Jones	10	21
T-6	Antonio Carlos Junior	10	11
T-6	Emiliano Sordi	10	12
T-9	Frank Shamrock	9	5
T-9	Eric Schafer	9	7
T-11	Nikita Krylov	8	19
T-11	Ryan Spann	8	14
T-11	Tito Ortiz	8	23
T-11	Lyoto Machida	8	15
T-11	Karlos Vemola	8	9
T-16	Jan Blachowicz	7	23
T-16	Wilson Gouveia	7	6
T-16	Forrest Griffin	7	14
T-16	Daniel Cormier	7	8
T-16	Ruslan Shamilov	7	6
T-21	Misha Cirkunov	6	11
T-21	Anthony Smith	6	18
T-21	Ovince Saint Preux	6	26
T-21	Sam Hoger	6	5
T-21	Krzysztof Soszynski	6	9
T-21	Ryan Bader	6	19
T-21	Vinny Magalhaes	6	10
T-21	Jason Brilz	6	7
T-21	Phil Davis	6	14
T-21	Johnny Mendez Walker	6	16
T-31	Impa Kasanganay	5	9
T-31	Randy Couture	5	10
T-31	Jason Lambert	5	7
T-31	Anthony Perosh	5	9
T-31	Alexander Gustafsson	5	17
T-31	Fabio Maldonado	5	9
T-31	Mateusz Strzelczyk	5	6
T-31	Miloš Petrášek	5	8
T-31	Joshua Silveira	5	10
T-40	Vitor Belfort	4	7
T-40	Mauricio Rua	4	24
T-40	Tyson Pedro	4	11
T-40	Evan Tanner	4	5
T-40	Dan Henderson	4	8
T-40	Ed Herman	4	9
T-40	Eliot Marshall	4	6
T-40	Tom Lawlor	4	5
T-40	Tom Breese	4	5
T-40	Cory Hendricks	4	6
T-40	Marcin Wojcik	4	5
T-40	Andres Ramos	4	7
T-52	Ion Cuțelaba	3	21
T-52	Vitor Petrino	3	7
T-52	Magomed Ankalaev	3	16
T-52	Oumar Sy	3	7
T-52	Bogdan Guskov	3	7
T-52	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	3	6
T-52	David Heath	3	5
T-52	Ilir Latifi	3	12
T-52	Sean O'Connell	3	11
T-52	Rob Wilkinson	3	8
T-52	Attila Végh	3	6
T-52	Daniel Škvor	3	13
T-52	Pavol Langer	3	11
T-52	Dan Spohn	3	7
T-52	Simeon Powell	3	7
T-67	Alonzo Menifield	2	21
T-67	Billy Elekana	2	5
T-67	Alex Pereira	2	7
T-67	Dominick Reyes	2	15
T-67	Brendson Ribeiro	2	9
T-67	Kennedy Nzechukwu	2	13
T-67	Elvis Sinosic	2	6
T-67	Thiago Silva	2	10
T-67	Tim Boetsch	2	7
T-67	Igor Pokrajac	2	12
T-67	Rogerio Nogueira	2	13
T-67	Jimi Manuwa	2	12
T-67	Gadzhimurad Antigulov	2	7
T-67	Jordan Johnson	2	6
T-67	Vinicius Moreira	2	5
T-67	Rafael Xavier	2	8
T-67	Marthin Hamlet	2	10
T-67	Vladimir Vasilyev	2	6
T-85	Modestas Bukauskas	1	13
T-85	Rodolfo Bellato	1	6
T-85	Jiri Prochazka	1	9
T-85	Carlos Ulberg	1	12
T-85	Volkan Oezdemir	1	16
T-85	Aleksandar Rakic	1	11
T-85	Azamat Murzakanov	1	8
T-85	Marcin Prachnio	1	12
T-85	William Knight	1	7
T-85	Maxim Grishin	1	8
T-85	Da Woon Jung	1	9
T-85	Vladimir Matyushenko	1	9
T-85	James Irvin	1	8
T-85	Brandon Vera	1	9
T-85	James Te Huna	1	9
T-85	Cyrille Diabate	1	8

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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