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	Marcin Held	182	11
2	Jim Miller	49	43
3	Charles Oliveira	32	24
4	Clay Collard	31	14
5	Joe Lauzon	29	27
6	Hermes Franca	22	10
7	Nik Lentz	21	16
T-8	Nate Diaz	20	16
T-8	Cole Miller	20	10
T-10	Matt Wiman	18	18
T-10	Joe Stevenson	18	13
T-10	Thiago Tavares	18	18
T-13	Tony Ferguson	16	21
T-13	Gleison Tibau	16	27
T-15	Clay Guida	15	30
T-15	Dustin Poirier	15	20
T-15	Evan Dunham	15	20
T-18	Paul Sass	14	5
T-18	Jacob Volkmann	14	8
T-20	Islam Makhachev	13	16
T-20	Thiago Moises	13	17
T-20	Mark Bocek	13	13
T-20	Chris Wade	13	13
T-24	Beneil Dariush	12	26
T-24	Rafael Dos Anjos	12	24
T-24	Stevie Ray	12	16
T-27	Kevin Lee	11	17
T-27	Karol Ryšavý	11	13
T-29	Benoit Saint Denis	10	12
T-29	Joe Solecki	10	10
T-29	Francisco Trinaldo	10	21
T-29	Yves Edwards	10	19
T-29	Kenny Florian	10	12
T-29	Tyson Griffin	10	12
T-29	Terry Etim	10	11
T-29	Efrain Escudero	10	12
T-29	Anthony Pettis	10	19
T-38	Jeremy Stephens	9	21
T-38	Grant Dawson	9	11
T-38	Diego Sanchez	9	11
T-38	Paul Kelly	9	6
T-38	Rafaello Oliveira	9	8
T-38	Benson Henderson	9	12
T-38	Khabib Nurmagomedov	9	12
T-38	Olivier Aubin-Mercier	9	20
T-38	Brent Primus	9	7
T-38	Arcangelo Oliveira	9	5
T-48	Dan Hooker	8	18
T-48	Paddy Pimblett	8	9
T-48	Din Thomas	8	9
T-48	Josh Neer	8	5
T-48	George Sotiropoulos	8	9
T-48	Gray Maynard	8	16
T-48	Shannon Gugerty	8	5
T-48	Ramsey Nijem	8	11
T-48	Joe Proctor	8	7
T-48	Luis Pena	8	7
T-58	Joaquim Silva	7	12
T-58	Claudio Puelles	7	8
T-58	Chase Hooper	7	8
T-58	Michael Chiesa	7	10
T-58	BJ Penn	7	16
T-58	Spencer Fisher	7	15
T-58	Kurt Pellegrino	7	11
T-58	Donald Cerrone	7	23
T-58	Jon Tuck	7	9
T-58	Anthony Rocco Martin	7	8
T-58	Mike Davis	7	8
T-58	Adrian Lee	7	5
T-58	Ramazan Gitinov	7	5
T-71	King Green	6	28
T-71	Matt Frevola	6	13
T-71	Diego Ferreira	6	18
T-71	Jalin Turner	6	14
T-71	Gilbert Burns	6	10
T-71	Frankie Edgar	6	13
T-71	Jamie Varner	6	9
T-71	James Krause	6	8
T-71	Michel Prazeres	6	9
T-71	Denis Frimpong	6	6
T-71	Elvin Espinoza	6	6
T-82	Joel Álvarez	5	9
T-82	Jordan Leavitt	5	9
T-82	Farès Ziam	5	12
T-82	Tom Nolan	5	7
T-82	Terrance McKinney	5	14
T-82	Ignacio Bahamondes	5	9
T-82	Renato Moicano	5	11
T-82	Rich Clementi	5	7
T-82	Mac Danzig	5	12
T-82	Fabricio Camoes	5	6
T-82	Cody McKenzie	5	5
T-82	Yancy Medeiros	5	10
T-82	James Vick	5	13
T-82	Andrew Holbrook	5	5
T-82	Roosevelt Roberts	5	9
T-82	Ivan Buchinger	5	9
T-82	Hafeni Nafuka	5	5
T-82	Tariq Pell	5	5
100	Trey Ogden	4	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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