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 30, 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	Chris Lytle	31	19
2	Matt Brown	24	30
3	Georges St-Pierre	23	21
4	TJ Waldburger	19	8
T-5	Martin Kampmann	17	12
T-5	Rick Story	17	22
7	Matt Hughes	15	23
T-8	Dustin Hazelett	14	8
T-8	Demian Maia	14	20
T-8	Mike Pyle	14	19
T-11	Nick Diaz	13	13
T-11	Ben Saunders	13	19
T-13	Marcus Davis	12	14
T-13	Jon Fitch	12	17
T-13	Paulo Thiago	12	13
T-13	Bojan Velickovic	12	21
T-13	Václav Holota	12	5
T-18	Mickey Gall	11	13
T-18	Carlos Condit	11	19
T-18	Daniel Roberts	11	7
T-21	Vicente Luque	10	24
T-21	Preston Parsons	10	6
T-21	Tamdan McCrory	10	6
T-21	Erick Silva	10	15
T-25	Jake Matthews	9	17
T-25	Neil Magny	9	38
T-25	Miguel Baeza	9	7
T-25	Gunnar Nelson	9	15
T-25	Karo Parisyan	9	12
T-25	Diego Sanchez	9	19
T-25	David Mitchell	9	5
T-25	Brent Primus	9	5
T-33	Sean Brady	8	11
T-33	Ramiz Brahimaj	8	10
T-33	Leon Edwards	8	19
T-33	Randy Brown	8	22
T-33	Rafael Dos Anjos	8	11
T-33	Drew Fickett	8	7
T-33	Roan Carneiro	8	7
T-33	Leandro Silva	8	10
T-33	Warlley Alves	8	13
T-33	Magomed Magomedkerimov	8	10
T-43	Jeremiah Wells	7	8
T-43	Niko Price	7	19
T-43	Alex Oliveira	7	18
T-43	David Zawada	7	8
T-43	Josh Koscheck	7	24
T-43	Luke Cummo	7	6
T-43	John Hathaway	7	11
T-43	Rory MacDonald	7	17
T-43	Claudio Silva	7	7
T-43	Stevie Ray	7	5
T-43	Adrian Bartosinski	7	6
T-54	Gabriel Bonfim	6	9
T-54	Kevin Holland	6	12
T-54	Alex Morono	6	22
T-54	Michael Chiesa	6	11
T-54	Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	6	18
T-54	Shavkat Rakhmonov	6	7
T-54	Court McGee	6	19
T-54	Matt Serra	6	8
T-54	Dennis Hallman	6	6
T-54	Thiago Alves	6	26
T-54	Dong Hyun Kim	6	17
T-54	Johny Hendricks	6	18
T-54	Zak Cummings	6	8
T-54	Anthony Rocco Martin	6	7
T-54	David Kozma	6	18
T-54	Ray Cooper III	6	11
T-54	Denis Maher	6	6
T-71	Ramazan Emeev	5	7
T-71	BJ Penn	5	8
T-71	Josh Neer	5	10
T-71	Anthony Johnson	5	10
T-71	Nate Diaz	5	10
T-71	Kenny Robertson	5	9
T-71	Sergio Moraes	5	13
T-71	Ivica Trušček	5	7
T-79	Michel Pereira	4	8
T-79	Mike Malott	4	9
T-79	Ian Machado Garry	4	12
T-79	Max Griffin	4	19
T-79	Bryan Barberena	4	15
T-79	Carlos Newton	4	5
T-79	Tony DeSouza	4	6
T-79	Joshua Burkman	4	14
T-79	Brock Larson	4	5
T-79	Paul Taylor	4	7
T-79	Keita Nakamura	4	11
T-79	Yoshiyuki Yoshida	4	5
T-79	Nick Osipczak	4	5
T-79	Peter Sobotta	4	10
T-79	John Howard	4	15
T-79	Jake Ellenberger	4	21
T-79	Justin Edwards	4	5
T-79	Donald Cerrone	4	14
T-79	Elias Silverio	4	8
T-79	Dhiego Lima	4	9
T-79	Kaik Brito	4	9
T-79	Matouš Kohout	4	6

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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