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	52	46
3	Bubba Jenkins	50	12
4	Charles Oliveira	48	36
5	Clay Collard	33	18
6	Chris Lytle	31	20
7	Joe Lauzon	29	27
8	Demian Maia	27	33
9	Nate Diaz	26	27
10	Darren Elkins	25	31
T-11	Matt Brown	24	30
T-11	Georges St-Pierre	24	22
T-11	Joe Stevenson	24	16
T-11	Cole Miller	24	19
T-11	Nik Lentz	24	24
T-11	Chris Wade	24	23
T-17	Dustin Poirier	23	31
T-17	Rani Yahya	23	20
T-17	Hermes Franca	23	11
T-17	Karol Ryšavý	23	20
T-21	Deiveson Figueiredo	22	22
T-21	Gerald Meerschaert	22	26
T-23	Frank Mir	21	27
T-23	Martin Kampmann	21	17
T-23	Stefan Struve	21	24
T-26	Rafael Dos Anjos	20	36
T-26	Thales Leites	20	21
T-26	Thiago Tavares	20	22
T-29	Chase Hooper	19	15
T-29	Tim Elliott	19	23
T-29	Louis Smolka	19	17
T-29	TJ Waldburger	19	8
T-29	Jena Bishop	19	8
T-34	Marlon Vera	18	27
T-34	Matt Wiman	18	18
T-34	Diego Sanchez	18	32
T-34	Gleison Tibau	18	33
T-34	Karlos Vemola	18	23
T-39	Jaqueline Amorim	17	7
T-39	Mackenzie Dern	17	17
T-39	Chas Skelly	17	11
T-39	Renato Sobral	17	10
T-39	Ed Herman	17	25
T-39	Kendall Grove	17	13
T-39	Rick Story	17	22
T-39	Steven Siler	17	15
T-39	Antonio Carlos Junior	17	22
T-39	Denis Goltsov	17	18
T-49	Grant Dawson	16	16
T-49	Brendan Allen	16	20
T-49	Virna Jandiroba	16	13
T-49	Tony Ferguson	16	24
T-49	Clay Guida	16	37
T-49	Glover Teixeira	16	23
T-49	Alex Caceres	16	29
T-49	Matt Hughes	16	25
T-49	Dan Miller	16	13
T-49	Rousimar Palhares	16	12
T-49	Stevie Ray	16	18
T-60	Paul Craig	15	20
T-60	Anthony Hernandez	15	13
T-60	Aleksei Oleinik	15	17
T-60	Evan Tanner	15	17
T-60	Dustin Hazelett	15	10
T-60	Evan Dunham	15	21
T-60	Jacob Volkmann	15	10
T-60	Jason Knight	15	10
T-60	Jimmy Flick	15	7
T-60	Emiliano Sordi	15	13
T-60	Seika Izawa	15	6
T-71	Youssef Zalal	14	13
T-71	Aljamain Sterling	14	23
T-71	Alexandre Pantoja	14	19
T-71	Michael Chiesa	14	22
T-71	Royce Gracie	14	13
T-71	Joe Doerksen	14	9
T-71	Jon Fitch	14	18
T-71	Nate Marquardt	14	25
T-71	Mike Pyle	14	19
T-71	Paul Sass	14	5
T-71	Dennis Bermudez	14	17
T-71	Leandro Silva	14	21
T-71	Brett Johns	14	10
T-84	Jake Matthews	13	24
T-84	Bryce Mitchell	13	13
T-84	Kevin Holland	13	29
T-84	Benoit Saint Denis	13	14
T-84	Islam Makhachev	13	19
T-84	Thiago Moises	13	17
T-84	Nick Diaz	13	14
T-84	Taila Santos	13	14
T-84	Stephan Bonnar	13	15
T-84	Josh Neer	13	15
T-84	Kenny Florian	13	17
T-84	Ben Saunders	13	19
T-84	CB Dollaway	13	20
T-84	Tom Lawlor	13	13
T-84	Mark Bocek	13	13
T-84	Daniel Pineda	13	13
T-84	Liz Carmouche	13	17

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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