Most time in the cage

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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 21, 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 time in the cage	Fights	Bouts
1	Max Holloway	6h 59m	27	27
2	Darren Elkins	5h 50m	29	29
3	Cub Swanson	5h 1m	25	25
4	Andre Fili	4h 43m	26	26
5	Dan Ige	4h 19m	21	21
6	Alexander Volkanovski	4h 13m	14	14
7	Jose Aldo	4h 1m	15	15
8	Alex Caceres	3h 58m	20	20
9	Calvin Kattar	3h 42m	15	15
10	Arnold Allen	3h 37m	15	15
11	Jeremy Stephens	3h 33m	17	17
12	Frankie Edgar	3h 25m	13	13
13	Yair Rodriguez	3h 16m	14	14
14	Dennis Bermudez	2h 57m	15	15
15	Ricardo Lamas	2h 55m	17	17
16	Giga Chikadze	2h 49m	14	14
17	Brian Ortega	2h 47m	12	12
18	Brendan Loughnane	2h 46m	14	14
19	Josh Emmett	2h 46m	14	14
20	Enrique Barzola	2h 45m	11	11
21	Lerone Murphy	2h 43m	11	11
22	Chan Sung Jung	2h 31m	12	12
23	Charles Rosa	2h 29m	11	11
24	Youssef Zalal	2h 28m	12	12
25	Movsar Evloev	2h 25m	9	9
26	Charles Jourdain	2h 21m	12	12
27	Movlid Khaybulaev	2h 21m	11	11
28	Steven Siler	2h 21m	15	15
29	Shane Burgos	2h 21m	11	11
30	Bubba Jenkins	2h 17m	12	12
31	Lance Palmer	2h 16m	11	11
32	Nathaniel Wood	2h 15m	9	9
33	Hakeem Dawodu	2h 15m	10	10
34	Sean Woodson	2h 12m	11	11
35	Sheymon Moraes	2h 11m	11	11
36	Bill Algeo	2h 11m	11	11
37	Jason Knight	2h 10m	10	10
38	Makwan Amirkhani	2h 9m	14	14
39	Damon Jackson	2h 4m	12	12
40	Bryce Mitchell	2h 4m	11	11
41	Gabriel Braga	2h 2m	12	12
42	Kyle Bochniak	2h 1m	9	9
43	Daniel Pineda	2h 1m	13	13
44	Edson Barboza	2h 1m	8	8
45	Billy Quarantillo	1h 58m	11	11
46	Chad Mendes	1h 56m	14	14
47	Cole Miller	1h 56m	9	9
48	Chris Wade	1h 53m	10	10
49	Diego Lopes	1h 52m	10	10
50	Steven Peterson	1h 52m	8	8
51	Sodiq Yusuff	1h 49m	11	11
52	Hatsu Hioki	1h 49m	8	8
53	Felipe Arantes	1h 49m	8	8
54	SeungWoo Choi	1h 48m	11	11
55	Jack Jenkins	1h 46m	8	8
56	Julian Erosa	1h 46m	15	15
57	Pat Sabatini	1h 45m	11	11
58	Jakub Tichota	1h 45m	8	8
59	Hacran Dias	1h 45m	7	7
60	Chas Skelly	1h 45m	11	11
61	Nate Landwehr	1h 43m	11	11
62	Dustin Poirier	1h 43m	11	11
63	William Gomis	1h 42m	7	7
64	Mirsad Bektic	1h 42m	10	10
65	Artem Lobov	1h 40m	6	6
66	Joanderson Brito	1h 40m	12	12
67	TJ Brown	1h 39m	8	8
68	Charles Oliveira	1h 39m	12	12
69	Brandon Davis	1h 39m	7	7
70	Rony Jason	1h 38m	10	10
71	Zubaira Tukhugov	1h 38m	8	8
72	Josh Culibao	1h 37m	7	7
73	Jamall Emmers	1h 36m	11	11
74	Sam Sicilia	1h 36m	11	11
75	Jeremy Kennedy	1h 35m	8	8
76	Tyler Diamond	1h 34m	7	7
77	Dennis Siver	1h 34m	7	7
78	Melquizael Costa	1h 33m	8	8
T-79	Nam Phan	1h 30m	6	6
T-79	Diego Nunes	1h 30m	6	6
81	Nik Lentz	1h 30m	7	7
82	Roman Paulus	1h 30m	6	6
83	Gabriel Benitez	1h 28m	10	10
84	Jakub Batfalský	1h 27m	7	7
85	Dooho Choi	1h 27m	11	11
86	Muhammad Naimov	1h 25m	8	8
87	Jonathan Pearce	1h 25m	8	8
88	Leonard Garcia	1h 25m	6	6
89	Julio Arce	1h 24m	7	7
90	Christian Rodriguez	1h 24m	7	7
91	Tatsuya Kawajiri	1h 21m	6	6
92	Andre Harrison	1h 20m	6	6
93	Maximo Blanco	1h 20m	9	9
94	Dawid Kareta	1h 19m	6	6
95	Marco Novák	1h 19m	6	6
96	Clay Guida	1h 19m	7	7
97	Rani Yahya	1h 18m	6	6
98	Kyle Nelson	1h 18m	8	8
99	Ricardo Ramos	1h 18m	10	10
100	Shamil Gasanov	1h 18m	5	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.

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.