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	Andrei Arlovski	6h 35m	41	41
2	Derrick Lewis	4h 43m	32	32
3	Marcin Tybura	4h 39m	25	25
4	Junior Dos Santos	4h 7m	23	23
5	Alexander Volkov	4h 6m	19	19
6	Stipe Miocic	3h 36m	19	19
7	Curtis Blaydes	3h 23m	21	21
8	Roy Nelson	3h 19m	18	18
9	Fabricio Werdum	3h 13m	18	18
10	Stefan Struve	3h 8m	24	24
11	Mark Hunt	3h 6m	17	17
12	Alistair Overeem	3h 5m	20	20
13	Ciryl Gane	2h 57m	13	13
14	Carlos Felipe	2h 54m	12	12
15	Ben Rothwell	2h 51m	17	17
16	Randy Couture	2h 50m	13	13
17	Waldo Cortes Acosta	2h 45m	15	15
18	Jared Rosholt	2h 44m	16	16
19	Don'Tale Mayes	2h 44m	14	14
20	Cheick Kongo	2h 43m	18	18
21	Pedro Rizzo	2h 42m	14	14
22	Tai Tuivasa	2h 41m	19	19
23	Chase Sherman	2h 40m	15	15
24	Frank Mir	2h 36m	27	27
25	Augusto Sakai	2h 35m	12	12
26	Martin Buday	2h 27m	16	16
27	Blagoy Ivanov	2h 25m	9	9
28	Kirill Kornilov	2h 24m	8	8
29	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	2h 22m	15	15
30	Serghei Spivac	2h 21m	16	16
31	Gabriel Gonzaga	2h 18m	22	22
32	Tim Sylvia	2h 18m	13	13
33	Travis Browne	2h 17m	17	17
34	Mirko Filipovic	2h 15m	17	17
35	Lazar Todev	2h 11m	9	9
36	Karl Williams	2h 3m	9	9
37	Alexander Romanov	2h 2m	13	13
38	Rodrigo Nascimento	2h	11	11
39	Aleksei Oleinik	1h 56m	17	17
40	Denis Goltsov	1h 55m	18	18
41	Hatef Moeil	1h 54m	7	7
42	Ante Delija	1h 53m	15	15
43	Cain Velasquez	1h 51m	15	15
44	Maurice Greene	1h 49m	12	12
45	Daniel Omielanczuk	1h 47m	9	9
46	Tony Johnson Jr.	1h 45m	6	6
47	Shamil Abdurakhimov	1h 44m	11	11
48	Tanner Boser	1h 43m	9	9
49	Francis Ngannou	1h 42m	15	15
50	Jailton Almeida	1h 39m	10	10
51	Oleg Popov	1h 37m	7	7
52	Darko Stosic	1h 34m	9	9
53	Timothy Johnson	1h 33m	11	11
54	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	1h 33m	11	11
55	Shawn Jordan	1h 31m	11	11
56	Anton Vyazigin	1h 30m	5	5
57	Michal Martínek	1h 29m	12	12
58	Mohammed Usman	1h 29m	7	7
59	Walt Harris	1h 29m	15	15
60	Phil De Fries	1h 29m	11	11
61	Matt Mitrione	1h 28m	14	14
62	Josh Parisian	1h 26m	10	10
63	Daniel Cormier	1h 26m	6	6
64	Jake Collier	1h 26m	8	8
65	Kevin Randleman	1h 25m	5	5
66	Jared Vanderaa	1h 25m	8	8
67	Elmar Gasanov	1h 24m	5	5
68	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	1h 23m	12	12
69	Ricco Rodriguez	1h 23m	7	7
70	Joey Beltran	1h 22m	7	7
71	Josh Barnett	1h 22m	9	9
72	Thomas Petersen	1h 21m	8	8
73	Marek Samociuk	1h 20m	7	7
74	Maurice Smith	1h 17m	7	7
75	Arbi Agujev	1h 16m	6	6
76	Szymon Bajor	1h 16m	6	6
77	Ivan Vitasovic	1h 15m	5	5
T-78	Heath Herring	1h 15m	5	5
T-78	Jamal Pogues	1h 15m	5	5
80	Brendan Schaub	1h 14m	10	10
81	Greg Hardy	1h 13m	12	12
82	Lukasz Brzeski	1h 13m	8	8
83	Luis Henrique	1h 13m	6	6
84	Asylzhan Bakhytzhanuly	1h 12m	5	5
85	Jeff Monson	1h 10m	6	6
86	Viktor Pesta	1h 9m	8	8
87	Klidson Abreu	1h 9m	7	7
88	Pat Barry	1h 9m	12	12
89	Maxim Grishin	1h 9m	6	6
90	Antonio Silva	1h 7m	11	11
91	Bruno Cappelozza	1h 6m	8	8
92	Mick Parkin	1h 5m	6	6
93	Maxwell Djantou Nana	1h 5m	5	5
94	Shamil Gaziev	1h 4m	9	9
95	Mike Russow	1h 4m	6	6
96	Sergei Pavlovich	1h 3m	12	12
97	Pete Williams	1h 3m	8	8
98	Anthony Hamilton	1h 3m	10	10
99	Justin Willis	1h 3m	5	5
100	Ruslan Gabaraev	1h	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.