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 October 2, 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	Jon Jones	5h 27m	21	21
2	Jan Blachowicz	4h 55m	23	23
3	Tito Ortiz	4h 34m	23	23
4	Glover Teixeira	4h 25m	23	23
5	Mauricio Rua	4h 25m	24	24
6	Rashad Evans	4h 4m	20	20
7	Ovince Saint Preux	3h 55m	26	26
8	Magomed Ankalaev	3h 28m	16	16
9	Ryan Bader	3h 22m	19	19
10	Anthony Smith	3h 7m	18	18
11	Corey Anderson	3h 7m	15	15
12	Alexander Gustafsson	3h 4m	17	17
13	Lyoto Machida	2h 59m	15	15
14	Devin Clark	2h 55m	15	15
15	Quinton Jackson	2h 50m	12	12
16	Alonzo Menifield	2h 50m	21	21
17	Ion Cuțelaba	2h 48m	21	21
18	Phil Davis	2h 47m	12	12
19	Thiago Santos	2h 46m	10	10
20	Gian Villante	2h 45m	15	15
21	Dustin Jacoby	2h 44m	17	17
22	Chuck Liddell	2h 42m	19	19
23	Stephan Bonnar	2h 38m	14	14
24	Forrest Griffin	2h 38m	14	14
25	Matt Hamill	2h 35m	15	15
26	Volkan Oezdemir	2h 31m	16	16
27	Khalil Rountree Jr.	2h 25m	16	16
28	Nikita Krylov	2h 22m	19	19
29	Kennedy Nzechukwu	2h 5m	13	13
30	Modestas Bukauskas	2h 5m	13	13
31	Keith Jardine	2h 5m	12	12
32	Rogerio Nogueira	2h 3m	13	13
33	Jamahal Hill	2h 3m	11	11
34	Joshua Silveira	2h 3m	9	9
35	Dan Henderson	2h 2m	8	8
36	Paul Craig	2h 1m	16	16
37	Johnny Walker	2h	16	16
38	Fabio Maldonado	2h	9	9
39	Dominick Reyes	1h 58m	15	15
40	Aleksandar Rakic	1h 58m	11	11
41	Patrick Cummins	1h 57m	13	13
42	Francimar Barroso	1h 53m	8	8
43	Brandon Vera	1h 52m	9	9
44	Daniel Cormier	1h 48m	8	8
45	Marcin Prachnio	1h 48m	12	12
46	Igor Pokrajac	1h 46m	12	12
47	Ed Herman	1h 43m	9	9
48	Kyle Kingsbury	1h 42m	9	9
49	Randy Couture	1h 40m	10	10
50	Pavol Langer	1h 40m	11	11
51	Karlos Vemola	1h 38m	9	9
52	Impa Kasanganay	1h 36m	11	11
53	Da Woon Jung	1h 34m	9	9
54	Jiri Prochazka	1h 32m	9	9
55	Ilir Latifi	1h 29m	12	12
56	Jorick Montagnac	1h 29m	9	9
57	Vladimir Vasilyev	1h 27m	6	6
58	Carlos Ulberg	1h 26m	12	12
59	Jimi Manuwa	1h 24m	12	12
60	Alexander Poppeck	1h 24m	7	7
61	Jimmy Crute	1h 22m	13	13
62	William Knight	1h 21m	7	7
63	Henrique da Silva	1h 21m	9	9
64	Krzysztof Soszynski	1h 20m	9	9
65	Sam Alvey	1h 20m	8	8
66	Tyson Pedro	1h 19m	11	11
67	Alex Pereira	1h 18m	7	7
68	Vladimir Matyushenko	1h 18m	9	9
69	Miloš Petrášek	1h 17m	8	8
70	Sean O'Connell	1h 17m	11	11
71	Ryan Spann	1h 16m	14	14
72	Jordan Johnson	1h 15m	6	6
73	Vitor Petrino	1h 14m	7	7
74	Navajo Stirling	1h 13m	7	7
75	Thiago Silva	1h 12m	10	10
76	Rodolfo Bellato	1h 12m	7	7
77	Maxim Grishin	1h 11m	8	8
78	Jason Brilz	1h 10m	7	7
79	Daniel Škvor	1h 9m	13	13
80	Brendson Ribeiro	1h 8m	9	9
81	Attila Végh	1h 7m	6	6
82	Sam Hoger	1h 7m	5	5
83	Rafal Haratyk	1h 7m	5	5
84	Ryan Jimmo	1h 6m	7	7
85	Azamat Murzakanov	1h 6m	8	8
86	Bogdan Guskov	1h 6m	7	7
87	Aleksa Camur	1h 6m	5	5
88	Renato Sobral	1h 6m	9	9
89	Chris Honeycutt	1h 5m	5	5
90	Ruslan Shamilov	1h 5m	6	6
91	Vitor Belfort	1h 4m	7	7
92	Eliot Marshall	1h 4m	6	6
93	Mohamed Said Maalem	1h 3m	5	5
94	Dan Spohn	1h 3m	7	7
95	Antonio Carlos Junior	1h 2m	6	6
96	Oumar Sy	1h 1m	7	7
97	Mike Rodriguez	1h 1m	8	8
98	Rafael Xavier	1h 1m	7	7
99	Jared Cannonier	1h	5	5
100	Nicolae Negumereanu	58:35	6	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.

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.