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 22, 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	Brad Tavares	6h 4m	28	28
2	Michael Bisping	5h 15m	24	24
3	Israel Adesanya	5h 1m	18	18
4	Marvin Vettori	4h 44m	17	17
5	Krzysztof Jotko	4h 43m	22	22
6	Sean Strickland	4h 34m	15	15
7	Robert Whittaker	4h 27m	19	19
8	Thales Leites	4h 24m	21	21
9	Nate Marquardt	3h 54m	23	23
10	Jared Cannonier	3h 47m	14	14
11	Kelvin Gastelum	3h 44m	16	16
12	Chris Camozzi	3h 44m	19	19
13	Anderson Silva	3h 42m	20	20
14	Gerald Meerschaert	3h 41m	26	26
15	Yushin Okami	3h 40m	18	18
16	Brendan Allen	3h 33m	18	18
17	Rafael Natal	3h 32m	17	17
18	Jack Hermansson	3h 21m	18	18
19	Chris Leben	3h 19m	22	22
20	Yoel Romero	3h 11m	13	13
21	Chris Weidman	3h 10m	18	18
22	Uriah Hall	3h 1m	18	18
23	Derek Brunson	3h	21	21
24	Eryk Anders	2h 57m	14	14
25	Dricus Du Plessis	2h 54m	11	11
26	Kevin Holland	2h 53m	16	16
27	Marc-Andre Barriault	2h 44m	15	15
28	Anthony Hernandez	2h 42m	13	13
29	JunYong Park	2h 40m	13	13
30	Tim Boetsch	2h 39m	17	17
31	Caio Borralho	2h 34m	10	10
32	Sam Alvey	2h 31m	16	16
33	Trevor Smith	2h 30m	12	12
34	Nassourdine Imavov	2h 30m	10	10
35	Roman Dolidze	2h 27m	11	11
36	Roman Kopylov	2h 27m	12	12
37	CB Dollaway	2h 27m	18	18
38	Elias Theodorou	2h 24m	10	10
39	Gregory Rodrigues	2h 24m	15	15
40	Demian Maia	2h 23m	13	13
41	Edmen Shahbazyan	2h 21m	17	17
42	Cezar Ferreira	2h 17m	13	13
43	Samuel Krištofič	2h 16m	11	11
44	Patrik Kincl	2h 16m	8	8
45	Makhmud Muradov	2h 15m	11	11
46	Andre Petroski	2h 14m	13	13
47	Alan Belcher	2h 14m	13	13
48	Jacare Souza	2h 13m	15	15
49	Dan Miller	2h 9m	11	11
50	Andrew Sanchez	2h 9m	10	10
51	Mark Munoz	2h 7m	14	14
52	Ed Herman	2h 4m	15	15
53	Chael Sonnen	2h 3m	10	10
54	Chris Curtis	1h 59m	9	9
55	Antonio Carlos Junior	1h 59m	10	10
56	Dustin Stoltzfus	1h 57m	12	12
57	Pawel Pawlak	1h 57m	5	5
58	Jorge Rivera	1h 56m	15	15
59	Paulo Costa	1h 55m	10	10
60	Rodolfo Vieira	1h 55m	11	11
61	Patrick Cote	1h 55m	11	11
62	Jamie Pickett	1h 54m	11	11
63	Alessio Di Chirico	1h 53m	11	11
64	Francis Carmont	1h 49m	9	9
65	Abus Magomedov	1h 48m	12	12
66	Kendall Grove	1h 48m	12	12
67	Cody Brundage	1h 47m	14	14
68	Lyoto Machida	1h 47m	9	9
69	Aaron Simpson	1h 46m	9	9
70	Andre Muniz	1h 46m	12	12
71	Christian Leroy Duncan	1h 45m	10	10
72	Gegard Mousasi	1h 45m	11	11
73	Rich Franklin	1h 45m	10	10
74	David Loiseau	1h 44m	9	9
75	Matt Lindland	1h 43m	11	11
76	Impa Kasanganay	1h 41m	8	8
T-77	Jacob Malkoun	1h 40m	9	9
T-77	Omari Akhmedov	1h 40m	8	8
79	Tom Watson	1h 40m	7	7
80	Bruno Silva	1h 37m	11	11
81	Shara Magomedov	1h 37m	7	7
82	Daniel Kelly	1h 37m	10	10
83	Constantinos Philippou	1h 37m	9	9
84	Evan Tanner	1h 36m	12	12
85	Scott Askham	1h 34m	8	8
86	Dario Bellandi	1h 34m	5	5
87	Reinier de Ridder	1h 33m	7	7
88	Joe Doerksen	1h 32m	9	9
89	Kerim Engizek	1h 32m	8	8
90	Brunno Ferreira	1h 30m	12	12
91	David Hošek	1h 29m	11	11
92	Darren Stewart	1h 29m	9	9
93	Dusko Todorovic	1h 29m	12	12
94	Nick Ring	1h 29m	6	6
95	Thiago Santos	1h 28m	15	15
96	Ian Heinisch	1h 28m	8	8
97	Hector Lombard	1h 28m	8	8
98	Trevin Giles	1h 26m	7	7
99	Joaquin Buckley	1h 25m	9	9
100	Bruno Santos	1h 25m	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.