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 25, 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	Neil Magny	7h 31m	38	38
2	Belal Muhammad	5h 42m	21	21
3	Leon Edwards	5h 30m	19	19
4	Georges St-Pierre	5h 28m	21	21
5	Stephen Thompson	5h 20m	22	22
6	Kamaru Usman	5h 18m	17	17
7	Robbie Lawler	5h 5m	23	23
8	Colby Covington	4h 48m	17	17
9	Thiago Alves	4h 42m	26	26
10	Matt Brown	4h 37m	30	30
11	Demian Maia	4h 27m	20	20
12	Rick Story	4h 26m	22	22
13	Alex Morono	4h 22m	22	22
14	Carlos Condit	4h 11m	19	19
15	Max Griffin	4h 10m	19	19
16	Tim Means	3h 59m	25	25
17	Court McGee	3h 58m	19	19
18	Josh Koscheck	3h 55m	24	24
19	Diego Sanchez	3h 54m	19	19
T-20	Rory MacDonald	3h 53m	19	19
T-20	David Kozma	3h 53m	18	18
22	Vicente Luque	3h 53m	24	24
23	Bojan Velickovic	3h 52m	21	21
24	Randy Brown	3h 51m	22	22
25	Jon Fitch	3h 44m	17	17
26	Santiago Ponzinibbio	3h 42m	20	20
27	Johny Hendricks	3h 42m	18	18
28	Máté Kertész	3h 41m	19	19
29	Tyron Woodley	3h 40m	16	16
30	Christian Jungwirth	3h 37m	16	16
31	Gilbert Burns	3h 32m	15	15
32	Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	3h 29m	18	18
33	Jake Matthews	3h 27m	17	17
34	Matt Hughes	3h 24m	23	23
35	Chris Lytle	3h 21m	19	19
36	Nicolas Dalby	3h 16m	14	14
37	Jorge Masvidal	3h 14m	15	15
38	Rafael Dos Anjos	3h 7m	11	11
39	Ian Machado Garry	3h 7m	12	12
40	Dong Hyun Kim	3h 5m	17	17
41	Li Jingliang	2h 54m	17	17
42	Robert Pukač	2h 53m	13	13
43	Bryan Barberena	2h 50m	15	15
44	Jake Ellenberger	2h 49m	21	21
45	Nick Diaz	2h 49m	13	13
46	Alex Oliveira	2h 48m	18	18
47	Mike Pierce	2h 48m	14	14
48	Mike Perry	2h 47m	15	15
49	John Howard	2h 43m	15	15
50	Gunnar Nelson	2h 42m	15	15
51	Sergio Moraes	2h 40m	13	13
52	Sadibou Sy	2h 39m	12	12
53	Nate Diaz	2h 34m	10	10
54	Joshua Burkman	2h 32m	14	14
55	Leandro Silva	2h 31m	10	10
56	John Hathaway	2h 31m	11	11
57	Ben Saunders	2h 30m	19	19
58	Mike Pyle	2h 30m	19	19
59	Paulo Thiago	2h 28m	13	13
60	Keita Nakamura	2h 28m	11	11
61	Daniel Rodriguez	2h 28m	14	14
62	Ryan LaFlare	2h 28m	10	10
63	Sean Brady	2h 27m	11	11
64	Niko Price	2h 25m	19	19
65	Kevin Holland	2h 24m	12	12
66	Muslim Salikhov	2h 22m	15	15
67	Geoff Neal	2h 17m	14	14
68	Jake Shields	2h 16m	10	10
69	Karo Parisyan	2h 16m	12	12
70	Jack Della Maddalena	2h 13m	11	11
71	Albert Tumenov	2h 13m	11	11
72	Danny Roberts	2h 12m	15	15
73	Warlley Alves	2h 12m	13	13
74	Andrey Koshkin	2h 10m	8	8
75	Phil Rowe	2h 9m	10	10
76	Amir Sadollah	2h 9m	10	10
77	Martin Kampmann	2h 7m	12	12
78	Matthew Riddle	2h 5m	9	9
79	Dan Hardy	2h 4m	10	10
80	Donald Cerrone	2h	14	14
81	Matthew Semelsberger	1h 59m	11	11
82	Marcus Davis	1h 58m	14	14
83	Peter Sobotta	1h 57m	10	10
84	Alex Garcia	1h 57m	10	10
85	Alan Jouban	1h 57m	13	13
86	Joaquin Buckley	1h 55m	8	8
87	Michael Chiesa	1h 54m	11	11
88	Magomed Magomedkerimov	1h 53m	13	13
89	Nordine Taleb	1h 49m	11	11
90	Michel Prazeres	1h 48m	8	8
91	Song Kenan	1h 48m	11	11
92	Adrian Bartosinski	1h 47m	6	6
93	Elias Silverio	1h 46m	8	8
94	Erick Silva	1h 46m	15	15
95	Patrick Cote	1h 45m	8	8
96	Michel Pereira	1h 45m	8	8
97	Mickey Gall	1h 45m	13	13
98	Kelvin Gastelum	1h 44m	8	8
99	Khaos Williams	1h 42m	11	11
100	Sean Strickland	1h 41m	8	8

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.