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	Max Holloway	8h 54m	33	33
2	Rafael Dos Anjos	8h 43m	36	36
3	Frankie Edgar	7h 57m	30	30
4	Neil Magny	7h 31m	38	38
5	Jeremy Stephens	7h 25m	38	38
6	Jim Miller	7h 19m	46	46
7	Angela Hill	7h 13m	30	30
8	Clay Guida	7h 3m	37	37
9	Demian Maia	6h 50m	33	33
10	Sean Strickland	6h 47m	25	25
11	Diego Sanchez	6h 37m	32	32
12	Andrei Arlovski	6h 35m	41	41
13	Edson Barboza	6h 30m	33	33
14	Jose Aldo	6h 20m	23	23
15	Gleison Tibau	6h 11m	33	33
16	Michael Johnson	6h 7m	32	32
17	Marlon Vera	6h 6m	27	27
18	Michael Bisping	6h 6m	29	29
19	Brad Tavares	6h 4m	28	28
20	Kamaru Usman	6h 4m	20	20
21	Valentina Shevchenko	6h 2m	19	19
22	BJ Penn	5h 56m	27	27
23	Brandon Moreno	5h 56m	21	21
24	Darren Elkins	5h 51m	31	31
25	Lucie Pudilova	5h 48m	23	23
26	Alex Caceres	5h 46m	29	29
27	Jon Jones	5h 44m	23	23
28	Kelvin Gastelum	5h 43m	25	25
29	Georges St-Pierre	5h 43m	22	22
30	Belal Muhammad	5h 42m	21	21
31	Donald Cerrone	5h 42m	37	37
32	Dustin Poirier	5h 39m	31	31
33	Robert Whittaker	5h 38m	25	25
34	Nate Diaz	5h 37m	27	27
35	Demetrious Johnson	5h 34m	18	18
36	Aljamain Sterling	5h 31m	23	23
37	Leon Edwards	5h 30m	19	19
38	Israel Adesanya	5h 26m	19	19
39	Francisco Trinaldo	5h 22m	26	26
40	Kevin Holland	5h 20m	29	29
41	Stephen Thompson	5h 20m	22	22
42	Robbie Lawler	5h 18m	25	25
43	King Green	5h 18m	30	30
44	Cub Swanson	5h 11m	26	26
45	Marvin Vettori	5h 9m	18	18
46	Gilbert Burns	5h 9m	25	25
47	Nik Lentz	5h 7m	24	24
48	Court McGee	5h 3m	24	24
49	Alexander Volkanovski	5h 3m	18	18
50	Ross Pearson	5h 1m	25	25
51	Merab Dvalishvili	4h 59m	17	17
52	John Dodson	4h 59m	21	21
53	Rose Namajunas	4h 57m	19	19
54	Thiago Alves	4h 57m	27	27
55	Jan Blachowicz	4h 55m	23	23
56	Tito Ortiz	4h 54m	27	27
57	Jorge Masvidal	4h 54m	22	22
58	Jared Cannonier	4h 53m	21	21
59	Leandro Silva	4h 53m	21	21
60	Olivier Aubin-Mercier	4h 51m	22	22
61	Raquel Pennington	4h 51m	19	19
62	Krzysztof Jotko	4h 50m	23	23
63	Dan Ige	4h 49m	23	23
64	Rashad Evans	4h 49m	23	23
65	Charles Oliveira	4h 48m	36	36
66	Colby Covington	4h 48m	17	17
67	Jessica Andrade	4h 46m	30	30
68	Lyoto Machida	4h 46m	24	24
69	Tim Means	4h 45m	29	29
70	Anthony Pettis	4h 45m	25	25
71	Tim Elliott	4h 45m	23	23
72	Derrick Lewis	4h 43m	32	32
73	Andre Fili	4h 43m	26	26
74	Petr Yan	4h 42m	16	16
75	Deiveson Figueiredo	4h 40m	22	22
76	Marcin Tybura	4h 39m	25	25
77	Joanna Jedrzejczyk	4h 39m	15	15
78	Rob Font	4h 38m	21	21
79	Matt Brown	4h 37m	30	30
80	Jake Matthews	4h 36m	24	24
81	Alex Morono	4h 35m	23	23
82	Randy Couture	4h 34m	24	24
83	Tony Ferguson	4h 32m	24	24
84	Chris Camozzi	4h 29m	22	22
85	Yushin Okami	4h 27m	22	22
86	Rick Story	4h 26m	22	22
87	Tecia Pennington	4h 26m	19	19
88	Sergio Pettis	4h 26m	18	18
89	Glover Teixeira	4h 25m	23	23
90	Mauricio Rua	4h 25m	24	24
91	Thales Leites	4h 24m	21	21
92	Chris Wade	4h 23m	23	23
93	Anthony Smith	4h 20m	25	25
94	Ovince Saint Preux	4h 18m	28	28
95	Thiago Santos	4h 16m	26	26
96	Ketlen Vieira	4h 14m	16	16
97	Benson Henderson	4h 13m	15	15
98	Mackenzie Dern	4h 12m	17	17
99	Gray Maynard	4h 12m	19	19
100	Vicente Luque	4h 12m	26	26

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.