UFC: Fastest submissions

Name: UFC: Fastest submissions
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The all-time UFC top 100, rebuilt from every completed UFC 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	Fastest submissions	Round	Fight	Date
1	Oleg Taktarov	0:09	1	Anthony Macias	Jul 14, 1995
2	Ronda Rousey	0:14	1	Cat Zingano	Feb 28, 2015
T-3	Marcus Aurelio	0:16	1	Ryan Roberts	Apr 2, 2008
T-3	Frank Shamrock	0:16	1	Kevin Jackson	Dec 21, 1997
5	Terry Etim	0:17	1	Edward Faaloloto	Nov 5, 2011
6	Chas Skelly	0:19	1	Maximo Blanco	Sep 18, 2016
T-7	Don Frye	0:20	1	Mark Hall	Dec 7, 1996
T-7	Scott Morris	0:20	1	Sean Daugherty	Mar 11, 1994
T-7	Dennis Hallman	0:20	1	Matt Hughes	Dec 16, 2000
T-10	Roman Mitichyan	0:23	1	Dorian Price	Dec 9, 2007
T-10	Patrick Williams	0:23	1	Alejandro Perez	Jun 13, 2015
12	Teemu Packalen	0:24	1	Thibault Gouti	Feb 27, 2016
13	Joe Duffy	0:25	1	Mitch Clarke	Jul 9, 2016
14	Ryan Spann	0:26	1	Emiliano Sordi	Jun 19, 2018
15	Joe Stevenson	0:27	1	Melvin Guillard	Apr 5, 2007
T-16	Brett Johns	0:30	1	Joe Soto	Dec 1, 2017
T-16	Sodiq Yusuff	0:30	1	Don Shainis	Oct 1, 2022
T-18	Scott Bessac	0:31	1	David Hood	Sep 8, 1995
T-18	Rousimar Palhares	0:31	1	Mike Pierce	Oct 9, 2013
20	Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev	0:33	1	Rafael Cerqueira	Nov 22, 2025
T-21	Diego Ferreira	0:38	1	Colton Smith	Jun 28, 2014
T-21	Nick Klein	0:38	1	Heraldo Souza	Oct 15, 2024
T-23	Jerry Bohlander	0:39	1	Nick Sanzo	Feb 7, 1997
T-23	Brian Kelleher	0:39	1	Ray Rodriguez	Sep 5, 2020
T-23	Danny Henry	0:39	1	Hakeem Dawodu	Mar 17, 2018
T-23	Thiago Tavares	0:39	1	Clay Guida	Nov 7, 2015
T-23	Mike Malott	0:39	1	Shimon Smotritsky	Oct 5, 2021
28	Charles Oliveira	0:41	1	Darren Elkins	Aug 1, 2010
29	Julija Stoliarenko	0:42	1	Jessica-Rose Clark	Jul 3, 2022
T-30	Kevin Jackson	0:44	1	Tony Fryklund	Jul 27, 1997
T-30	Renato Moicano	0:44	1	Damir Hadzovic	Mar 14, 2020
T-30	Rory Singer	0:44	1	Ross Pointon	Jun 24, 2006
T-33	Mark Coleman	0:45	1	Julian Sanchez	Sep 20, 1996
T-33	Mickey Gall	0:45	1	Mike Jackson	Feb 7, 2016
T-33	Jalin Turner	0:45	1	Brad Riddell	Jul 3, 2022
T-33	Justin Edwards	0:45	1	Josh Neer	Oct 5, 2012
T-33	Rousimar Palhares	0:45	1	Tomasz Drwal	Mar 27, 2010
T-38	Frank Mir	0:46	1	Pete Williams	Mar 22, 2002
T-38	Frank Mir	0:46	1	David Abbott	Feb 28, 2003
T-40	Andrei Arlovski	0:47	1	Tim Sylvia	Feb 5, 2005
T-40	Said Nurmagomedov	0:47	1	Cody Stamann	Jan 23, 2022
T-40	Cezar Ferreira	0:47	1	Thiago Santos	Aug 3, 2013
T-40	Joe Lauzon	0:47	1	Melvin Guillard	Oct 9, 2011
T-44	Derek Brunson	0:48	1	Brian Houston	Nov 6, 2013
T-44	Zhang Tiequan	0:48	1	Jason Reinhardt	Feb 26, 2011
T-46	Ben Nguyen	0:49	1	Tim Elliott	Jun 11, 2017
T-46	Jack Hermansson	0:49	1	David Branch	Mar 30, 2019
T-46	Gabriel Bonfim	0:49	1	Mounir Lazzez	Jan 22, 2023
T-49	Kyle Daukaus	0:50	1	Gerald Meerschaert	Nov 16, 2025
T-49	Frank Mir	0:50	1	Tim Sylvia	Jun 19, 2004
T-49	Ryan Bader	0:50	1	Vladimir Matyushenko	Jan 26, 2013
T-49	Aliaskhab Khizriev	0:50	1	Henrique Shiguemoto	Sep 8, 2020
53	Guilherme Uriel	0:51	1	Mario Piazzon	Aug 25, 2026
T-54	Jason DeLucia	0:52	1	Trent Jenkins	Nov 12, 1993
T-54	Dan Severn	0:52	1	Marcus Bossett	Dec 16, 1994
T-54	Carlos Newton	0:52	1	Bob Gilstrap	May 15, 1998
T-54	Vicente Luque	0:52	1	Themba Gorimbo	Dec 8, 2024
T-54	Darrick Minner	0:52	1	TJ Laramie	Sep 20, 2020
T-54	Paddy Pimblett	0:52	1	Benoit Saint Denis	Jul 11, 2026
T-60	Alan Belcher	0:53	1	Sean Salmon	May 27, 2007
T-60	Mark Kerr	0:53	1	Dwayne Cason	Oct 17, 1997
T-60	Sedriques Dumas	0:53	1	Matěj Peňáz	Aug 30, 2022
T-63	Valter Walker	0:54	1	Kennedy Nzechukwu	Jul 13, 2025
T-63	Michel Pereira	0:54	1	Ihor Potieria	May 5, 2024
T-63	Efrain Escudero	0:54	1	Drew Dober	Jun 13, 2015
T-63	Bo Nickal	0:54	1	Donovan Beard	Sep 27, 2022
T-67	Rinat Fakhretdinov	0:55	1	Kevin Lee	Jul 1, 2023
T-67	Terrance McKinney	0:55	1	Viacheslav Borshchev	Jun 29, 2025
T-67	TJ Waldburger	0:55	1	Jake Hecht	Mar 2, 2012
T-67	Tom Lawlor	0:55	1	CB Dollaway	Jul 11, 2009
T-67	Andrei Arlovski	0:55	1	Aaron Brink	Nov 17, 2000
T-72	Randy Couture	0:56	1	Tony Halme	May 30, 1997
T-72	Yoshiyuki Yoshida	0:56	1	War Machine	May 24, 2008
T-74	Royce Gracie	0:57	1	Ken Shamrock	Nov 12, 1993
T-74	Oleg Taktarov	0:57	1	Dave Beneteau	Jul 14, 1995
T-74	Makwan Amirkhani	0:57	1	Mike Grundy	Mar 19, 2022
T-74	Magnus Cedenblad	0:57	1	Jared Hamman	Aug 31, 2013
T-74	Ben Saunders	0:57	1	Joe Riggs	Dec 13, 2014
T-79	Muhammad Mokaev	0:58	1	Cody Durden	Mar 19, 2022
T-79	Jim Miller	0:58	1	Clay Guida	Aug 3, 2019
T-79	Patrick Smith	0:58	1	Ray Wizard	Mar 11, 1994
T-79	James Vick	0:58	1	Ramsey Nijem	Aug 18, 2013
T-83	Gabriel Miranda	0:59	1	Shane Young	Sep 10, 2023
T-83	Manny Bermudez	0:59	1	Davey Grant	Jul 22, 2018
T-85	Dan Severn	1:01	1	Paul Varelans	Dec 16, 1995
T-85	Paul Varelans	1:01	1	Mark Hall	Sep 8, 1995
T-85	Emily Whitmire	1:01	1	Aleksandra Albu	Feb 18, 2019
T-85	Michel Pereira	1:01	1	Michal Oleksiejczuk	Mar 10, 2024
T-89	Michel Prazeres	1:02	1	Bartosz Fabinski	Nov 18, 2018
T-89	Bo Nickal	1:02	1	Zachary Borrego	Aug 9, 2022
T-91	Dan Miller	1:03	1	Jake Rosholt	Feb 7, 2009
T-91	Sean McCorkle	1:03	1	Mark Hunt	Sep 25, 2010
T-91	Michael Chiesa	1:03	1	Niko Price	Mar 28, 2026
T-91	Rousimar Palhares	1:03	1	Mike Massenzio	Jan 14, 2012
T-91	Mike Ciesnolevicz	1:03	1	Neil Grove	Feb 21, 2009
T-96	Guido Cannetti	1:04	1	Randy Costa	Oct 1, 2022
T-96	Joseph Holmes	1:04	1	Alen Amedovski	May 21, 2022
T-96	Ian Entwistle	1:04	1	Anthony Birchak	Dec 13, 2014
T-99	Tony DeSouza	1:05	1	Paul Rodriguez	Jun 29, 2001
T-99	Stefan Struve	1:05	1	Lavar Johnson	May 26, 2012

This board ranks single performances, not fighters — one fighter can hold more than one row.