UFC: Best significant strike defence

Name: UFC: Best significant strike defence
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The all-time UFC top 100, rebuilt from every completed UFC fight in our database.

Updated November 5, 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
1	Vaughan Lee	71.5%	442	7
2	David Martinez	71.0%	590	5
3	SuYoung You	70.4%	372	5
4	Aiemann Zahabi	69.2%	1,516	10
5	Francisco Rivera	68.0%	952	10
6	Joe Soto	67.1%	1,146	7
7	Miles Johns	66.8%	1,281	11
8	Erik Perez	66.7%	568	9
9	Raphael Assuncao	65.8%	1,818	18
10	Dominick Cruz	65.8%	1,721	10
11	Daniel Marcos	65.6%	881	7
12	Javid Basharat	65.5%	714	7
13	Chris Gutierrez	65.5%	1,249	12
14	Ivan Menjivar	65.4%	483	7
15	Urijah Faber	64.7%	1,777	17
16	Yves Jabouin	64.3%	723	9
17	Taylor Lapilus	64.2%	710	7
18	John Dodson	63.4%	1,277	9
19	Alejandro Perez	63.3%	900	11
20	Johnny Bedford	63.3%	188	5
21	Johnny Eduardo	63.0%	603	8
22	Farid Basharat	63.0%	778	7
23	Jose Quinonez	62.7%	659	8
24	TJ Dillashaw	62.4%	1,971	16
25	Mitch Gagnon	61.9%	452	8
26	Mike Easton	61.8%	1,117	7
27	Rinya Nakamura	61.7%	243	5
28	Sergio Pettis	61.7%	741	5
29	Alex Caceres	61.6%	644	9
30	Eddie Wineland	61.5%	1,712	16
31	Sergey Morozov	61.3%	476	5
32	Thomas Almeida	61.2%	954	9
33	Montel Jackson	60.9%	588	15
34	Casey Kenney	60.7%	889	6
35	Raoni Barcelos	60.5%	2,148	15
36	Sean O'Malley	60.3%	1,594	16
37	Scott Jorgensen	60.3%	1,014	8
38	Ricky Simon	60.2%	2,292	18
39	Petr Yan	60.1%	3,326	17
40	Jimmie Rivera	59.9%	1,270	10
41	Umar Nurmagomedov	59.8%	612	9
42	Ricardo Ramos	59.8%	482	5
43	Cody Stamann	59.7%	1,183	11
44	George Roop	59.0%	415	6
45	Kyler Phillips	58.9%	1,291	11
46	Cody Garbrandt	58.8%	1,516	16
47	Cameron Smotherman	58.5%	412	5
48	Leandro Issa	58.2%	479	5
49	Takeya Mizugaki	58.1%	1,235	14
50	Renan Barao	58.1%	1,714	13
51	Randy Costa	58.0%	481	6
52	Jack Shore	57.9%	411	6
53	Kyung Ho Kang	57.7%	1,040	12
54	Rob Font	57.6%	2,053	19
55	Michael McDonald	57.2%	528	9
56	Vinicius Oliveira	57.1%	457	6
57	John Castaneda	57.0%	924	7
58	Brad Pickett	57.0%	1,133	10
59	Aljamain Sterling	57.0%	1,360	18
60	Albert Morales	56.8%	681	6
61	Anthony Birchak	56.8%	266	6
62	Adrian Yanez	56.6%	1,032	12
63	Heili Alateng	56.5%	1,550	10
64	Benito Lopez	56.2%	628	5
65	Cristian Quinonez	56.2%	404	5
66	Pedro Munhoz	56.1%	3,555	20
67	Muin Gafurov	55.9%	433	6
68	Nathaniel Wood	55.9%	408	5
69	Louis Smolka	55.9%	555	7
70	Jonathan Martinez	55.7%	1,582	13
71	Hugo Viana	55.6%	367	5
72	Vince Morales	55.6%	1,348	12
73	Douglas Silva de Andrade	55.5%	998	9
74	Matthew Lopez	55.4%	567	6
75	Song Yadong	55.3%	1,700	16
76	Johnny Munoz	55.1%	361	5
77	Andre Ewell	55.1%	911	7
78	Marcus McGhee	55.0%	480	5
79	Cody Gibson	54.8%	850	11
80	John Lineker	54.8%	1,019	8
81	Davey Grant	54.4%	1,652	15
82	Marlon Moraes	54.2%	851	11
83	Mario Bautista	54.1%	1,422	15
84	Brian Kelleher	54.1%	739	11
85	Damian Stasiak	54.0%	461	5
86	Cory Sandhagen	54.0%	1,934	15
87	Said Nurmagomedov	53.9%	395	10
88	Bryan Caraway	53.7%	956	9
89	Luke Sanders	53.6%	319	5
90	Brett Johns	53.4%	728	7
91	Russell Doane	53.3%	272	7
92	Henry Briones	53.2%	513	5
93	Malcolm Wellmaker	52.5%	179	5
94	Henry Cejudo	52.4%	1,138	7
95	Ricky Turcios	52.3%	642	6
96	Merab Dvalishvili	52.3%	1,994	17
97	Da'Mon Blackshear	52.2%	889	10
98	Chad Anheliger	52.2%	617	7
99	Frankie Saenz	52.2%	945	10
100	Jose Aldo	52.0%	1,419	8

Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics.

Unofficial statistics compiled by UFCalendar from every completed fight in our database. Career boards need at least 5 bouts with tracked statistics and rate boards at least 50 attempts; BKFC is ranked only on its own boards.

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