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 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	Best significant strike defence	Opponent attempts	Bouts
1	Enrique Barzola	69.3%	1,342	8
2	Steve Garcia	68.6%	287	7
3	Kevin Vallejos	68.4%	471	6
4	Julio Arce	68.0%	741	7
5	Chad Mendes	67.5%	1,021	14
6	Renato Moicano	66.5%	855	8
7	Zubaira Tukhugov	65.3%	799	8
8	Youssef Zalal	65.2%	762	12
9	Felipe Arantes	65.1%	853	8
10	Hatsu Hioki	65.0%	695	8
11	Zabit Magomedsharipov	64.9%	664	6
12	Frankie Edgar	64.7%	1,668	13
13	Maximo Blanco	64.7%	740	9
14	Gabriel Benitez	64.7%	966	10
15	Ilia Topuria	64.4%	820	7
16	Michihiro Omigawa	64.3%	779	5
17	Conor McGregor	64.2%	330	7
18	Nam Phan	63.8%	1,589	6
19	Sheymon Moraes	63.6%	627	5
20	Alex Caceres	63.2%	2,314	20
21	Robert Whiteford	63.0%	297	5
22	Clay Guida	62.8%	610	7
23	Josh Culibao	62.6%	705	7
24	Brandon Davis	62.5%	958	6
25	Austin Arnett	62.3%	1,164	5
26	Mark Hominick	62.2%	738	5
27	Jose Aldo	62.1%	2,423	15
28	Diego Brandao	61.8%	636	9
29	William Gomis	61.6%	693	7
30	Myles Jury	61.6%	349	5
31	Jean Silva	61.4%	689	8
32	Danny Silva	61.3%	1,203	5
33	Movsar Evloev	61.0%	1,030	9
34	Steven Nguyen	60.9%	1,155	5
35	Lerone Murphy	60.4%	1,091	11
36	Arnold Allen	60.2%	1,719	15
37	Cole Miller	60.2%	1,264	9
38	Sean Woodson	60.1%	1,212	11
39	Bryce Mitchell	60.0%	508	11
40	Luis Saldana	60.0%	645	5
41	Dennis Siver	60.0%	702	7
42	Max Holloway	59.7%	4,829	27
43	Sam Sicilia	59.5%	813	11
44	Alexander Volkanovski	59.4%	2,216	14
45	Dennis Bermudez	59.2%	1,381	15
46	Cub Swanson	59.2%	3,227	25
47	Giga Chikadze	59.1%	1,468	14
48	Dustin Poirier	59.0%	821	11
49	Charles Jourdain	58.9%	1,349	12
50	Josh Emmett	58.5%	1,881	14
51	Jack Jenkins	58.5%	785	8
52	Kyle Bochniak	58.1%	1,283	7
53	Jimy Hettes	57.9%	527	6
54	Mirsad Bektic	57.8%	434	10
55	Gavin Tucker	57.4%	707	7
56	Austin Lingo	57.4%	789	5
T-57	Jamall Emmers	57.4%	884	11
T-57	Diego Nunes	57.4%	680	6
59	Ricardo Lamas	56.7%	1,271	17
60	Jeremy Stephens	56.7%	1,755	17
61	Jonathan Pearce	56.6%	512	8
62	Hakeem Dawodu	56.6%	1,045	10
63	Dan Ige	56.4%	2,127	21
64	Dooho Choi	56.4%	931	11
65	Shane Burgos	56.4%	2,181	11
66	Melsik Baghdasaryan	56.3%	464	7
67	Hacran Dias	56.0%	673	7
68	Ricky Glenn	55.9%	549	5
69	Yadier del Valle	55.6%	178	5
70	Connor Matthews	55.5%	629	5
71	Teruto Ishihara	55.4%	514	6
72	Christian Rodriguez	55.4%	561	7
73	Brian Kelleher	55.2%	614	6
74	Manvel Gamburyan	55.1%	521	5
75	Calvin Kattar	54.8%	3,214	15
76	Nathaniel Wood	54.7%	1,221	9
77	Steven Siler	54.5%	618	9
78	Shane Young	54.5%	714	6
79	Dan Hooker	54.4%	722	7
80	Pat Sabatini	54.1%	266	11
81	Mike Brown	54.0%	385	5
82	Francis Marshall	53.8%	498	6
83	Robert Peralta	53.8%	450	7
84	Sodiq Yusuff	53.7%	1,057	10
85	Kai Kamaka III	53.6%	714	5
86	David Onama	53.4%	708	7
87	Steven Peterson	53.3%	1,444	8
88	Michael Aswell Jr.	53.2%	735	5
89	Kyle Nelson	53.1%	808	8
90	Leonard Garcia	53.1%	1,102	6
91	Yair Rodriguez	52.7%	1,624	14
92	Morgan Charriere	52.3%	717	7
93	Jose Delgado	52.2%	561	7
94	Melquizael Costa	52.1%	609	8
95	Rony Jason	51.9%	420	7
96	Jason Knight	51.6%	715	9
97	Ricardo Ramos	51.5%	726	10
98	Nate Landwehr	51.2%	1,256	11
99	Darren Elkins	51.1%	2,392	29
100	Hyder Amil	51.0%	473	7

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.