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 29, 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	Jon Madsen	81.4%	360	5
2	Tom Aspinall	65.4%	153	9
3	Matt Mitrione	64.6%	695	14
4	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	64.2%	285	6
5	Jake O'Brien	62.8%	172	5
6	Maurice Smith	62.3%	207	7
7	Tim Sylvia	62.2%	913	13
8	Ciryl Gane	62.0%	1,034	13
9	Todd Duffee	61.4%	101	5
10	Jeff Monson	61.3%	385	6
11	Tanner Boser	61.0%	669	9
12	Jared Rosholt	59.9%	404	8
13	Pat Barry	59.6%	606	12
14	Mike Russow	59.2%	473	6
15	Gabriel Gonzaga	59.1%	906	22
16	Mario Pinto	58.9%	180	5
17	Randy Couture	58.8%	636	13
18	Mick Parkin	58.7%	654	6
19	Ricco Rodriguez	57.9%	259	7
20	Mirko Filipovic	57.9%	746	11
21	Justin Willis	57.9%	382	5
22	Chris Daukaus	57.7%	241	7
23	Cain Velasquez	57.6%	628	15
24	Tra Telligman	57.4%	256	5
25	Jhonata Diniz	56.8%	500	6
26	Viktor Pesta	56.7%	293	5
27	Pete Williams	56.4%	236	8
28	Andrei Arlovski	56.2%	3,020	41
29	Junior Dos Santos	56.2%	1,880	23
30	Sergei Pavlovich	56.2%	518	12
31	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	56.1%	820	11
32	Martin Buday	55.7%	1,032	9
33	Karl Williams	55.5%	362	5
34	Shamil Abdurakhimov	55.5%	705	11
35	Brendan Schaub	55.3%	367	10
36	Lukasz Brzeski	55.3%	499	7
37	Curtis Blaydes	55.2%	1,253	21
38	Waldo Cortes Acosta	55.2%	1,268	15
39	Walt Harris	55.0%	671	15
40	Fabricio Werdum	54.9%	1,394	18
41	Thomas Petersen	54.9%	463	8
42	Marcin Tybura	54.7%	2,058	25
43	Cheick Kongo	54.5%	514	18
44	Alexander Volkov	54.4%	1,650	19
45	Kevin Randleman	54.3%	164	5
46	Pedro Rizzo	54.2%	797	14
47	Shane Carwin	54.2%	240	6
48	Alexander Romanov	54.1%	403	10
49	Yorgan De Castro	53.8%	329	5
50	Blagoy Ivanov	53.5%	1,174	8
51	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	52.8%	428	12
52	Kennedy Nzechukwu	52.8%	163	5
53	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	52.4%	784	15
54	Chase Sherman	52.3%	2,237	15
55	Stipe Miocic	52.3%	1,814	19
56	Junior Albini	52.3%	371	5
57	Greg Hardy	52.0%	469	11
58	Junior Tafa	51.9%	206	5
59	Mohammed Usman	51.2%	705	6
60	Alistair Overeem	51.1%	1,205	20
61	Joey Beltran	50.9%	821	7
62	Paul Buentello	50.9%	330	6
63	Serghei Spivac	50.9%	1,211	16
64	Daniel Cormier	50.6%	622	6
65	Carlos Felipe	50.6%	850	5
66	Josh Barnett	50.5%	424	9
67	Jake Collier	50.1%	1,046	8
68	Mark Hunt	50.1%	1,234	17
69	Brock Lesnar	49.8%	231	7
70	Shawn Jordan	49.6%	462	10
71	Parker Porter	49.4%	733	8
72	Brandon Vera	49.2%	323	7
73	Rizvan Kuniev	49.2%	250	5
74	Dave Herman	48.8%	207	5
75	Jamal Pogues	48.8%	607	5
76	Josh Hokit	48.7%	372	5
77	Soa Palelei	48.4%	347	7
78	Daniel Omielanczuk	47.5%	673	9
79	Justin Tafa	47.1%	522	9
80	Antoni Hardonk	47.0%	296	8
81	Stefan Struve	46.5%	1,415	24
82	Don'Tale Mayes	46.5%	1,097	14
83	Tim Hague	46.3%	268	5
84	Rodrigo Nascimento	46.2%	602	8
85	Maurice Greene	45.9%	451	8
86	Anthony Hamilton	45.7%	350	10
87	Augusto Sakai	45.6%	791	9
88	Heath Herring	45.5%	325	5
89	Shamil Gaziev	45.4%	518	8
90	Jared Vanderaa	45.2%	876	8
91	Roy Nelson	44.8%	1,762	18
92	Ben Rothwell	44.7%	1,608	17
93	Luis Henrique	44.5%	209	5
T-94	Jailton Almeida	44.4%	216	9
T-94	Timothy Johnson	44.4%	459	7
96	Aleksei Oleinik	44.3%	790	17
97	Tai Tuivasa	43.7%	1,245	19
98	Eddie Sanchez	43.4%	309	6
99	Valter Walker	43.2%	118	6
100	Travis Browne	42.9%	1,029	17

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.