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 28, 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	Phil Davis	72.0%	794	12
2	Ryan Bader	71.6%	989	19
3	Jared Cannonier	68.7%	534	5
4	Eliot Marshall	67.9%	474	6
5	Thiago Silva	67.2%	799	10
6	Rich Franklin	65.6%	366	7
7	Jason Brilz	65.3%	357	7
8	Frank Shamrock	65.2%	115	5
9	Lyoto Machida	65.0%	720	15
10	Jon Jones	64.9%	1,985	21
11	Oumar Sy	64.5%	287	6
12	James Te Huna	64.3%	454	9
13	Rashad Evans	64.0%	1,537	20
14	Brian Stann	62.7%	386	5
15	Michal Oleksiejczuk	62.4%	566	7
16	Cyrille Diabate	62.3%	260	8
17	Forrest Griffin	61.8%	1,146	14
18	Matt Hamill	61.4%	1,526	15
19	Wilson Gouveia	61.4%	378	6
20	Anthony Johnson	61.0%	254	8
21	Keith Jardine	60.8%	1,019	12
22	Navajo Stirling	60.3%	446	7
23	Misha Cirkunov	60.1%	331	11
24	Chuck Liddell	60.0%	1,015	19
25	Randy Couture	59.6%	332	10
26	Iwo Baraniewski	59.6%	230	5
27	Diyar Nurgozhay	59.5%	262	5
28	Tito Ortiz	59.5%	1,698	23
29	Francimar Barroso	59.4%	849	8
30	Krzysztof Soszynski	59.1%	584	9
31	Luiz Cane	59.0%	420	8
32	Corey Anderson	59.0%	875	14
33	Tim Boetsch	58.5%	455	7
34	Wanderlei Silva	58.2%	318	5
35	Quinton Jackson	58.0%	1,231	12
36	Sam Hoger	57.1%	352	5
37	Dustin Jacoby	56.9%	1,644	17
38	Alessio Sakara	56.6%	143	6
39	Ibo Aslan	56.6%	311	6
40	Tyson Pedro	56.5%	434	11
41	Eric Schafer	56.1%	428	7
42	Azamat Murzakanov	56.0%	482	8
43	Patrick Cummins	55.9%	886	13
44	Ilir Latifi	55.7%	621	12
45	Brendson Ribeiro	55.7%	521	9
46	Magomed Ankalaev	55.4%	1,153	16
47	Volkan Oezdemir	55.4%	1,415	16
48	Vladimir Matyushenko	55.1%	303	9
49	Brandon Vera	54.9%	587	8
50	Rogerio Nogueira	54.7%	874	13
51	Marcin Prachnio	54.6%	744	11
52	Sam Alvey	54.6%	625	8
53	Aleksa Camur	54.5%	615	5
54	Fabio Maldonado	53.7%	1,031	9
55	Alex Pereira	53.7%	561	7
56	Bruno Lopes	53.4%	429	6
57	Elvis Sinosic	52.9%	467	6
58	Gian Villante	52.9%	2,016	15
59	Stephan Bonnar	52.5%	869	14
60	Daniel Cormier	52.3%	683	8
61	Mauricio Rua	52.2%	1,920	24
62	Jason Lambert	51.7%	149	7
63	Jan Blachowicz	51.6%	1,968	23
64	Alexander Gustafsson	51.6%	1,352	17
65	Kyle Kingsbury	51.2%	797	9
66	Aleksandar Rakic	51.2%	688	11
67	Carlos Ulberg	51.1%	706	12
68	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	51.0%	102	6
69	Khalil Rountree Jr.	51.0%	1,328	16
70	Glover Teixeira	51.0%	2,419	23
71	Kennedy Nzechukwu	51.0%	1,250	13
72	Alonzo Menifield	50.5%	1,330	21
73	Renato Sobral	50.3%	193	9
74	Modestas Bukauskas	49.7%	1,009	13
75	Dominick Reyes	49.6%	795	15
76	Da Woon Jung	49.3%	785	9
77	David Heath	49.3%	467	5
78	Jimi Manuwa	49.2%	659	12
79	Nikita Krylov	48.8%	777	19
80	Thiago Santos	48.3%	841	9
81	Rafael Cavalcante	47.5%	379	5
82	Dan Henderson	47.4%	732	8
83	Vitor Petrino	47.2%	381	7
84	Ryan Jimmo	47.0%	347	7
85	Ovince Saint Preux	46.8%	1,671	26
86	Paul Craig	46.6%	665	16
87	Johnny Walker	46.5%	666	16
88	Bogdan Guskov	46.5%	434	7
89	Ion Cuțelaba	46.1%	1,067	21
90	Rodolfo Bellato	46.0%	787	7
91	Sean O'Connell	45.4%	691	7
92	Jiri Prochazka	45.4%	958	9
93	Jamahal Hill	44.9%	902	11
94	Ed Herman	44.6%	1,045	9
95	Evan Tanner	44.4%	81	5
96	Anthony Smith	44.1%	1,847	18
97	Ryan Spann	44.0%	543	14
98	Devin Clark	43.9%	1,050	15
99	Vinicius Moreira	43.1%	204	5
100	Anthony Perosh	42.8%	250	9

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.