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	Ivan Salaverry	71.8%	209	7
2	Chael Sonnen	67.7%	424	10
3	Nate Quarry	66.3%	498	10
4	Yousri Belgaroui	65.9%	358	5
5	Martin Kampmann	65.9%	255	5
6	Wanderlei Silva	65.9%	246	5
7	Michael Bisping	65.7%	2,625	24
8	Nick Catone	65.5%	521	6
9	Riki Fukuda	64.2%	809	5
10	Dongi Yang	63.7%	546	5
11	Lorenz Larkin	63.7%	408	5
12	Gegard Mousasi	63.7%	410	11
13	Thiago Santos	63.6%	492	15
14	Yushin Okami	62.8%	1,301	18
15	Nick Ring	62.8%	827	6
16	Daniel Kelly	61.7%	1,172	10
17	Demian Maia	61.6%	693	13
18	Alessio Di Chirico	61.5%	1,011	11
19	Eugene Jackson	61.1%	126	7
20	Makhmud Muradov	61.1%	519	6
21	Tom Lawlor	61.0%	356	8
22	Sean Strickland	60.9%	3,274	15
23	Dean Lister	60.9%	358	5
24	Ricardo Almeida	60.8%	209	6
25	Yoel Romero	60.7%	1,517	13
26	Nassourdine Imavov	60.4%	942	10
27	Caio Borralho	60.2%	1,011	10
28	Alessio Sakara	60.2%	372	8
29	Bo Nickal	60.2%	256	9
30	Trevin Giles	60.0%	462	7
31	Albert Duraev	59.9%	399	5
32	Kyle Noke	59.9%	167	5
33	Jacare Souza	59.6%	1,157	15
34	Jorge Santiago	59.6%	270	5
35	Evan Tanner	59.2%	628	12
36	Lyoto Machida	59.2%	515	9
37	Ryan Jensen	59.2%	262	8
38	Luke Barnatt	59.1%	677	6
39	Ian Heinisch	59.0%	639	8
40	Alan Belcher	58.9%	967	13
41	Clint Hester	58.9%	548	6
42	Zak Cummings	58.8%	403	5
43	Francis Carmont	58.7%	419	9
44	Dan Henderson	58.7%	695	9
45	Nate Marquardt	58.6%	1,143	23
46	Daniel Sarafian	58.6%	304	5
47	Rousimar Palhares	58.4%	392	11
48	Nursulton Ruziboev	58.1%	105	6
49	Tim Credeur	57.9%	271	5
50	Marvin Vettori	57.7%	2,941	17
51	Karl Roberson	57.7%	350	7
52	Rafael Natal	57.6%	1,236	17
53	Tim Kennedy	57.5%	391	5
54	Khamzat Chimaev	57.5%	412	6
55	Anderson Silva	57.5%	1,349	20
56	Hector Lombard	57.4%	618	8
57	Aaron Simpson	57.4%	659	9
58	Krzysztof Jotko	57.3%	1,121	17
59	Mike Massenzio	57.2%	306	6
60	Jorge Rivera	57.1%	653	15
61	Jack Hermansson	57.0%	1,727	18
62	Vitor Miranda	57.0%	495	6
63	Marco Tulio	57.0%	395	6
64	Mark Munoz	56.9%	659	14
65	Israel Adesanya	56.8%	2,179	18
66	David Branch	56.7%	363	9
67	Abdul Razak Alhassan	56.6%	332	6
68	Jack Marshman	56.5%	787	8
69	Tim Boetsch	56.5%	1,012	17
70	Robert Whittaker	56.5%	1,920	19
71	Abus Magomedov	56.4%	599	8
72	Rich Franklin	56.4%	422	10
73	Caio Magalhaes	56.4%	362	7
74	Maki Pitolo	56.4%	433	6
75	Chris Camozzi	56.3%	1,521	19
76	Charles Byrd	55.9%	179	6
77	Antonio Carlos Junior	55.7%	533	10
78	Kevin Holland	55.7%	948	16
79	Phil Hawes	55.7%	537	10
80	Eric Spicely	55.7%	591	7
81	Drew McFedries	55.6%	144	8
82	Jacob Malkoun	55.4%	523	9
83	Oluwale Bamgbose	55.4%	193	5
84	Dalcha Lungiambula	55.3%	488	5
85	Andrey Pulyaev	55.1%	363	5
86	Constantinos Philippou	55.1%	610	9
87	CB Dollaway	55.0%	887	18
88	Joaquin Buckley	55.0%	669	9
89	Brad Scott	54.9%	557	6
90	Brad Tavares	54.9%	2,682	28
91	Oskar Piechota	54.7%	265	5
92	Cezar Ferreira	54.6%	729	13
93	Joseph Holmes	54.6%	273	5
94	Kelvin Gastelum	54.6%	1,992	16
95	Michal Oleksiejczuk	54.5%	605	11
96	Bevon Lewis	54.3%	372	6
97	Uriah Hall	54.2%	1,582	18
98	Jeremy Horn	54.2%	251	10
99	Alex Pereira	54.2%	445	5
100	Dricus Du Plessis	54.1%	1,604	11

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.