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	Georges St-Pierre	73.0%	1,736	21
2	Luigi Fioravanti	72.2%	558	6
3	Roan Carneiro	66.7%	372	7
4	Pat Miletich	66.4%	253	7
5	Ramazan Emeev	66.3%	596	7
6	Michael Chiesa	66.2%	391	11
7	Nordine Taleb	66.1%	947	11
8	Marcus Davis	65.9%	999	14
9	Kelvin Gastelum	65.7%	766	8
10	Brad Blackburn	65.3%	669	5
11	Jordan Mein	65.3%	648	9
12	Brian Foster	65.2%	115	5
13	Gabriel Bonfim	64.9%	900	9
14	Sean Pierson	64.6%	819	6
15	Demian Maia	64.5%	1,634	20
16	Sam Patterson	64.1%	234	6
17	Paulo Thiago	63.5%	809	13
18	Josh Koscheck	63.2%	1,429	24
19	Ryan LaFlare	63.2%	747	10
20	Kyle Noke	63.2%	448	7
21	Lyman Good	63.0%	595	6
22	Sean Strickland	62.9%	1,048	8
23	Sean Spencer	62.8%	989	7
24	Rick Story	62.5%	1,374	19
25	Rory MacDonald	62.5%	1,329	13
26	Thiago Alves	62.4%	2,623	26
27	Jake Matthews	62.3%	1,499	17
28	Mike Pierce	62.2%	1,086	14
29	John Hathaway	62.0%	571	9
30	Joaquin Buckley	62.0%	836	8
31	Anthony Rocco Martin	62.0%	523	7
32	Luke Cummo	61.9%	281	6
33	Dwight Grant	61.9%	561	8
34	Curtis Millender	61.5%	442	5
35	Lorenz Larkin	61.5%	454	5
36	Jack Della Maddalena	61.3%	1,456	11
37	Martin Kampmann	61.1%	1,073	12
38	Court McGee	61.0%	2,243	19
39	Muslim Salikhov	60.8%	1,157	15
40	Anthony Johnson	60.8%	260	10
41	Mike Pyle	60.7%	1,126	19
42	Jake Ellenberger	60.7%	1,216	21
43	Amir Sadollah	60.7%	1,177	10
44	Santiago Ponzinibbio	60.7%	2,760	20
45	Darren Till	60.3%	766	8
46	Oban Elliott	60.1%	479	7
47	Dhiego Lima	60.1%	820	9
48	Tim Means	60.1%	2,356	25
49	Alan Jouban	60.0%	1,103	13
50	Sean Brady	59.9%	1,014	11
51	Sergio Moraes	59.8%	1,518	13
52	Chidi Njokuani	59.5%	639	6
53	Nicholas Musoke	59.2%	674	5
54	Alex Garcia	59.2%	870	10
55	Dong Hyun Kim	59.1%	863	17
56	Yohan Lainesse	58.9%	263	5
57	Karo Parisyan	58.9%	757	12
58	Richard Walsh	58.9%	511	6
59	Peter Sobotta	58.9%	829	10
60	Joe Riggs	58.8%	194	7
61	Zak Ottow	58.6%	510	8
62	Omari Akhmedov	58.6%	490	7
63	Albert Tumenov	58.5%	598	8
64	Robbie Lawler	58.5%	3,601	23
65	Chris Lytle	58.3%	1,598	19
66	Bojan Velickovic	58.2%	340	5
67	Michel Pereira	58.2%	945	8
68	Daniel Rodriguez	58.0%	1,855	14
69	Max Griffin	58.0%	2,193	19
70	Drew Fickett	57.9%	335	7
71	Cathal Pendred	57.7%	430	5
72	Mike Malott	57.6%	510	9
73	George Sullivan	57.6%	375	7
74	Forrest Petz	57.4%	418	7
75	Rafael Dos Anjos	57.2%	1,438	11
T-76	Brock Larson	57.1%	168	5
T-76	Jake Shields	57.1%	637	7
78	Nick Diaz	57.1%	1,298	13
79	Li Jingliang	57.1%	1,538	17
80	Tyron Woodley	57.1%	1,484	16
81	Geoff Neal	57.0%	1,775	14
82	Keita Nakamura	56.8%	1,025	10
83	Brian Ebersole	56.7%	543	8
84	Matthew Riddle	56.7%	827	9
85	Tarec Saffiedine	56.7%	863	6
86	Mike Swick	56.7%	503	9
87	Duane Ludwig	56.6%	429	6
88	David Mitchell	55.8%	317	5
89	Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	55.6%	1,673	18
90	David Zawada	55.5%	632	5
91	Kamaru Usman	55.4%	1,937	17
92	Alexander Yakovlev	55.3%	398	5
93	Diego Sanchez	55.3%	1,442	19
94	Belal Muhammad	55.2%	3,000	21
95	Matt Brown	55.1%	1,800	30
T-96	Sean Sherk	55.0%	380	6
T-96	Pete Spratt	55.0%	80	7
98	Uros Medic	55.0%	202	8
99	Preston Parsons	54.9%	468	6
100	Stephen Thompson	54.9%	2,126	22

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.