UFC: Most submission attempts per 15 minutes

Name: UFC: Most submission attempts per 15 minutes
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The all-time UFC top 100, rebuilt from every completed UFC fight in our database.

Updated September 24, 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	Most submission attempts per 15 minutes	Submission attempts	Bouts
1	Valter Walker	3.6	6	6
2	Vitor Belfort	3.0	3	5
3	Tsuyoshi Kohsaka	2.3	8	6
4	Frank Mir	2.0	21	27
5	Aleksei Oleinik	1.9	15	17
6	Stefan Struve	1.7	21	24
7	Tom Aspinall	1.6	2	9
8	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	1.6	10	11
9	Jailton Almeida	1.4	8	9
10	Pete Williams	1.4	6	8
11	Gabriel Gonzaga	1.2	11	22
12	Ricco Rodriguez	1.1	6	7
13	Luis Henrique	1.0	4	5
14	Cyril Asker	0.9	1	5
15	Kevin Randleman	0.9	5	5
16	Antoni Hardonk	0.9	3	8
17	Alexander Romanov	0.9	5	10
18	Tim Hague	0.9	2	5
19	Mario Pinto	0.8	2	5
20	Josh Barnett	0.7	4	9
21	Paul Buentello	0.7	2	6
22	Jake Collier	0.7	4	8
23	Matt Mitrione	0.7	4	14
24	Brock Lesnar	0.7	2	7
25	Ian Freeman	0.6	2	6
26	Jeff Monson	0.6	3	6
27	Ciryl Gane	0.6	7	13
28	Maurice Smith	0.6	3	7
29	Rodrigo Nascimento	0.5	3	8
30	Phil De Fries	0.5	1	5
31	Randy Couture	0.5	6	13
32	Ben Rothwell	0.5	6	17
33	Tra Telligman	0.5	1	5
34	Mike Russow	0.5	2	6
35	Fabricio Werdum	0.5	6	18
36	Maurice Greene	0.4	2	8
37	Serghei Spivac	0.4	4	16
38	Josh Hokit	0.4	1	5
39	Lukasz Brzeski	0.4	2	8
40	Brendan Schaub	0.4	2	10
41	Cain Velasquez	0.4	3	15
42	Mirko Filipovic	0.4	3	11
43	Thomas Petersen	0.4	2	8
44	Brandon Vera	0.3	1	7
45	Jake O'Brien	0.3	1	5
46	Francis Ngannou	0.3	2	14
47	Cheick Kongo	0.3	3	18
48	Shamil Gaziev	0.3	1	8
49	Parker Porter	0.3	1	8
50	Alistair Overeem	0.2	3	20
51	Mick Parkin	0.2	1	6
52	Travis Browne	0.2	2	17
53	Pat Barry	0.2	1	12
54	Heath Herring	0.2	1	5
55	Karl Williams	0.2	1	5
56	Josh Parisian	0.2	1	9
57	Andrei Arlovski	0.2	5	41
58	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	0.2	1	12
59	Daniel Cormier	0.2	1	6
60	Walt Harris	0.2	1	15
61	Martin Buday	0.1	1	9
62	Shamil Abdurakhimov	0.1	1	11
63	Jared Rosholt	0.1	1	8
64	Daniel Omielanczuk	0.1	1	9
65	Alexander Volkov	0.1	2	19
66	Blagoy Ivanov	0.1	1	8
67	Tim Sylvia	0.1	1	13
68	Marcin Tybura	0.1	2	25
69	Waldo Cortes Acosta	0.1	1	15
70	Mark Hunt	0.1	1	17
71	Roy Nelson	0.1	1	18
72	Junior Dos Santos	0.1	1	23

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