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 October 1, 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	Frank Shamrock	3.9	9	5
2	Renato Sobral	3.4	15	9
3	Wilson Gouveia	2.6	7	6
4	Eric Schafer	2.5	9	7
5	Evan Tanner	2.3	4	5
6	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	2.3	3	6
7	Misha Cirkunov	2.3	6	11
8	Jimmy Crute	2.0	11	13
9	Jason Lambert	2.0	5	7
10	Anthony Perosh	1.9	5	9
11	Paul Craig	1.6	13	16
12	Ryan Spann	1.6	8	14
13	Gadzhimurad Antigulov	1.5	2	6
14	Sam Hoger	1.3	6	5
15	Vinicius Moreira	1.3	2	5
16	Jason Brilz	1.3	6	7
17	Stephan Bonnar	1.2	13	14
18	Krzysztof Soszynski	1.1	6	9
19	David Heath	1.0	3	5
20	Daniel Cormier	1.0	7	8
21	Eliot Marshall	0.9	4	6
22	Vitor Belfort	0.9	4	7
23	Glover Teixeira	0.9	16	23
24	Nikita Krylov	0.8	8	19
25	Tyson Pedro	0.8	4	11
26	Randy Couture	0.7	5	10
27	Johnny Walker	0.7	6	16
28	Bogdan Guskov	0.7	3	7
29	Lyoto Machida	0.7	8	15
30	Forrest Griffin	0.7	7	14
31	Elvis Sinosic	0.7	2	6
32	James Irvin	0.6	1	8
33	Fabio Maldonado	0.6	5	9
34	Vitor Petrino	0.6	3	7
35	Ed Herman	0.6	4	9
36	Oumar Sy	0.6	2	6
37	Sean O'Connell	0.5	2	7
38	Phil Davis	0.5	6	12
39	Tim Boetsch	0.5	2	7
40	Ilir Latifi	0.5	3	12
41	Dan Henderson	0.5	4	8
42	Anthony Smith	0.5	6	18
43	Jon Jones	0.5	10	21
44	Ryan Bader	0.4	6	19
45	Brendson Ribeiro	0.4	2	9
46	Tito Ortiz	0.4	8	23
47	Thiago Silva	0.4	2	10
48	Alexander Gustafsson	0.4	5	17
49	Ovince Saint Preux	0.4	6	26
50	Alex Pereira	0.4	2	7
51	Jan Blachowicz	0.4	7	23
52	Jimi Manuwa	0.4	2	12
53	Igor Pokrajac	0.3	2	12
54	James Te Huna	0.3	1	9
55	Ion Cuțelaba	0.3	3	21
56	Cyrille Diabate	0.3	1	8
57	Dominick Reyes	0.3	2	15
58	Henrique da Silva	0.2	1	7
59	Rogerio Nogueira	0.2	2	13
60	Kennedy Nzechukwu	0.2	2	13
61	Mauricio Rua	0.2	4	24
62	Azamat Murzakanov	0.2	1	8
63	Magomed Ankalaev	0.2	3	16
64	Rodolfo Bellato	0.2	1	7
65	Vladimir Matyushenko	0.2	1	9
66	William Knight	0.2	1	7
67	Alonzo Menifield	0.2	2	21
68	Carlos Ulberg	0.2	1	12
69	Jiri Prochazka	0.2	1	9
70	Da Woon Jung	0.2	1	9
71	Brandon Vera	0.1	1	8
72	Patrick Cummins	0.1	1	13
73	Aleksandar Rakic	0.1	1	11
74	Modestas Bukauskas	0.1	1	13
75	Volkan Oezdemir	0.1	1	16

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