The 54 fighters with the most submissions in the UFC

Every fighter on this list is ranked on one number: wins by submission, including technical and verbal ones. Nothing else is weighed, and the figures each ranking rests on are in the table. These are UFC bouts only.

Submissions — the leading 15. Every one of the 54 is in the table below.

#	Fighter	Years	Submissions	Bouts	Wins	KO/TKO
1	Charles Oliveira	2010–2026	15	33	22	4
2	Jim Miller	2008–2026	12	45	26	6
3	Demian Maia	2007–2021	11	30	20	1
3	Gerald Meerschaert	2016–2026	11	25	12	1
5	Royce Gracie	1993–2006	10	13	11	1
6	Nate Diaz	2007–2022	9	25	15	2
7	Frank Mir	2001–2016	8	26	16	5
7	Gunnar Nelson	2012–2025	8	16	10	0
7	Islam Makhachev	2015–2026	8	19	18	3
10	Joe Lauzon	2006–2019	7	27	15	6
10	Cole Miller	2007–2016	7	20	10	1
10	Alexey Oleynik	2014–2022	7	17	9	1
10	Renato Moicano	2014–2026	7	19	13	2
10	Rani Yahya	2011–2024	7	20	13	0
10	Gillian Robertson	2018–2026	7	20	13	3
10	Glover Teixeira	2012–2023	7	23	16	6
10	Brendan Allen	2019–2026	7	17	14	2
18	Rousimar Palhares	2008–2013	6	12	8	0
18	Stefan Struve	2009–2020	6	23	12	4
18	Kenny Florian	2005–2011	6	15	10	2
18	Chris Lytle	2000–2011	6	19	10	1
18	Jon Jones	2008–2023	6	23	21	5
18	Donald Cerrone	2011–2022	6	37	22	10
18	Tony Ferguson	2011–2023	6	23	15	5
18	Urijah Faber	2011–2019	6	17	11	1
18	Ovince Saint Preux	2013–2024	6	27	15	5
18	Jake Matthews	2014–2026	6	24	16	2
18	Michael Chiesa	2013–2026	6	19	12	0
18	Vicente Luque	2015–2026	6	24	16	8
18	Paul Craig	2016–2025	6	19	9	3
31	Martin Kampmann	2006–2013	5	15	9	1
31	Matt Hughes	1999–2011	5	25	18	8
31	Ken Shamrock	1993–2006	5	15	7	2
31	Dan Severn	1994–2000	5	13	9	1
31	Oleg Taktarov	1995	5	9	6	0
31	Thales Leites	2007–2018	5	20	13	2
31	Ed Herman	2006–2023	5	26	13	4
31	Demetrious Johnson	2011–2018	5	17	14	2
31	Thiago Tavares	2007–2015	5	17	9	1
31	Khabib Nurmagomedov	2012–2020	5	13	13	2
31	Dustin Poirier	2011–2024	5	29	21	9
31	Antônio Carlos Júnior	2014–2021	5	12	6	0
31	Nikita Krylov	2013–2026	5	22	12	5
31	Beneil Dariush	2014–2026	5	25	16	3
31	Gilbert Burns	2014–2026	5	25	15	3
31	Mackenzie Dern	2018–2026	5	16	11	0
31	Anthony Smith	2016–2025	5	23	13	6
31	Tatiana Suarez	2017–2026	5	10	9	1
31	Misha Cirkunov	2015–2022	5	13	6	1
31	Mickey Gall	2016–2024	5	12	6	0
31	Grant Dawson	2019–2026	5	15	12	2
31	Rodolfo Vieira	2019–2026	5	12	6	0
31	Shavkat Rakhmonov	2020–2023	5	6	6	1
31	Valter Walker	2024–2026	5	6	5	0

How this list is made

Ranked on submissions: wins by submission, including technical and verbal ones. Fighters are ranked on that number alone and on nothing else. Where two are level they share a rank, and the list runs past fifty when fiftieth place is shared, because splitting a tie would mean choosing between them on no stated basis.

These are UFC bouts and nothing else. A fighter’s record in other promotions is not counted, so someone with a long career elsewhere can appear here with a short one. This is not a career record and does not claim to be.

312 bout records carry no usable result and are counted in nothing — not as a win, a loss or a bout. A bout record is one fighter’s side of one fight, so a fight between two fighters who each have a page here appears as two of them.

Bout results from the UFC event articles on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, and fighter identities from Wikidata (public domain).

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