UFC Single-Fight Records
Every fight record
Most significant strikes in a fight
Top 50
Most total strikes in a fight
Top 50
Most takedowns in a fight
Top 50
Most takedown attempts in a fight
Top 50Most knockdowns in a fight
Top 50
Most control time in a fight
Top 50
Most submission attempts in a fight
Top 50
Most head strikes in a fight
Top 50Most leg strikes in a fight
Top 50
Most ground strikes in a fight
Top 50
Most significant strikes absorbed in a win
Top 50
The UFC single-fight record book
Every figure on this page is what one fighter did (or, on the absorbed board, took) across one complete bout, summed over its rounds. No era is filtered out.
Career totals reward longevity. A fight record captures something more visceral: the one night a fighter did something nobody else ever has. These boards read differently from the rest of the statistics section because the record belongs to a moment rather than a career — so each row carries the opponent it happened to, whether the fighter went on to win, and the night it happened on, and links straight to that fight rather than to the fighter.
As the book stands, the marks to beat are 445 significant strikes in a fight by Max Holloway against Calvin Kattar in January 2021; 21 takedowns in a fight by Khabib Nurmagomedov against Abel Trujillo in May 2013; 6 knockdowns in a fight by Steven Nguyen against Mohammad Yahya in July 2025.
The longest-standing record on this page is most control time in a fight — 22:18 by Sean Sherk in July 2007, unbeaten for 19 years.
How a record is measured
Every figure comes from the official round-by-round statistics filed for each bout that carries a complete set, going back to 1994. Where the source column records attempts as well as landed strikes, the row shows both: the top row of the significant-strikes board reads 445 of 744, because on a fight board the rate is the story. Knockdowns, submission attempts and control time have no denominator, so they stand alone. W or L on a row is whether the fighter went on to win that bout. Equal figures are listed in one fixed order, the same one the full leaderboard uses, so a tied mark sits in the same slot here and there.
Where the numbers stop
Bouts without round-by-round statistics cannot appear here at all. That mostly means a handful of early events and the odd bout whose stats were never filed. Nothing on this page is an estimate: if we do not hold the fight, the fight is not in the book — we would rather show you a shorter list than a guessed one. The book is rebuilt from the database twice a day.
Looking for career totals instead? Every board here has a lifetime counterpart in the full statistics index — most significant strikes landed in a career, most takedowns, most knockdowns and the rest.
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