Worst Finish Rate in UFC — Title Fights
Title-fight wins that went to the scorecards rather than a finish (min. 3 title wins)
2026 Stats
📋 About Worst Finish Rate in UFC — Title Fights
This is the inverse of our highest finish rate board. It ranks fighters by the share of their wins that ended by KO/TKO or submission, sorted from lowest upward, so the names at the top are the ones who almost always need the judges. We combine every KO/TKO win with every submission win, divide by total wins, and require at least 5 wins before a fighter qualifies.
Because only wins are counted, nothing about how a fighter loses affects their position here. A fighter appears on this list purely because when they get their hand raised, it happens on the scorecards.
What a low finish rate actually tells you
It is tempting to read this board as a list of boring fighters, but that is often the wrong conclusion. Elite wrestlers who win by controlling position, disciplined counter-strikers who refuse to over-commit, and fighters who consistently face top-ranked opposition all tend to cluster here. Finishing someone in the UFC is genuinely difficult, and it gets harder the higher up the rankings you climb, so a low percentage can be a symptom of quality of opposition rather than a lack of danger.
What it does reliably tell you is style. These are fighters who accumulate advantages over 15 or 25 minutes rather than hunting for a single fight-ending moment, and whose fights are decided by output, control and ring craft. Read it alongside the most decision wins board to separate the fighters with a genuinely low rate from those who simply have a long career, and cross-reference the ELO rankings to see how many of them are winning at the very top of their division anyway.