Most Split Decision Wins in UFC History
Fighters who most often had the judges disagree — and still got their hand raised
2026 Stats
About Most Split Decision Wins in UFC History
This leaderboard ranks UFC fighters by the number of fights they have won by split decision — the closest, most argued-about result in the sport. A split decision means two of the three judges saw the fight one way and the third saw it the other, so by definition these are the bouts that could just as easily have gone the other way. Fighters near the top of this list have lived in that margin repeatedly and come out ahead.
What a pile of split decisions actually tells you
There are two very different ways to end up here. The first is stylistic: fighters who grind, clinch, pressure and out-work opponents in rounds that never produce a clear defining moment tend to generate close scorecards no matter who they face. The second is competitive level — the deeper a fighter goes into the rankings, the better the opposition, and elite matchups are simply harder to win decisively. Both routes produce the same statistical fingerprint, which is why this page is best read alongside a fighter's finish rate rather than on its own.
It is worth remembering what this list does not measure. It counts only the split decisions a fighter won, so it says nothing about how many they lost the same way. A fighter with several split wins and several split losses has simply fought a career of close fights; one with split wins and few split losses has a genuine knack for finishing rounds strongly and leaving the right impression on the judges.
Judging remains the most contested part of mixed martial arts, and every entry here represents a night where at least one official disagreed with the outcome. Compare these names with our ELO rankings, which weigh how a fight was won rather than just that it was won, and browse the rest of our UFC statistics to see the styles behind the scorecards.