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    Most Significant Strikes Landed

    Filters All divisions · All time · Men of 1,547
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    166
    Volkan Oezdemir
    Volkan Oezdemir 9-7 Light Heavyweight
    751 Sig. Strikes 46.9/fight·48.4% acc
    167
    Louis Smolka
    Louis Smolka 8-9 Flyweight
    747 Sig. Strikes 43.9/fight·47.4% acc
    168
    Magomed Ankalaev
    Magomed Ankalaev 13-2-1 Light Heavyweight
    744 Sig. Strikes 43.8/fight·52.4% acc
    169
    John Dodson
    John Dodson 10-7 Bantamweight
    742 Sig. Strikes 43.6/fight·40.7% acc
    170
    Brian Ortega
    Brian Ortega 8-5 Featherweight
    742 Sig. Strikes 53.0/fight·37.3% acc
    171
    JunYong Park
    JunYong Park 9-4 Middleweight
    742 Sig. Strikes 57.1/fight·51.6% acc
    172
    Demian Maia
    Demian Maia 22-11 Welterweight
    739 Sig. Strikes 22.4/fight·43.6% acc
    173
    Hakeem Dawodu
    Hakeem Dawodu 6-4 Featherweight
    734 Sig. Strikes 73.4/fight·50.9% acc
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    174
    Gabriel Benitez
    Gabriel Benitez 7-8 Featherweight
    731 Sig. Strikes 48.7/fight·41.7% acc
    175
    Joaquin Buckley
    Joaquin Buckley 11-6 Welterweight
    723 Sig. Strikes 42.5/fight·36.4% acc
    176
    Scott Holtzman
    Scott Holtzman 7-6 Lightweight
    723 Sig. Strikes 55.6/fight·47.8% acc
    177
    Mike Perry
    Mike Perry 7-8 Welterweight
    722 Sig. Strikes 48.1/fight·47.4% acc
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    178
    Corey Anderson
    Corey Anderson 10-5 Light Heavyweight
    721 Sig. Strikes 48.1/fight·46.3% acc
    179
    Sean Woodson
    Sean Woodson 7-2-1 Featherweight
    721 Sig. Strikes 72.1/fight·46.6% acc
    180
    Cain Velasquez
    Cain Velasquez 12-3 Heavyweight
    719 Sig. Strikes 47.9/fight·57.6% acc

    The UFC's highest-volume strikers ranked by total significant strikes landed across all tracked fights.

    About Significant Strike Leaders

    This leaderboard ranks UFC fighters by the total number of significant strikes landed across all tracked bouts. Significant strikes include power punches, kicks, knees, and elbows that are thrown with intent to cause damage, as distinguished from jabs or control strikes.

    Key Metrics Explained

    • Total Sig. Strikes Landed: The cumulative number of significant strikes that connected across all fights with available statistics.
    • Per-Fight Average: Average significant strikes landed per bout, indicating a fighter's volume on a per-fight basis.
    • Accuracy %: The percentage of significant strikes attempted that successfully landed. Higher accuracy indicates a more precise striker.
    • Landed / Attempted: The raw count of strikes landed versus total attempts, providing full context for the accuracy percentage.

    Methodology

    Fighters must have a minimum of 3 fights with recorded statistics and at least 100 significant strike attempts to appear on this leaderboard. This ensures statistical relevance and filters out fighters with limited data. All statistics are sourced from official UFC fight stats and updated after each event.

    Limits worth knowing

    A strike total is a count, not a damage score. Every landed significant strike adds one to the tally whether it was a glancing calf kick or the head kick that ended the night, so this board measures output rather than effect. It also says nothing about what a fighter took in return; for that, read it beside the strikes absorbed board.

    Volume is also a function of time in the cage. A fighter who regularly goes 15 or 25 minutes has far more opportunity to accumulate strikes than an equally dangerous finisher who ends fights early, which is why the Per Fight tab is often the fairer read. Per-round statistics are recorded for roughly 8,750 of the 8,800-plus bouts in our database, so a small number of fights, mostly from the earliest era, contribute nothing to any figure here.

    Because a division view counts only the bouts contested at that weight, the figures for anyone who changed division divide between their divisions rather than repeating in each. To rank fighters by quality of opposition rather than raw output, our ELO ratings are the better tool, and each career breaks down in full on the fighter profiles. The rest of our UFC statistics put this number in context.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    What does significant strikes landed actually measure?
    Significant strikes landed counts every power punch, kick, knee, and elbow that connects with intent to damage, excluding jabs flicked at range and control strikes thrown from clinch or ground positions. It is the cleanest single number for gauging a fighter's offensive output, since it filters out the low-impact volume that pads raw total-strike counts.
    Why do high-volume strikers not always have high accuracy?
    Volume strikers throw constantly to overwhelm opponents and dictate pace, which naturally drives their connect rate down as they fire into guards, on the move, and at the edge of range. A pressure fighter landing 35 percent of a huge attempt count can still rack up more total significant strikes than a sniper landing 60 percent of a far smaller sample.
    Why use a per-fight average alongside the career total?
    A career total rewards longevity, so a 20-fight veteran can sit atop the list without being an exceptional per-round volume striker. The per-fight average normalizes for that, exposing which fighters truly flood opponents with output every time they step in versus those who simply accumulated their numbers over many appearances.
    How does fight time affect these strike totals?
    Strike totals are heavily shaped by how long fights last, so finishers who end bouts in the first round often trail decision-heavy fighters who routinely log 15 or 25 minutes of cage time. When comparing two names here, factor in their finishing rates and average fight duration, because more rounds means more opportunities to accumulate significant strikes.