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    Most Significant Strikes Landed

    181
    Deiveson Figueiredo
    Deiveson Figueiredo 14-7-1 Bantamweight
    718 Sig. Strikes 32.6/fight·53.9% acc
    182
    Fabio Maldonado
    Fabio Maldonado 5-6 Light Heavyweight
    717 Sig. Strikes 65.2/fight·58.9% acc
    183
    Lyoto Machida
    Lyoto Machida 16-8 Light Heavyweight
    716 Sig. Strikes 29.8/fight·51.7% acc
    184
    Alistair Overeem
    Alistair Overeem 12-8 Heavyweight
    715 Sig. Strikes 35.8/fight·74.3% acc
    185
    Urijah Faber
    Urijah Faber 11-7 Bantamweight
    713 Sig. Strikes 39.6/fight·42.0% acc
    186
    Kai Kara-France
    Kai Kara-France 8-5 Flyweight
    712 Sig. Strikes 54.8/fight·40.2% acc
    187
    Lando Vannata
    Lando Vannata 4-8-2 Lightweight
    711 Sig. Strikes 50.8/fight·46.0% acc
    188
    Lerone Murphy
    Lerone Murphy 9-1-1 Featherweight
    707 Sig. Strikes 64.3/fight·51.1% acc
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    189
    Rafael Fiziev
    Rafael Fiziev 8-5 Lightweight
    706 Sig. Strikes 54.3/fight·52.9% acc
    190
    Khabib Nurmagomedov
    Khabib Nurmagomedov 13-0 Lightweight
    705 Sig. Strikes 54.2/fight·48.8% acc
    191
    Alex Pereira
    Alex Pereira 10-3 Heavyweight
    697 Sig. Strikes 53.6/fight·61.4% acc
    192
    Ion Cutelaba
    Ion Cutelaba 9-11-1 Light Heavyweight
    694 Sig. Strikes 33.0/fight·43.6% acc
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    193
    Michal Oleksiejczuk
    Michal Oleksiejczuk 10-8 Middleweight
    694 Sig. Strikes 36.5/fight·52.8% acc
    194
    Nikita Krylov
    Nikita Krylov 12-10 Light Heavyweight
    689 Sig. Strikes 31.3/fight·54.2% acc
    195
    Geoff Neal
    Geoff Neal 8-6 Welterweight
    687 Sig. Strikes 49.1/fight·50.7% 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.