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    Most UFC Title Fight Finishes

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    16
    Israel Adesanya
    Israel Adesanya 3 KO · of 7 wins
    3 FINISHES
    17
    Henry Cejudo
    Henry Cejudo 3 KO · of 4 wins
    3 FINISHES
    18
    Max Holloway
    Max Holloway 3 KO · of 4 wins
    3 FINISHES
    19
    Tim Sylvia
    Tim Sylvia 3 KO · of 5 wins
    3 FINISHES
    20
    Ilia Topuria
    Ilia Topuria 3 KO · of 3 wins
    3 FINISHES
    21
    Kamaru Usman
    Kamaru Usman 3 KO · of 6 wins
    3 FINISHES
    22
    Cain Velasquez
    Cain Velasquez 3 KO · of 4 wins
    3 FINISHES
    23
    Chris Weidman
    Chris Weidman 3 KO · of 4 wins
    3 FINISHES
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    24
    Brock Lesnar
    Brock Lesnar 2 KO · 1 SUB · of 3 wins
    3 FINISHES
    25
    Pat Miletich
    Pat Miletich 1 KO · 2 SUB · of 5 wins
    3 FINISHES
    26
    Khabib Nurmagomedov
    Khabib Nurmagomedov 3 SUB · of 4 wins
    3 FINISHES
    27
    Jose Aldo
    Jose Aldo 2 KO · of 7 wins
    2 FINISHES
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    28
    Junior Dos Santos
    Junior Dos Santos 2 KO · of 2 wins
    2 FINISHES
    29
    Rich Franklin
    Rich Franklin 2 KO · of 3 wins
    2 FINISHES
    30
    Conor McGregor
    Conor McGregor 2 KO · of 2 wins
    2 FINISHES
    2026 Stats

    About Most UFC Title Fight Finishes

    Championship bouts ended inside the distance - by knockout or submission

    This leaderboard ranks UFC fighters by how many championship fights they finished — every title bout won by knockout, technical knockout or submission. It is a deliberately narrower question than who won the most title fights: a decision win keeps the belt just as well, but it does not answer whether a champion could end a fight against the best opposition the division could offer.

    Why the numbers are small

    Finishing anyone in a title fight is rare. The opponent is a champion or the top contender, the bout is scheduled for five rounds instead of three, and both camps have had a full training camp aimed at this one night. Fighters who finish two-thirds of their ordinary bouts often finish barely a third of their championship ones, so a figure that would be unremarkable on our most finishes board is exceptional here.

    Reading the split

    The caption under each name breaks the total into knockouts and submissions and sets it against that fighter's title wins, which is where the character of a reign shows. Alex Pereira finished all six of his title wins and every one by knockout. Demetrious Johnson's seven are mostly submissions. Jon Jones has more title wins than anyone but finished half of them. Three very different championship careers that a single number would flatten.

    Read this next to most title fight wins for the raw championship record, most title fights for how often a fighter reached that stage at all, and highest finish rate for the career-wide version of the same instinct. The full collection is on the UFC statistics hub.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    What counts as a title fight finish?
    A championship bout that ended inside the distance — by knockout, technical knockout or submission — with the fighter listed as the winner. Decisions are excluded, which is the entire point of the board: it separates the champions who ended fights from the champions who won them on the cards. Anderson Silva leads with 9, one clear of Matt Hughes and Jon Jones on 8.
    Do interim title fights count here?
    No. Only fights for the undisputed belt count, which is the same rule every title board on the site uses. An interim belt is not the belt: it is created when the champion cannot defend, so a win over another contender for it is not a win over the champion. Our most title fight wins board applies the identical rule, which matters because this board's caption reads a fighter's finishes against their title wins — if one counted interim belts and the other did not, a fighter could show more finishes than wins.
    Why does a fighter with fewer title wins rank higher?
    Because this ranks finishes, not victories. Jon Jones has 16 title wins to Anderson Silva's 11, but Silva finished 9 of his and Jones 8 of his, so Silva leads. The caption under each name gives the split — how many by knockout, how many by submission, and out of how many title wins — so you can see whether a fighter was a finisher or a decision machine at championship level.
    Is finishing a title fight harder than finishing a normal one?
    Considerably. The opponent is either the champion or the best available contender, championship bouts are five rounds rather than three, and both fighters have prepared for months for this specific night. Most fighters' finish rate drops sharply once they reach a title fight, which is why the numbers on this page are so much smaller than on our most finishes board.

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