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    Most Total Strikes in a UFC Round

    The most total strikes ever landed in a single five-minute round — modern five-minute rounds only, so the no-time-limit era does not distort the record.

    50 record performances
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    1
    Punahele Soriano
    Punahele Soriano vs Miguel Baeza
    184 Total Strikes Round 3
    2
    Matthew Riddle
    Matthew Riddle vs Steve Bruno
    168 Total Strikes Round 3
    3
    Khamzat Chimaev
    Khamzat Chimaev vs Dricus Du Plessis
    156 Total Strikes Round 3
    4
    Jon Fitch
    Jon Fitch vs BJ Penn
    149 Total Strikes Round 3
    5
    JunYong Park
    JunYong Park vs John Phillips
    143 Total Strikes Round 2
    6
    Merab Dvalishvili
    Merab Dvalishvili vs Marlon Moraes
    142 Total Strikes Round 2
    7
    Neil Magny
    Neil Magny vs Hector Lombard
    142 Total Strikes Round 2
    8
    Max Holloway
    Max Holloway vs Brian Ortega
    141 Total Strikes Round 4
    9
    Max Holloway
    Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar
    141 Total Strikes Round 4
    10
    Jasmine Jasudavicius
    Jasmine Jasudavicius vs Priscila Cachoeira
    138 Total Strikes Round 1
    11
    Nick Diaz
    Nick Diaz vs Drew Fickett
    136 Total Strikes Round 1
    12
    Valentina Shevchenko
    Valentina Shevchenko vs Priscila Cachoeira
    135 Total Strikes Round 2
    13
    Joshua Van
    Joshua Van vs Felipe Bunes
    131 Total Strikes Round 2
    14
    Khamzat Chimaev
    Khamzat Chimaev vs Dricus Du Plessis
    131 Total Strikes Round 1
    15
    Jared Gordon
    Jared Gordon vs Chris Fishgold
    131 Total Strikes Round 3
    16
    Jeff Molina
    Jeff Molina vs Aoriqileng
    130 Total Strikes Round 3
    17
    Sergey Khandozhko
    Sergey Khandozhko vs Rustam Khabilov
    130 Total Strikes Round 3
    18
    Nick Diaz
    Nick Diaz vs BJ Penn
    127 Total Strikes Round 2
    19
    Stipe Miocic
    Stipe Miocic vs Mark Hunt
    125 Total Strikes Round 3
    20
    Junior Assuncao
    Junior Assuncao vs Eddie Yagin
    123 Total Strikes Round 3
    21
    Joel Alvarez
    Joel Alvarez vs Vicente Luque
    122 Total Strikes Round 2
    22
    Jessica Andrade
    Jessica Andrade vs Claudia Gadelha
    121 Total Strikes Round 3
    23
    Ryan Janes
    Ryan Janes vs Andrew Sanchez
    120 Total Strikes Round 2
    24
    Dominick Reyes
    Dominick Reyes vs Anthony Smith
    119 Total Strikes Round 2
    25
    Khamzat Chimaev
    Khamzat Chimaev vs John Phillips
    118 Total Strikes Round 1
    26
    Tim Elliott
    Tim Elliott vs Louis Gaudinot
    117 Total Strikes Round 3
    27
    Cain Velasquez
    Cain Velasquez vs Cheick Kongo
    117 Total Strikes Round 3
    28
    Ange Loosa
    Ange Loosa vs AJ Fletcher
    116 Total Strikes Round 3
    29
    Denis Tiuliulin vs Sedriques Dumas
    116 Total Strikes Round 2
    30
    Aleksandar Rakic
    Aleksandar Rakic vs Justin Ledet
    115 Total Strikes Round 2
    31
    Aaron Rosa
    Aaron Rosa vs Matt Lucas
    115 Total Strikes Round 3
    32
    Charles Jourdain
    Charles Jourdain vs Shane Burgos
    115 Total Strikes Round 3
    33
    Brian Kelleher
    Brian Kelleher vs Domingo Pilarte
    115 Total Strikes Round 3
    34
    Merab Dvalishvili
    Merab Dvalishvili vs Brad Katona
    114 Total Strikes Round 2
    35
    Dong Hyun Kim
    Dong Hyun Kim vs Jason Tan
    114 Total Strikes Round 1
    36
    Serghei Spivac
    Serghei Spivac vs Carlos Felipe
    114 Total Strikes Round 3
    37
    Zhang Weili
    Zhang Weili vs Amanda Lemos
    114 Total Strikes Round 5
    38
    Max Holloway
    Max Holloway vs Jose Aldo
    114 Total Strikes Round 3
    39
    Petr Yan
    Petr Yan vs Jose Aldo
    113 Total Strikes Round 5
    40
    Jon Fitch
    Jon Fitch vs Erick Silva
    112 Total Strikes Round 3
    41
    Albert Duraev
    Albert Duraev vs Roman Kopylov
    111 Total Strikes Round 2
    42
    Tim Sylvia
    Tim Sylvia vs Wesley Correira
    110 Total Strikes Round 1
    43
    Jasmine Jasudavicius
    Jasmine Jasudavicius vs Priscila Cachoeira
    110 Total Strikes Round 2
    44
    Georges St-Pierre
    Georges St-Pierre vs BJ Penn
    110 Total Strikes Round 4
    45
    Ricky Glenn
    Ricky Glenn vs Gavin Tucker
    109 Total Strikes Round 3
    46
    Eryk Anders
    Eryk Anders vs Chris Weidman
    109 Total Strikes Round 2
    47
    Isaac Vallie-Flagg
    Isaac Vallie-Flagg vs Takanori Gomi
    109 Total Strikes Round 3
    48
    Thomas Petersen
    Thomas Petersen vs Guilherme Pat
    109 Total Strikes Round 3
    49
    Benoit Saint Denis
    Benoit Saint Denis vs Dan Hooker
    108 Total Strikes Round 2
    50
    Jack Hermansson
    Jack Hermansson vs Jacare Souza
    107 Total Strikes Round 2

    The Most Total Strikes in a Single UFC Round

    Total strikes are the widest possible measure of offensive contact: significant blows plus the short, close-range strikes that land from top control and the clinch. This page narrows that measure to its smallest complete container — one scored round — and ranks the heaviest five minutes anyone has produced, first as an individual and then as a two-way total.

    The distinction from the per-fight record matters. Across a full bout, volume is a function of time on the clock, so championship-distance fights own the leaderboard almost by default. Compressed into a single round, the metric becomes rate: how densely can a fighter make contact before the horn. That reshuffles the names entirely, and it lets one dominant round inside an otherwise ordinary fight — or a losing one — outrank a twenty-five-minute grind.

    Reading the leaderboard

    Each row is one fighter's landed total strikes inside one round, taken from official round-by-round statistics, with the round number shown alongside the opponent and event. Use the Single Fighter tab for individual output and Combined for rounds where both athletes were scoring, and apply the division filter to find the ceiling within a specific weight class.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Why are the earliest UFC fights missing from this list?
    Because their rounds were not five minutes long. UFC 1 through 5 ran with no time limit at all, and the mid-1990s used single rounds of ten, fifteen, twenty and even thirty-one minutes. A fighter with half an hour to work will naturally out-land anyone given five, so including those bouts would make the leaderboard meaningless. We therefore count only fights whose every scheduled round is five minutes, which is the modern standard.
    What counts as a total strike in these round rankings?
    Every strike that lands is counted: power shots on the feet, jabs and pawing punches, clinch knees, and the short strikes a fighter throws from top position on the mat. Significant strikes are a subset of that number, which is why the totals here run well above the significant-strike round list.
    Why would a single round beat a whole fight for excitement?
    A fight total is a story about endurance across up to twenty-five minutes, so the biggest numbers belong to main-event fighters who simply had more clock. A round total is a rate measurement locked to exactly five minutes, so a prelim fighter who spends one round in mount can post a figure that no amount of pacing over a full bout can imitate.
    Do grapplers dominate this list the way they do the fight version?
    Even more so. Sustained top control is the only realistic way to land strikes at that density, and a round that begins with an early takedown gives a fighter close to the full five minutes to work. Stand-up specialists appear when a round turns into an uninterrupted firefight, but position tends to beat pace over a short window.
    Can a round from a fight the athlete lost appear here?
    Yes, and it happens regularly. The ranking looks only at what one fighter did inside one round, with no reference to the scorecards or the finish. A fighter can bury an opponent in strikes for five minutes and then be reversed, submitted, or out-pointed across the remaining rounds while keeping their place on this list.