Most Distance Strikes in a UFC Round

Most significant strikes landed from one position in a single round. Five-minute rounds only: UFC bouts with round-by-round data, 1999–present.

50 record performances
1
Max Holloway
Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar
R4 16 Jan 2021
139 of 189
2
Max Holloway
Max Holloway vs Brian Ortega
R4 8 Dec 2018
126 of 188
3
Jeff Molina
Jeff Molina vs Aoriqileng
R3 24 Apr 2021
125 of 218
4
Steven Asplund
Steven Asplund vs Sean Sharaf
R2 13 Dec 2025
96 of 149
5
Karol Rosa
Karol Rosa vs Irene Aldana
R3 16 Dec 2023
92 of 153
6
Esteban Ribovics
Esteban Ribovics vs Daniel Zellhuber
R3 14 Sep 2024
90 of 188
7
Tommy McMillen
Tommy McMillen vs Alberto Montes
R2 18 Jul 2026
89 of 181
8
Jessica Andrade
Jessica Andrade vs Rosi Sexton
R2 26 Oct 2013
88 of 135
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8
Jessica Andrade
Jessica Andrade vs Lauren Murphy
R3 21 Jan 2023
88 of 134
10
Max Holloway
Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar
R2 16 Jan 2021
87 of 161
11
Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz vs Donald Cerrone
R3 30 Dec 2011
85 of 124
12
Max Holloway
Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar
R5 16 Jan 2021
84 of 142
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12
Casey O'Neill
Casey O'Neill vs Roxanne Modafferi
R2 12 Feb 2022
84 of 140
14
Max Holloway
Max Holloway vs Jose Aldo
R3 2 Dec 2017
83 of 169
14
Sean O'Malley
Sean O'Malley vs Kris Moutinho
R3 10 Jul 2021
83 of 114

The heaviest five minutes ever spent at range, against the cage, and in top position — single-round striking records split by position.

Distance, Clinch, and Ground: The Biggest Single Rounds at Every Range

Every round in mixed martial arts is decided somewhere — at range, on the fence, or on the canvas. This record book takes the smallest complete unit of the sport, one five-minute round, and asks who landed the most from each of those three positions.

Splitting by round changes who shows up. A fight-long positional record belongs to whoever held their preferred range the longest, and that usually means a five-round main event. A round record has a hard ceiling of five minutes, so it measures density instead of duration: how completely one athlete owned a single position before the horn. A prelim fighter who took someone down early and never let them up can sit above a champion who ground out twenty-five minutes.

Reading the three tabs

Every entry is one fighter's landed strikes from one position in one scored round, taken from official per-round statistics, with the attempted count shown alongside it. Use the Distance, Clinch, and Ground tabs to move between ranges and the division filter to find the record inside a weight class. Each row shows which round the performance came from and links straight to the fight.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the record for the most distance strikes in a UFC round?
Max Holloway, with 139 strikes. Set against Calvin Kattar at UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar, January 2021. Second: Max Holloway (126). Measured over UFC bouts with round-by-round statistics recorded on MMA.SOCIAL. A bout with no per-round data cannot appear here.
What do the Distance, Clinch, and Ground tabs rank here?
Each tab ranks the highest count of significant strikes landed from one position inside a single scored round. Distance covers exchanges at open range, clinch covers close-quarters work against the cage or in the body lock, and ground covers strikes landed once the fight has hit the mat.
Why does a round record favour different fighters than the fight record?
A fight total rewards whoever sustained a position longest, so twenty-five-minute main events crowd the top of that board. A round total asks a narrower question: who did the most inside one uninterrupted five-minute window. That lets a single takedown-and-maul round, or one round of relentless range volume, outrank an entire championship fight.
Which position produces the biggest single-round numbers?
Distance, in raw counts: the highest single-round figures come from open-range volume, where a fighter can throw freely for the whole five minutes. Ground rounds come next, built by a fighter who takes the back or mount early and strikes until the horn, while clinch counts run lowest because clinch exchanges are short and are broken up by the fighters or the referee.
Can a fighter appear on this list from a round they lost the fight in?
Yes. The ranking looks only at strikes landed in that one round, not at the eventual result. Fighters who dominated a round and were then finished later still appear, which is exactly what separates a positional round record from a career or fight-long measure.
Strike Positions — Round, MMA.SOCIAL leaderboard: 1. Max Holloway (139 strikes), 2. Max Holloway (126), 3. Jeff Molina (125)
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What is the record for the most distance strikes in a UFC round?

Max Holloway, with 139 strikes.

Set against Calvin Kattar at UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar, January 2021. Second: Max Holloway (126).

Measured over UFC bouts with round-by-round statistics recorded on MMA.SOCIAL. A bout with no per-round data cannot appear here.