Most Body Strikes in a UFC Round

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

50 record performances
28
Shane Burgos
Shane Burgos vs Makwan Amirkhani
R3 2 Nov 2019
25
28
Karolina Kowalkiewicz
Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs Diana Belbita
R3 7 Oct 2023
25 of 33
28
Marco Tulio
Marco Tulio vs Tresean Gore
R1 12 Apr 2025
25 of 27
28
Chidi Njokuani
Chidi Njokuani vs Joel Alvarez
R3 15 Aug 2026
25 of 29
28
Gabe Green
Gabe Green vs Daniel Rodriguez
R3 30 May 2020
25 of 29
36
Max Holloway
Max Holloway vs Brian Ortega
R4 8 Dec 2018
24 of 30
36
Cristiane Justino
Cristiane Justino vs Lina Lansberg
R1 24 Sep 2016
24 of 30
36
Marcus Brimage
Marcus Brimage vs Jimy Hettes
R1 22 Sep 2012
24 of 51
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36
Chidi Njokuani
Chidi Njokuani vs Jared Gooden
R2 12 Oct 2024
24 of 27
36
Phil Baroni
Phil Baroni vs Matt Lindland
R3 28 Feb 2003
24
36
ChangHo Lee
ChangHo Lee vs Xiao Long
R2 22 Jun 2024
24 of 29
36
Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson vs Justin Gaethje
R2 7 Jul 2017
24 of 28
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36
Victor Henry
Victor Henry vs Raoni Barcelos
R3 22 Jan 2022
24 of 28
36
Fabio Maldonado
Fabio Maldonado vs James McSweeney
R2 16 Oct 2010
24 of 25
36
Fabio Maldonado
Fabio Maldonado vs Roger Hollett
R2 18 May 2013
24 of 28

The most head, body, and leg strikes ever landed inside one five-minute UFC round — switch zones to see where the damage went.

The Most Head, Body, and Leg Strikes in One UFC Round

Target data answers a question raw volume cannot: not how much a fighter threw, but where it went. This record book takes the smallest complete unit in the sport — one scored round — and ranks the heaviest single-round output to the head, the body, and the legs.

Compressing the window changes who appears. Over a full fight, target records belong to whoever survives longest at a high pace, so five-round bouts crowd the leaderboard. Over one round, the only thing that matters is how much a fighter can pour into a zone before the horn — which is why these lists are full of frames from three-round fights, undercard bouts, and rounds their author ultimately lost.

Reading the three lists

Every entry shows the round it came from, so the pattern behind each performance is visible: opening-round blitzes, mid-fight surges once a body attack starts paying, and late frames where an opponent has slowed enough to be hit at will. Use the Head, Body, and Leg tabs to change zone and the division filter to see the ceiling inside a single weight class.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do the Head, Body, and Leg tabs rank on this page?
Each tab ranks one fighter's significant strikes landed to that zone inside a single scored round, taken from official per-round statistics. The same five minutes can appear on more than one list if a fighter attacked several zones heavily, but each tab counts only the strikes aimed at its own target.
Why can a losing fighter appear near the top of a round record?
The list measures one round in isolation, not the outcome of the bout. A fighter who is broken down over the following rounds — or stopped in the next one — can still own the busiest five minutes on record, because nothing that happens after the horn changes what landed inside that window.
How does this differ from the single-fight target records?
A fight record adds up every round, so twenty-five-minute main events accumulate their way to the top of it. A round record is a rate measurement inside a fixed five-minute window, which lets a short-notice prelim or a single frantic frame outrank a full championship fight.
Do the three zones produce comparable numbers?
No, and the gap is the point. Head totals climb fastest because head strikes are thrown from every position, including ground-and-pound, while body work usually comes in measured investments and leg kicks are limited by how often a fighter can commit to them. Compare the three tabs as separate scales rather than one ranking.
Most Head Strikes in a UFC Round - top 10 (MMA.SOCIAL): 1. Jeff Molina vs Aoriqileng (120), 2. Max Holloway vs Brian Ortega (110), 3. Neil Magny vs Hector Lombard (105), 4. Ty Miller vs Billy Ray Goff (97), 5. Steven Asplund vs Sean Sharaf (93), 6. Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar (89), 7. Max Holloway vs Jose Aldo (86), 8. Evan Dunham vs Ricky Glenn (81), 8. Ji Yeon Kim vs Priscila Cachoeira (81), 10. Jessica Andrade vs Rosi Sexton (79)
Most Head Strikes in a UFC Round - top 10, updated Oct 30, 2026.
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