Who has the most finishes in MMA history?

Across major MMA promotions, Masakatsu Funaki has the most finishes, with 38.

Scope: major promotions only (UFC, Pride, Bellator, ONE, PFL, Rizin, Strikeforce, WEC, Cage Warriors, KSW, ACA, Pancrase, Shooto and more). This excludes the regional and unsanctioned bouts that inflate raw career totals — switch to all promotions for those.

# Fighter finishes

Masakatsu Funaki 38 2

Yuki Kondo 34 3

Shinya Aoki 28 4

Ikuhisa Minowa 28 5

Fedor Emelianenko 28 6

Mirko Filipovic 28 7

Gegard Mousasi 26 8

Alistair Overeem 24 9

Mamed Khalidov 23 10

Ken Shamrock 23 11

Bas Rutten 23 12 Manabu Yamada 22 13

Minoru Suzuki 22 14

Tatsuya Kawajiri 22 15

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 21 16

Charles Oliveira 21 17

Cristiane Justino 20 18

Donald Cerrone 20 19

Kyoji Horiguchi 20 20

Wanderlei Silva 20 21

Jim Miller 20 22

Alexander Volkov 20 23

Yoshiro Maeda 19 24

Semmy Schilt 19 25

Nate Marquardt 19 26

Kazuo Takahashi 19 27

Sergei Kharitonov 18 32 Rumina Sato 18 33

Mauricio Rua 18 34

Takanori Gomi 18 35

Kazushi Sakuraba 18 36

Michael Chandler 17 37

Jan Blachowicz 17 43 Ryushi Yanagisawa 17 44

Ivan Buchinger 17 45

Matt Hughes 16 46 Osami Shibuya 16 47

FAQ

Who has the most finishes in MMA history?

Across major MMA promotions, Masakatsu Funaki has the most finishes, with 38. The full leaderboard of the top 50 is below.

How is this ranking measured?

Professional MMA fighters ranked by total finishes — wins by knockout (KO/TKO) or submission.

Why are these totals lower than other sites?

By default we count only bouts in major promotions, so volume records padded by regional or unsanctioned shows don't distort the leaderboard. The all-promotions view includes every promotion on record.

Who are the top 3 for finishes?

The top three are Masakatsu Funaki (38 finishes), Yuki Kondo (34 finishes), Shinya Aoki (28 finishes).