Most control time in UFC heavyweight history

Curtis Blaydes holds the UFC heavyweight record for most control time with 1:31:20 control time.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Control time	Fights
1	Curtis Blaydes	1:31:20	22
2	Marcin Tybura	1:15:30	25
3	Randy Couture	1:07:17	14
4	Cain Velasquez	1:07:02	15
5	Cheick Kongo	58:20	18
6	Stipe Miocic	57:16	19
7	Jailton Almeida	57:01	9
8	Alistair Overeem	48:09	20
9	Jared Rosholt	44:13	8
10	Alexandr Romanov	42:22	10
11	Serghei Spivac	41:35	16
12	Roy Nelson	41:04	19
13	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	39:48	12
14	Ricco Rodriguez	39:35	7
15	Frank Mir	39:11	27
16	Gabriel Gonzaga	37:10	22
17	Fabricio Werdum	36:04	18
18	Aleksei Oleinik	35:12	17
19	Timothy Johnson	33:52	7
20	Brock Lesnar	33:15	8
21	Ben Rothwell	32:17	17
22	Andrei Arlovski	32:06	42
23	Derrick Lewis	30:49	32
24	Kevin Randleman	30:03	5
25	Jake O'Brien	29:44	5
26	Mike Russow	29:27	6
27	Thomas Petersen	29:04	7
28	Josh Barnett	28:59	10
29	Luis Henrique	28:26	5
30	Ilir Latifi	27:46	4
31	Anthony Hamilton	26:55	10
32	Jeff Monson	26:19	6
33	Karl Williams	25:58	4
34	Tai Tuivasa	25:05	19
35	Brendan Schaub	24:35	11
36	Shawn Jordan	23:38	10
37	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	23:25	11
38	Alexander Volkov	22:53	19
39	Martin Buday	22:28	8
40	Shamil Gaziev	22:25	7
41	Tim Sylvia	22:13	13
42	Arjan Bhullar	21:41	4
43	Viktor Pesta	21:40	5
44	Soa Palelei	21:24	7
45	Ron Waterman	21:00	4
46	Daniel Cormier	20:37	6
47	Justin McCully	20:33	4
48	Stefan Struve	20:14	24
49	Travis Browne	20:10	17
49	Rodrigo Nascimento	20:10	8

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How we count: results and statistics are from official UFC fight data. Strike and takedown numbers only exist for fights where the UFC recorded them.