Most control time in UFC welterweight history

Georges St-Pierre holds the UFC welterweight record for most control time with 2:38:47 control time.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Control time	Fights
1	Georges St-Pierre	2:38:47	21
2	Kamaru Usman	2:26:50	18
3	Colby Covington	2:05:04	17
4	Jon Fitch	1:58:18	17
5	Matt Hughes	1:54:26	23
6	Demian Maia	1:47:01	20
7	Dong Hyun Kim	1:38:36	18
8	Neil Magny	1:35:37	38
9	Josh Koscheck	1:29:02	24
10	Johny Hendricks	1:20:18	18
11	Mike Pierce	1:18:42	14
12	Belal Muhammad	1:16:18	22
13	Rick Story	1:14:54	19
14	Diego Sanchez	1:13:34	19
15	Matthew Riddle	1:13:19	11
16	Leon Edwards	1:10:26	20
17	Sean Brady	1:09:39	11
18	Court McGee	1:05:25	20
19	Matt Brown	59:18	30
20	Karo Parisyan	59:09	13
21	Gunnar Nelson	55:35	15
22	Alex Oliveira	54:55	19
23	Michael Chiesa	49:55	11
24	Charlie Brenneman	48:06	8
25	Jake Matthews	47:48	17
26	John Hathaway	46:19	9
27	Nicolas Dalby	45:37	15
28	Gilbert Burns	44:34	15
29	Joshua Burkman	44:33	15
30	Themba Gorimbo	43:51	8
31	Ryan LaFlare	42:10	10
32	Rinat Fakhretdinov	41:31	7
33	John Howard	41:26	13
34	Tim Means	38:52	26
35	Max Griffin	38:17	19
36	Shavkat Rakhmonov	37:16	7
37	Roan Carneiro	37:07	7
38	Martin Kampmann	36:51	12
39	Randy Brown	36:46	22
40	Jeremiah Wells	36:45	8
41	Peter Sobotta	36:27	10
42	Rafael Dos Anjos	34:47	11
43	Jake Ellenberger	34:43	21
44	Sean Sherk	34:06	6
45	Brian Ebersole	33:29	8
46	Vicente Luque	33:07	24
47	Alex Garcia	32:33	10
48	Anthony Johnson	32:31	10
49	Punahele Soriano	32:09	5
50	Islam Makhachev	31:40	2

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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.