Most ground and pound knockouts in UFC history

Derrick Lewis holds the UFC record for most ground and pound knockouts with 9 ground and pound KO/TKOs.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Ground and pound KO/TKOs	Fights
1	Derrick Lewis	9	32
2	Cain Velasquez	8	15
3	Randy Couture	6	24
3	Neil Magny	6	38
5	Vitor Belfort	5	26
5	Tito Ortiz	5	27
5	Ricco Rodriguez	5	7
5	Matt Brown	5	30
9	Evan Tanner	4	17
9	Matt Hughes	4	25
9	Diego Sanchez	4	32
9	Matt Hamill	4	15
9	Michael Bisping	4	29
9	Jon Jones	4	24
9	Ricardo Lamas	4	17
9	Soa Palelei	4	7
9	Alistair Overeem	4	20
9	Curtis Blaydes	4	22
9	Steve Garcia	4	11
9	Michal Oleksiejczuk	4	19
21	David Abbott	3	18
21	Gary Goodridge	3	8
21	Josh Barnett	3	10
21	Matt Lindland	3	12
21	Josh Koscheck	3	25
21	Andrei Arlovski	3	42
21	Rashad Evans	3	23
21	Yushin Okami	3	21
21	Roger Huerta	3	8
21	Jorge Rivera	3	15
21	Tim Boetsch	3	24
21	Joe Lauzon	3	27
21	Cheick Kongo	3	18
21	Travis Browne	3	17
21	Stipe Miocic	3	19
21	Amanda Nunes	3	18
21	Max Holloway	3	33
21	Alexander Volkanovski	3	18
21	Marcin Tybura	3	25
21	Jack Hermansson	3	19
21	Aspen Ladd	3	7
21	Gregor Gillespie	3	8
21	Sean Strickland	3	25
21	Greg Hardy	3	10
21	Gillian Robertson	3	21
21	Valentina Shevchenko	3	19
21	Jalin Turner	3	15
21	Sean O'Malley	3	16
21	Dusko Todorovic	3	11
21	Paul Craig	3	21
21	Serghei Spivac	3	16
21	Arman Tsarukyan	3	13
21	Jailton Almeida	3	11
21	Edmen Shahbazyan	3	16
21	Diego Lopes	3	10
21	Navajo Stirling	3	6

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How we count: results and statistics are from official UFC fight data.