Most ground and pound knockouts in UFC heavyweight history

Derrick Lewis holds the UFC heavyweight 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	5	14
3	Ricco Rodriguez	5	7
5	Soa Palelei	4	7
5	Alistair Overeem	4	20
5	Curtis Blaydes	4	22
8	Vitor Belfort	3	5
8	Josh Barnett	3	10
8	Andrei Arlovski	3	42
8	Cheick Kongo	3	18
8	Travis Browne	3	17
8	Stipe Miocic	3	19
8	Marcin Tybura	3	25
8	Greg Hardy	3	10
8	Serghei Spivac	3	16
17	Mirko Filipovic	2	11
17	Fabricio Werdum	2	18
17	Shane Carwin	2	6
17	Brock Lesnar	2	8
17	Joey Beltran	2	7
17	Junior Dos Santos	2	23
17	Matt Mitrione	2	14
17	Stefan Struve	2	24
17	Shawn Jordan	2	10
17	Walt Harris	2	16
17	Jailton Almeida	2	9
17	Waldo Cortes-Acosta	2	14
17	Brando Pericic	2	3
17	Mario Pinto	2	4
31	Mark Kerr	1	4
31	Dwayne Cason	1	2
31	David Abbott	1	8
31	Ron Waterman	1	4
31	Pedro Rizzo	1	14
31	Vladimir Matyushenko	1	3
31	Gan McGee	1	4
31	Jonathan Wiezorek	1	1
31	Branden Lee Hinkle	1	2
31	Marcio Cruz	1	4
31	Paul Buentello	1	6
31	Tom Murphy	1	1
31	Jake O'Brien	1	5
31	Brandon Vera	1	7
31	Eddie Sanchez	1	6
31	Antoni Hardonk	1	8
31	Gabriel Gonzaga	1	22
31	Pat Barry	1	12
31	Jon Madsen	1	5
31	Dave Herman	1	5
31	Roy Nelson	1	19
31	Anthony Hamilton	1	10
31	Jared Rosholt	1	8
31	Timothy Johnson	1	7
31	Cyril Asker	1	5
31	Daniel Spitz	1	4
31	Chris de la Rocha	1	4
31	Augusto Sakai	1	9
31	Francis Ngannou	1	14
31	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	1	15
31	Tom Aspinall	1	10
31	Tai Tuivasa	1	19
31	Ciryl Gane	1	14
31	Alexandr Romanov	1	10
31	Don'Tale Mayes	1	12
31	Sergei Pavlovich	1	12
31	Josh Parisian	1	7
31	Chris Barnett	1	6
31	Alexander Volkov	1	19
31	Parker Porter	1	8
31	Ante Delija	1	3
31	Tanner Boser	1	10
31	Joel Faglier	1	1

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