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Most ground and pound knockouts in UFC lightweight history

Roger Huerta and Joe Lauzon and Gregor Gillespie share the UFC lightweight records for most ground and pound knockouts with 3 ground and pound KO/TKOs.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#FighterGround and pound KO/TKOsFights
1 Roger Huerta 3 8
1 Joe Lauzon 3 27
1 Gregor Gillespie 3 8
1 Jalin Turner 3 13
1 Arman Tsarukyan 3 13
6 BJ Penn 2 16
6 Kenny Florian 2 12
6 Ramsey Nijem 2 9
6 Jason Saggo 2 6
6 Paul Felder 2 14
6 Diego Ferreira 2 18
6 Grant Dawson 2 11
6 Steve Garcia 2 4
6 Jai Herbert 2 11
6 King Green 2 30
6 Francisco Prado 2 4
6 Benoit Saint Denis 2 12
6 Terrance McKinney 2 14
6 Mauricio Ruffy 2 6
20 Jack Nilson 1 1
20 Tito Ortiz 1 2
20 Kevin Jackson 1 1
20 Laverne Clark 1 4
20 Marcelo Mello 1 1
20 Jens Pulver 1 9
20 Caol Uno 1 10
20 Josh Thomson 1 7
20 Matt Wiman 1 18
20 Frankie Edgar 1 13
20 Marcus Aurelio 1 6
20 Kurt Pellegrino 1 11
20 Jeremy Stephens 1 18
20 Corey Hill 1 3
20 Clay Guida 1 30
20 Melvin Guillard 1 20
20 Kyle Bradley 1 3
20 Joe Stevenson 1 13
20 Gleison Tibau 1 27
20 Paul Kelly 1 6
20 Michael Johnson 1 28
20 Donald Cerrone 1 23
20 Thiago Tavares 1 14
20 Danny Castillo 1 14
20 John Cholish 1 3
20 Takanori Gomi 1 13
20 Tim Means 1 4
20 Khabib Nurmagomedov 1 12
20 Edson Barboza 1 25
20 Abel Trujillo 1 11
20 Erik Koch 1 5
20 Norman Parke 1 9
20 Bryan Barberena 1 2
20 Johnny Case 1 6
20 Mairbek Taisumov 1 9
20 Stevie Ray 1 11
20 Francisco Trinaldo 1 21
20 Rafael Dos Anjos 1 25
20 Joaquim Silva 1 12
20 Kevin Lee 1 16
20 Jim Miller 1 44
20 Nik Lentz 1 17
20 Alex Oliveira 1 3
20 Alexander Volkanovski 1 3
20 Scott Holtzman 1 13
20 Damir Hadzovic 1 10
20 Desmond Green 1 7
20 Joel Alvarez 1 9
20 Luis Pena 1 7
20 Mark Madsen 1 6
20 Uros Medic 1 3
20 Mateusz Gamrot 1 14
20 Rongzhu 1 7
20 Jamie Mullarkey 1 13
20 Matt Frevola 1 12
20 Drew Dober 1 25
20 Gabriel Benitez 1 5
20 Anshul Jubli 1 3
20 Yanal Ashmouz 1 4
20 Charles Oliveira 1 25
20 Nikolas Motta 1 7
20 Renato Moicano 1 11
20 Manuel Torres 1 7
20 Paddy Pimblett 1 9
20 Mason Jones 1 8
20 Rafa Garcia 1 12
20 Alexander Hernandez 1 16
20 Chris Padilla 1 6
20 Fares Ziam 1 12
20 Darrius Flowers 1 2
20 Quillan Salkilld 1 6
20 Tommy Gantt 1 2
20 Rafael Fiziev 1 13
20 Tofiq Musayev 1 2
20 Mateusz Rebecki 1 8
20 Mandel Nallo 1 2

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