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Most ground and pound knockouts in UFC middleweight history

Evan Tanner and Michal Oleksiejczuk share the UFC middleweight records for most ground and pound knockouts with 4 ground and pound KO/TKOs.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#FighterGround and pound KO/TKOsFights
1 Evan Tanner 4 12
1 Michal Oleksiejczuk 4 11
3 Matt Lindland 3 11
3 Yushin Okami 3 18
3 Jorge Rivera 3 15
3 Jack Hermansson 3 18
3 Dusko Todorovic 3 11
3 Edmen Shahbazyan 3 16
9 Jason MacDonald 2 14
9 Anderson Silva 2 21
9 Michael Bisping 2 24
9 Mark Munoz 2 14
9 Dongi Yang 2 5
9 Alan Belcher 2 13
9 Yoel Romero 2 13
9 Elias Theodorou 2 11
9 Sam Alvey 2 16
9 Uriah Hall 2 19
9 Luke Rockhold 2 10
9 Derek Brunson 2 21
9 Gegard Mousasi 2 11
9 Marc-Andre Barriault 2 17
9 Nassourdine Imavov 2 11
9 Gregory Rodrigues 2 14
9 Joe Pyfer 2 8
9 Anthony Hernandez 2 13
9 Sean Strickland 2 15
9 Cody Brundage 2 15
9 Cam Rowston 2 3
30 Tulio Palhares 1 1
30 Tito Ortiz 1 2
30 Jeremy Horn 1 10
30 Phil Baroni 1 9
30 Ivan Salaverry 1 7
30 Tony Fryklund 1 3
30 David Loiseau 1 9
30 Joe Riggs 1 5
30 Diego Sanchez 1 1
30 Chris Leben 1 22
30 Josh Koscheck 1 1
30 Kendall Grove 1 13
30 Patrick Cote 1 12
30 Wilson Gouveia 1 3
30 CB Dollaway 1 19
30 Aaron Simpson 1 9
30 Nate Quarry 1 10
30 Gerald Harris 1 4
30 Mario Miranda 1 4
30 Rich Attonito 1 3
30 Kyle Noke 1 5
30 Nate Marquardt 1 23
30 Vitor Belfort 1 13
30 Jared Hamman 1 4
30 Brian Stann 1 6
30 Francisco Trinaldo 1 1
30 Constantinos Philippou 1 9
30 Eddie Gordon 1 4
30 Chris Weidman 1 18
30 Vitor Miranda 1 6
30 Garreth McLellan 1 5
30 Rafael Natal 1 17
30 Daniel Kelly 1 10
30 Jacare Souza 1 15
30 Tim Boetsch 1 17
30 Paulo Costa 1 10
30 Thiago Santos 1 15
30 Khalid Murtazaliev 1 1
30 Brendan Allen 1 18
30 Maki Pitolo 1 5
30 Bruno Silva 1 11
30 Andre Petroski 1 13
30 Jared Cannonier 1 14
30 Denis Tiuliulin 1 6
30 Roman Dolidze 1 11
30 Eryk Anders 1 15
30 Dricus Du Plessis 1 11
30 Claudio Ribeiro 1 4
30 Nursulton Ruziboev 1 6
30 Paul Craig 1 4
30 Christian Leroy Duncan 1 11
30 Ryan Loder 1 3
30 Mansur Abdul-Malik 1 6
30 Marco Tulio 1 4
30 Azamat Bekoev 1 4
30 Ikram Aliskerov 1 6
30 Kyle Daukaus 1 10
30 Robert Bryczek 1 4
30 Ateba Gautier 1 6
30 Gilbert Urbina 1 2
30 Roman Kopylov 1 13

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